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I'm living in a dorm w/ a 1 gig (a week) bandwidth restriction.

College Internet can suck. Back when I was dorming, the college constantly throttled wow. I asked them if I could install my own dsl line at the dorm(impossible). I even tried paying them extra money so they could prioritize wow for me(wouldn't accept 75 dollars/month).
 
Originally posted by: Hacp
College Internet can suck. Back when I was dorming, the college constantly throttled wow. I asked them if I could install my own dsl line at the dorm(impossible). I even tried paying them extra money so they could prioritize wow for me(wouldn't accept 75 dollars/month).
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You were willing to pay an extra $75/month so you could wow?

*facepalm*
 
Originally posted by: Hacp
College Internet can suck. Back when I was dorming, the college constantly throttled wow. I asked them if I could install my own dsl line at the dorm(impossible). I even tried paying them extra money so they could prioritize wow for me(wouldn't accept 75 dollars/month).
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Sucked for you. My college internet in the dorm was a 7/7 connection with no bandwidth cap as far as I knew.

Now, my connection in the lab I work in (same school) has a 65-100mbps connection down and about 10mbps up. 🙂
 
1gb for how long? If it's 1gb a day you will probably be okay assuming all you are doing is streaming and gaming. If it's 1gb/month you're totally fucked.
 
Get a program called samurize. You can track your total uploaded and downloaded. You can also track yoru current upload speed and download speed.

I'm not sure what 1 gig bandwidth means. Is that just 1 gig used total? 1 gig downloaded, 1 gig uploaded??

When I was in undergrad there was a daily upload cap so I figured out roughly how much that equaled in terms of kb/s in 24 hours and made sure I always stayed below that. It was fairly easy as long as you capped your BT upload rate.
 
Yeah I'd download a bandwidth meter to get more accurate numbers, but in general, web browsing uses next to no bandwidth. Streaming high quality SD video is probably 1-2Mbps average, but depends on the service. Gaming uses negligible amounts of bandwidth. Obviously P2P and other heavy downloading you will approach any limits quickly.
 
Back in my day, dorm internet was the best, fastest internet connection you could get! I had 7 megabits up and down and they weren't port nazis about it either!

Eventually the guy living next to me (I was in a single room) torrented so much that they issued a warning and had him throttled, but it took a lot of provocation. I torrented as well but I capped my upload to 30 kb/s and they never did anything to me.

This was 2002-2004 by the way. Apparently I went through college at just the right time - late enough to get insane free internet, early enough to avoid the bandwidth patrols. Man, in 2002, 7 megabits was INSANE.

BTW, 1 GB/mo is absolutely retarded. Browse youtube for a few days or even just update your computer a few times and you'll hit that limit before too long.
 
either 1gb a day or 1gb a month totally sucks -
it would be OK if its 30gb per month, (im on a 25gb package, Have to watch what I do but its acceptable) but 1gb a day? I mean what.. if a file is 1.1gb you have to split it over two days?
 
It is probably 1GB upload limitation per day.

I'm at VT and we have, I believe, a 640MB upload limit per day. If you go over, you basically get a slap on the wrist and have a 24 hour period where you can't screw up again. If you go over again, then you get a nice happy note from our Communications Network Services.

I don't believe there is any download restriction. Obviously if we have something absurd then they will figure out why - but I have never had any problems with downloading multiple large files (Student Software - Vista is 4GB, Office is 3GB etc...)

-Kevin
 
I would be sure to use something like AdBlock to remove large images from any sites you frequent.
Of course, images are probably not much of a concern if you are streaming audio/video.
 
Originally posted by: irishScott
Originally posted by: Hacp
College Internet can suck. Back when I was dorming, the college constantly throttled wow. I asked them if I could install my own dsl line at the dorm(impossible). I even tried paying them extra money so they could prioritize wow for me(wouldn't accept 75 dollars/month).
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You were willing to pay an extra $75/month so you could wow?

*facepalm*
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Your parents are giving you far too much money.
 
Originally posted by: Corbett
Still no response from OP.

He must had hit his bandwidth limit!
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You should also look into where the 1gb is measured. If its measured at the router configured for internet access, that means you have unlimited internal and anything like gaming can be done on the LAN with no restrictions. Otherwise, if its measured, say, on the switch that the jacks are plugged into, you're screwed either way.
 
Originally posted by: Hacp
College Internet can suck. Back when I was dorming, the college constantly throttled wow. I asked them if I could install my own dsl line at the dorm(impossible). I even tried paying them extra money so they could prioritize wow for me(wouldn't accept 75 dollars/month).
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They should have done you a favor and banned all wow traffic.
 
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