I've noticed all the past two semesters, my FTP Transfer speed has really started to degrade. I grabbed several distributions of linux (RH, Mandrake, SUSE) in a couple weeks, then when I finally got around to installing Mandrake, I decideded I needed the third CD. I went to get it from the FTP where I had gotten the images for the first two CDs, and to my surprise, I couldn't download faster then about 5 k/sec. I tried EVERY other mirror on mandrake's site, same results. I might start out at 10k/sec, but within a few minutes, I'd drop to below 5k/sec. I finally found someone who had put it up on their webserver, so I downloaded it from there (over the web). I continued to notice the very very poor FTP transfer speeds when I'd upload or download something from my personal web page. My FTP directory is quite cluttered, with probably 20 folders and 50 files in the root, and there were times it'd take me 5 minutes just to display a directory listing.
I know my university monitors traffic, when I was running Win2k (and BlackIce still worked :|), I'd get daily scans from a computer on their network. When I'd download something from microsoft or a similarly fast site, I'd get hit by a special computer doing a portscan on me. Most filesharing programs are blocked here, but my roomate last year found one that wasn't. He downloaded 300mb of mp3s in like 12 hours, within two days that filesharing program was added to the block list. I *know* they're monitoring traffic and blocking ports that are getting "abused"
I suspect they saw my several GB downloading spree and capped my FTP transfer over port 21. It doesn't matter what FTP I try to connect to, I can't download over 3k/sec now. I haven't tried FTP servers on other ports (not really had the need to, all the stuff I use is on the standard port), so I can't judge if it's just port 21 or not. Local FTP's (like the university one) are no problem at all, they come up just fine.
Is there any way I can verify this? I don't want to call EIT services and spout random accusations, only to find out it's something strange on my end. We have NO transfer limit that I'm aware of (never was warned about breaking it), and my linux distro downloading spree was back in November, I'd have thought any sort of temp cap for breaking the transfer limit would have expired). If I'm capped, I'm calling EIT Services and raising hell, it's near impossible for me to connect to my personal webserver or the webserver for some of the sites I maintain for a friend.
I know my university monitors traffic, when I was running Win2k (and BlackIce still worked :|), I'd get daily scans from a computer on their network. When I'd download something from microsoft or a similarly fast site, I'd get hit by a special computer doing a portscan on me. Most filesharing programs are blocked here, but my roomate last year found one that wasn't. He downloaded 300mb of mp3s in like 12 hours, within two days that filesharing program was added to the block list. I *know* they're monitoring traffic and blocking ports that are getting "abused"
I suspect they saw my several GB downloading spree and capped my FTP transfer over port 21. It doesn't matter what FTP I try to connect to, I can't download over 3k/sec now. I haven't tried FTP servers on other ports (not really had the need to, all the stuff I use is on the standard port), so I can't judge if it's just port 21 or not. Local FTP's (like the university one) are no problem at all, they come up just fine.
Is there any way I can verify this? I don't want to call EIT services and spout random accusations, only to find out it's something strange on my end. We have NO transfer limit that I'm aware of (never was warned about breaking it), and my linux distro downloading spree was back in November, I'd have thought any sort of temp cap for breaking the transfer limit would have expired). If I'm capped, I'm calling EIT Services and raising hell, it's near impossible for me to connect to my personal webserver or the webserver for some of the sites I maintain for a friend.