University Internet Cap

[Firsttime]

If you can't handle the "anti-intellectual policy" you're free to get your own place and pay for your own internet service. Would you also complain about them preventing elementary or high school students in the same way? The school is there for learning. It is not their responsibility to care about you being able to play video games online.

I don't understand. If the high school or elementary school students have progressed through the necessary educational levels to be able to attend my school then yes I would be upset if my school declined to take them as students because of their age, that's dumb. Whether they would be able to live on campus with students much older then themselves is another thing.

It has nothing to do with my ability to "game." Much more to do with my free access to information. School's, universities in particular, should be about learning. The current #1 source of information and learning material is the internet, if my access to it was somehow limited to only a certain amount I would be upset.

And by the way as their customer and product my school does care about my experience here, and if the students wanted to play video games I have no doubt that my school would ensure that our network was able to handle all the traffic we could throw at them. As it is other things are generally more important to our student body.

 

[RedArmy]

So what were you even arguing against the cap for? People on campus will have plenty of chances to access places other than the dorm, and people off campus will likely have their own internet.

Did you miss the point where I said you can't install software on computers in the pods? How is anyone supposed to do work which requires you to do such a thing when the policy doesn't allow it? The whole reason is you would have to do all the work in the dorms on your own computer.

 

[minendo]

Did you miss the point where I said you can't install software on computers in the pods? How is anyone supposed to do work which requires you to do such a thing when the policy doesn't allow it? The whole reason is you would have to do all the work in the dorms on your own computer.

Does your university require that each student have their own computer? If not, I am willing to be there are open hours at computer labs which will contain computers that have the necessary software installed to complete any courses required by the university.

 

[RedCOMET]

Is nobody else bothered by large DC++ hub on the campus network??? I'm sure that it is not filled with all linux distros. If it has other "media" on it, then instead of copyright infringement with the rest of the internet its just being contained and what appears to condoned by the university community (students / faculty /staff) . Seems like the internet cap is just for network stability / reduce bandwidth cost and not really to help prevent / reduce copyright infringements.

Again, this is just an assumption that the DC++ hub might* contain some copyrighted material that is not authorized for distribution in this manner.

 

[Anubis]

find out who runs your DC++ server
have them turn off external connections so its internal only
make a deal with IT to have internal traffic not count toward the quota
profit

it whats we did when i was in school to get around xfer limits and bandwidth limiting, they let DC++ run at stupid speeds provided we didn't allow anyone from off campus to connect to it

 

[rockyct]

find out who runs your DC++ server
have them turn off external connections so its internal only
make a deal with IT to have internal traffic not count toward the quota
profit

it whats we did when i was in school to get around xfer limits and bandwidth limiting, they let DC++ run at stupid speeds provided we didn't allow anyone from off campus to connect to it

Someone did that at my school a few years ago (2003) but they killed the hub once they found out about it. Then I found a UCLA hosted DC++ hub with 70 TBs. That was awesome until UCLA took it down. There also was no packet shaping at the time but the next year they installed Packeteer or something. A couple years later they even made people install cisco clean access on every computer. I was out of the dorms by then, but I felt sorry for all the freshmen.

 

[SLCentral]

find out who runs your DC++ server
have them turn off external connections so its internal only
make a deal with IT to have internal traffic not count toward the quota
profit

it whats we did when i was in school to get around xfer limits and bandwidth limiting, they let DC++ run at stupid speeds provided we didn't allow anyone from off campus to connect to it

Thats what the situation is now. The DC++ server, AFAIK, is hosted by a girl living on campus, and all traffic on it is internal, so we aren't charged for it. There's a lot more to the internet than piracy though, and I find myself going over the 15GB cap almost constantly (or at least cutting it very close) doing LEGAL things online.

To answer another posters question, yes, this is a private college.

 

[SLCentral]

It has nothing to do with my ability to "game." Much more to do with my free access to information. School's, universities in particular, should be about learning. The current #1 source of information and learning material is the internet, if my access to it was somehow limited to only a certain amount I would be upset.

This is the argument I've been trying to make. This is an institution of LEARNING...putting internet caps at a place like this is just bizarre.