How much bandwidth should I feel safe using on campus?

[archcommus]

And where should I cap myself at when I'm on their networks.

 

[aplefka]

As much as you want until they warn you?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: aplefka
As much as you want until they warn you?

Ain't it the truth....ain't it the fvking truth

 

[Sentinel]

how would you have unlimited amounts?

 

[91TTZ]

All of it.

 

[her209]

Start your own ATOT FTP server!!!

 

[amdskip]

I used all I wanted on my campus, no one gets shut off unless they are causing network disruptions.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: aplefka
As much as you want until they warn you?

:thumbsup:

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: aplefka
As much as you want until they warn you?

Sounds good here. What are you going to be hosting? *rubs hands together*

 

[archcommus]

There's no chance they'd be asshats and shut me off without warning?

And what kind of monitoring can they do?

 

[Umberger]

read the internet access policy. as far as total transfer, I have unlimited down, 650MB up in the 24 hour period between midnight and midnight. (as opposed to a constantly rotating 24 hour limit)

 

[blodhi74]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: aplefka
As much as you want until they warn you?

Ain't it the truth....ain't it the fvking truth

:laugh:

 

[dc]

depends on your school, do they have posted caps/limits?

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Umberger
read the internet access policy. as far as total transfer, I have unlimited down, 650MB up in the 24 hour period between midnight and midnight. (as opposed to a constantly rotating 24 hour limit)

Hmm....where might I find such a document, somewhere online? I'm not there until end of August.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: dc
depends on your school, do they have posted caps/limits?

Wish I knew!

 

[BurnItDwn]

I dunno what they are like currently, but When I lived on campus and used the campus network, (fall of 1998, spring of 1999) .. I was using 16+ GB of upstream bandwidth and around 1 or 2 GB of downstream bandwidth per day. I never got in any kind of trouble. (I was running a decent sized FTP site with over 200 active accounts at the time) ... heh.

I had 14 GB of space total (1 x 10gb drive, and my 4.3gb quantum bigfoot), and was running serv-u on a windows box with a T3 (though the infrastructure in the dorms was 10mbit .. and I got less then that.) Sometimes I miss running an FTP site and getting all the best stuff uploaded to me by users, though it never stopped me from purchasing CDs. It just allowed me to have a MUCH larger music collection that my budget would otherwise allow for.) I used to use my CDburner a LOT back in those days ... stuff rarely lasted more than 4 or 5 days on my drive. Nowadays, I rip all the CDs I buy still, however, I keep em on my drive for a long long long time.


FOR YOUR SITUATION ....
I would probably avoid running an FTP that will waste 100GB of bandwidth every week. They will not like that.

I would start off using less bandwidth then you think they will care about, and then slowly work your way up until they complain.

Then back off by 10% and make that your top bandwidth usage ....

 

[GhettoFob]

69 jiggabytes!

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: GhettoFob
69 jiggabytes!

hah ... I remember back in like the 486 days, my dad would alway speak of "giggabytes". He had a 130MB drive in his 486, and couldn't imagine ever needing that much.

Then, someone changed the name to gigabytes ... grrrrrrr
(Yes I know, we were just mispronouncing before ...)

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: archcommus
There's no chance they'd be asshats and shut me off without warning?

And what kind of monitoring can they do?

They can and will monitor everything. Whether they do anything depends on whether you draw attention to yourself.

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: aplefka
As much as you want until they warn you?

werd!

Last fall, I got my account suspended for wasting too much bandwidth so I believe the bandwidth was around 100gb. :Q

GO RIT!

 

[2cpuminimum]

download all you want, but don't allow uploads that will get you in trouble.

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: 2cpuminimum
download all you want, but don't allow uploads that will get you in trouble.

heh it's like download music songs but don't upload them.

 

[archcommus]

Why would you say to download all I want but not upload?

Actually, Napster has a deal with my school (maybe many or all schools, don't really know), where any student can get full Napster service with access to a million tracks blah blah blah for only $20 for the whole school year. Not a bad deal at all, but music wouldn't be the majority of my downloading anyway.

Basically, I'm trying to decide what I should download at school and what I should download at home through RDC and put on my HDD when I come home.

 

[acemcmac]

Go make friends with the network controllers, duh!

Back when I worked for my university's network administration, I was once ordered to disconect my own computer

Guess what I didn't do

 

[TraumaRN]

Well I remember this year in my dorm at my university the entire university is covered with wireless 802.11G....and they had 4, 24 port wireless routers on my floor alone...except only 6 people lived on the floor, need to say I was sucking down bandwidth like you wouldnt believe, basically when I moved back home to 4Mbit cable my internet was actually slower....kinda freaky stuff