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It will be nigh impossible to get cable modem or DSL to your dorm room, just because the school will fight you every step of the way, telling you to use their connection.
If your dorm is anything like mine, you'll have a 10Megabit connection (divide by 8, means that you have 1.25MB/sec download rates, theoretically). In practice, I get around 700 to 800 kilobytes/second downloading from high-bandwidth places (SourceForge, Microsoft, etc.).
As for the 20$ a month, that's the first that I've ever heard of a college charging an additional fee to use their network connection. The way I've seen it is a misc. fee added on to room and board called "Technology Services" which includes TV, phone, and network.
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