Anubis
No Lifer
my College had no caps period
and neither does my home cable line
80 gigs in 3 days, and no call from them tells me thet dont care
Anubis
No Lifer
nope small school, 2200 students
and my home cable line is about 3x as fast as the connection they let us have
i speed test here at like 2800k/s and at school the fastest i ever saw it was 900k/s
my upload is slower tho schools was about 1500 mine is about 300
Anubis
No Lifer
Hehe, I just downloaded 120GB last night at an average speed of around 5MBps (yes, Megabytes, and that can get as high as seven or eight). We also have a bandwidth policy of 5GB upload + download total from Monday to Sunday night, but we also have a DC hub that is an on-campus computer with other on-campus people connected, meaning none of that counts toward the bandwidth usage 
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SarcasticDwarf
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Which college are you at? I was on campus at Oshkosh last semester and the entire resnet system SUCKED, but thankfully I am off campus this semester.
Teehee as long as you don't violate copyrights, MIT gives you free reign online. Unlimited access baby. I can't even benchmark what my bandwidth is since its always larger than the testing server. I'd estimate around 40mbit though
If it is anything like my university, they have a database that shows what port on the switch goes to which jack, and where that jack is located. Back when I was in IS&T Networking, we could tell you what the last file you transferred was... which led to several interesting conversations with people about users FTPing porn. But I digress. It takes about 45 seconds between when a Networking member looks at your bandwidth usage to when they send a "shut" command to the switch. After which, you can enjoy your lack of internet service until they decide to turn it on. And requests for restoration of network access to people who have ignored warnings can get "lost" extremely easily.
Seriously, fighting IS&T is pretty stupid. They have your name (literally). They have your jack number. They have your port number on the switch/router. They know which room you are in. They know your IP. They know your MAC. You think you are going to win... how? Your bandwidth probably hasnt been limited yet because they are still busy showing profs that in order to use their laptop and the network in a classroom, they need to plug their ethernet cable into the jack labelled "Network", and not into the side of the thermostat (yes, I did have to show several teachers that... yes, the classroom thermostats do have RJ45 jacks, but those are for programming them, not network access). After they get back to normal, they will see your connection, see that you have been warned, see that you have not lowered your usage, and throttle your connection. If not kill it.
Now, if you dont like your campus bandwidth restrictions, go complain to the president. IS&T sets caps because they want to provide useable connections to everyone. Increase the amount of bandwidth the university purchases, and IS&T will raise the caps, if not remove them.
Originally posted by: Chronoshock
Teehee as long as you don't violate copyrights, MIT gives you free reign online. Unlimited access baby. I can't even benchmark what my bandwidth is since its always larger than the testing server. I'd estimate around 40mbit though
Talk to someone who was in the dorms at Case Western. An individual Gigabit connection for every person in the dorms, and a pipe to the outside to back it up.
wow thats some ghetto policies there; the WOW stress test beta is 2GB+; you wouldnt't be able to d/l it!
at least we dont live in australia; 5GB per MONTH or so?
at least we dont live in australia; 5GB per MONTH or so?
i'm glad when i was in the dorms crazy low quotas like that weren't in place yet.
these days i do ~5GB down a day, ~3GB up a day.
these days i do ~5GB down a day, ~3GB up a day.
Originally posted by: Chronoshock
Teehee as long as you don't violate copyrights, MIT gives you free reign online. Unlimited access baby. I can't even benchmark what my bandwidth is since its always larger than the testing server. I'd estimate around 40mbit though
Nice feeling isn't it?
Connecting from Senior House here...Blech, i think i was limited to 6GBs a week as well. Needless to say, i violated that and they shut off my connection for about a week.
I had a friend that violated it twice! First offense is a week off. Second is also a week, but you need to speak to a peer review board in order for it to be reactivated. Third offense gets you kicked out of the dorms. Lame huh?
I had a friend that violated it twice! First offense is a week off. Second is also a week, but you need to speak to a peer review board in order for it to be reactivated. Third offense gets you kicked out of the dorms. Lame huh?
Policies like these are serious "bullshit" . Universities need to suck it up and freaking buy fatter pipes. I agree that there need to be limits if the university is trying to serve 200 kids on a T1, but the real issue is that they need to buy bigger pipes. For 10,000-40,000 $ a year they can afford to
Edit: they *should* be able to afford it at least
Edit: they *should* be able to afford it at least
the UC schools have super fat pipes, but still have some insane quotas like 3 or 5gb a week. heh.
Please tell me how the HELL are you kiddies are downloading in excess of 5 gigabytes per DAY???? Good lord in the morning, I could've sworn that the tuition money that you're paying (or your parents in some cases) is going towards an education. Not towards you downloading every mp3,movie,etc. that you can get your hands on. I just don't get it, I have a high speed connection and I download game demos (have to d/l the WoW stress test yet), the occasional linux ISO and some movies. On average I download a few gigabytes per month but not PER DAY. Frankly I kindof hope that the OP not only gets his connection yanked for a week but they also ban his computer from wireless access as well, it really wouldn't be too hard to do you know.
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