In 1993 the University of Illinois campus had broadband at the level people have in their homes in 2017.

Compare the network speeds available on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus in 1993 (campus Ethernet LAN speeds to desktops and labs, and the campus/NCSA internet uplink, e.g. T1/T3) with typical US home broadband speeds in 2017 (e.g. average or median download speed from Akamai, Ookla or FCC reports). The claim is a rough comparison, so 'the level' means the same order of magnitude. True: the speeds available to campus users in 1993 were at or above roughly half the typical 2017 US home broadband speed. Mostly true: comparable only on one reasonable reading (e.g. desktop LAN speed matches, but the shared uplink per user was far lower). Mixed: comparable on some measures but clearly below on others. Mostly false: campus speeds were well under typical 2017 home speeds and match only an outdated or low-end home tier. False: campus speeds in 1993 were an order of magnitude or more below typical 2017 home broadband on every reasonable measure.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 20-755: The Internet Lecture 6: Programming the Internet - SlideServe SlideServe (hosting a CMU lecture by David O'Hallaron, Summer 1999) · 1999

   “In 1993, the Internet consisted of one backbone (NSFNET) that connected 13 sites via 45 Mbs T3 links.”

2. E2 20-755: The Internet Lecture 6: Programming the Internet - SlideServe SlideServe (hosting a CMU lecture by David O'Hallaron, Summer 1999) · 1999

   “Merit (Univ of Mich), NCSA (Illinois), Cornell Theory Center, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center”

3. E3 Retiring the NSFNET Backbone Service: Chronicling the End of an Era Merit Network, reprinted from ConneXions Vol. 10, No. 4 · April 1996

   “By the end of the year, Merit, SDSC, and NCSA were connected to an early T3 service and began testing the new T3 routers with real traffic.”

4. E4 [PDF] Q1 2017 State of the Internet - Connectivity Report | Akamai Akamai Technologies · 2017

   “Across the country, 42 of the 51 states saw average connection speeds above 15 Mbps, up from 34 states in the previous quarter.”

The evidence shows that NCSA was a site on the 1993 NSFNET backbone with 45 Mbps T3 links [E1][E2][E3] and that most US states averaged above 15 Mbps in Q1 2017 [E4]. It gives no figures for campus desktop speeds or per-user bandwidth, so it cannot tell which grade under the criteria applies.