Some info about college bandwidth

[GaiDaigoji]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
What! There's an extra 45 megabits that Pitt could theoretically purchase and they haven't done so? I'm outraged! Lucky CMU bastages.

ZV

What exactly does pitt have now adays? At the begining of the semester I was getting more or less unlimited upload speed but now it's all slow and i can barely send to anyone not on the pitt network.

 

[thomsbrain]

what does the school care? as long as the speeds for people remain resonable. they aren't paying by the gigabyte, they're just paying for the line. If it gets used more, then people are just getting their money's worth.

and 75 GB in 5 days isn't that bad. back in the napster days at the UC I went to, I upped close to 100GB in that time period. my roomie and I probably accounted for 50% of all worldwide internet traffic for 6 months. those were the good old days.

 

[DaWhim]

I should love my isp then.
I am going to college in the coming sept, darn.

 

[Chaotic42]

Just don't bring down all of the networks in the northern part of your state like I did in college...

 

[Kilrsat]

For a little info on traffic on a larger network, and why some kinds of filtering need to take place:

University of Wisconsin Network Statistics

Thanks to the installation of a packet shaping device, Kazaa, et al, usage is under control, but if you look at the 730d images (click on an image and it brings up a directory of more images), you start seeing that p2p traffic was taking up 50mbps up and down (It was even worse at one point, but those days are no longer available). That was back when all the dorms were limited to 10mb connections in each room.

Unregulated p2p traffic can be hell on a network, and really, I'm glad that they have started to really limit the traffic as general internet responsiveness has been greatly improved. The currect model has one set of limits from 6am - 6pm and then from 6pm - 6am they increase the p2p traffic limits. This way when most people need to do work, they can.

 

[Anubis]

hummm that sounds familiar. ive done about 75 gigs up in 5 days. that was a special occurence tho.

im guessing this is only traffic going outside the school network.

Currently ive uploaded well over 200+ gigs in teh past 2 weeks but its all internal through out Direct Connect HUB.

when you sau "outbound" traffic is limited to 1 gig. does that mean you cant DL more then 1 gig per day?? i break that just surfing teh net when im bored. and my school only has 12mbs for ~2200 comps

i wounder if i can convince my school to pick up that other 45mbps

 

[Looney]

ah nm

 

[anxman69]

University of Rochester is pretty generous -- we get 12gb outbound traffic per week and no limit on downloads. On-campus bandwidth does not contribute to totals.

-Ankur

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

ahhahahaha suckers.
50 gigs a day upload

edit: current upload: 750 kB/sec

 

[jacob0401]

MIT owns them all...

230-The server has sent 24,159.98 GB and received 919.03 GB since my last HD crash.
230-
230-This totals 25,079.02 GB of traffic since November 2, 2002 for my poor dorm network.

Note: Not my server...

 

[ReiAyanami]

considering they raise tuition at a rate several times inflation EVERY year or less, we the students deserve more until the provost and dean stop driving mercedes and BMW's

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
ahhahahaha suckers.
50 gigs a day upload

edit: current upload: 750 kB/sec

What's your IP? Would hotline@mpaa.org or piracy@riaa.org be interested?

 

[Zugzwang152]

i miss UW's phat connections, but i don't miss their nasty firewall, which kept even IRC firewall workarounds from working somehow...those shifty buggers have one tight firewall.

 

[Zugzwang152]

then again, i'm getting those fvcking messenger popups all the time now
:|:|:|:|:|:|

 

[dc]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
then again, i'm getting those fvcking messenger popups all the time now
:|:|:|:|:|:|

go disable messenger then. heh.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: dc

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
then again, i'm getting those fvcking messenger popups all the time now
:|:|:|:|:|:|

go disable messenger then. heh.

i'm spoiled being behind that baddass firewall...i saw a link to an AT FAQ about that stuff, but I haven't bothered to touch it yet, too busy burning data in anticipation of my hard drive farting again. *sigh*

 

[wasssup]

Originally posted by: Sensor
At Rutgers University <http://www.rutgers.edu>, we've had set bandwidth guidelines for two years now as the number of dorm rooms connected to the network was increased. With some-odd 50,000 students, I can only assume the bandwidth costs are astronomical.

Rutgers uses an automated tool that tracks your bandwidth usage each day. If the sum of the previous week's download is greater than 2GB or upload is greater than 500MB, you get shut off until the total bandwidth usage drops below the 2GB/500MB limit.

A university somewhere in the south-central has a great system, in my opinion, that when you surpass a designated bandwidth limit the firewalls kick you back to 64kbit/s up and down. This way, even if you go past your limit you'll still have internet access and can't call in to complain.

As much as I miss my free bandwidth and running Counter-Strike servers out of my room, I can understand where the Universities are coming from. Researchers, professors, and whoever else still need to use that bandwidth for relatively-important stuff, whereas Napster (the real bandwidth killer) was just an extra expense topped on budget cut after budget cut.

So who knows a hot deal on a personal T1 lease?

--Ed

are you sure rutgers doesn't throttle your bandwidth down if you've downloaded way too much? in the computer labs (busch, arc building) i used to download crazy amounts of stuff especially in the summer (700mb divx rips) in like 5-10mins, then burn to cd-r..however, soon after, i found my bandwidth to be horrible (i think it was around 3kb/s or so). I never bothered to ask why....