Would my university know if I put a router in my room

[eflat]

Is there any way my university would be able to tell that I am running a router? I would like to be able to hook two computers up to the internet simultaneously so I can plugging and unplugging the cable all the time.

Technically it is against the policy, and the guys down at the "ResNet" office know me well and would make me disconnect it just because they think it would be funny if they realize it.. but will they?

 

[MustangSVT]

hmm.. i dont think they would know, but this is a n00 b opinion

 

[necine]

LOL... you go to Rutgers. I went there. Nah, you can put a router in your room no problem.

Edit: I hooked up 2 computers and an xbox.

 

[scorpmatt]

the extra bandwidth pulling from your single port might be noticed, smart thing, dont do it.

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug
Is there any way my university would be able to tell that I am running a router? I would like to be able to hook two computers up to the internet simultaneously so I can plugging and unplugging the cable all the time.

Technically it is against the policy, and the guys down at the "ResNet" office know me well and would make me disconnect it just because they think it would be funny if they realize it.. but will they?

Can't you go wireless?

Or would THAT brake the rules as well?

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: necine
LOL... you go to Rutgers. I went there. Nah, you can put a router in your room no problem.

Edit: I hooked up 2 computers and an xbox.

I don't go to Rutgers

My dad did, though.

 

[UncleWai]

I don't think they will know.
If you are paranoid, have one computer that turns on 24/7 as a server and crossover cable to give internet access to the other one?

 

[Platypus]

Clone your MAC address to the router.

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: scorpmatt
the extra bandwidth pulling from your single port might be noticed, smart thing, dont do it.

Extra bandwith? What do you mean? I would be doing the same amout of itnernet activity -- it would just be spread over two computers (I use both a Mac and PC now)

 

[scorpmatt]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug
Is there any way my university would be able to tell that I am running a router? I would like to be able to hook two computers up to the internet simultaneously so I can plugging and unplugging the cable all the time.

Technically it is against the policy, and the guys down at the "ResNet" office know me well and would make me disconnect it just because they think it would be funny if they realize it.. but will they?

Can't you go wireless?

Or would THAT brake the rules as well?

Plugging in a wireless router is breaking the rules

 

[MustangSVT]

Originally posted by: scorpmatt
the extra bandwidth pulling from your single port might be noticed, smart thing, dont do it.

:roll:

wtf?

 

[Mo0o]

Dont know about a router but we have a wireless hub in our room and it works fine

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug
Is there any way my university would be able to tell that I am running a router? I would like to be able to hook two computers up to the internet simultaneously so I can plugging and unplugging the cable all the time.

Technically it is against the policy, and the guys down at the "ResNet" office know me well and would make me disconnect it just because they think it would be funny if they realize it.. but will they?

Can't you go wireless?

Or would THAT brake the rules as well?

Well that would break the rules in a big way. A router if nobody noticed nobody would care.

 

[scorpmatt]

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug

Originally posted by: scorpmatt
the extra bandwidth pulling from your single port might be noticed, smart thing, dont do it.

Extra bandwith? What do you mean? I would be doing the same amout of itnernet activity -- it would just be spread over two computers (I use both a Mac and PC now)

If both machines are both using the internet at the same time, there will be twice as much activity on your port than normal (sorry, bandwidth was the wrong word)

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
I don't think they will know.
If you are paranoid, have one computer that turns on 24/7 as a server and crossover cable to give internet access to the other one?

I am, thankfully, not that knowledgeable about computers

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: scorpmatt

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug

Originally posted by: scorpmatt
the extra bandwidth pulling from your single port might be noticed, smart thing, dont do it.

Extra bandwith? What do you mean? I would be doing the same amout of itnernet activity -- it would just be spread over two computers (I use both a Mac and PC now)

If both machines are both using the internet at the same time, there will be twice as much activity on your port than normal (sorry, bandwidth was the wrong word)

Well since I only have two hands that would be difficult. All I use it for is internet browsing.

 

[necine]

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug

Originally posted by: necine
LOL... you go to Rutgers. I went there. Nah, you can put a router in your room no problem.

Edit: I hooked up 2 computers and an xbox.

I don't go to Rutgers

My dad did, though.

ResNet is the name of Rutgers network??? Where do you go to school?

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Clone your MAC address to the router.

Could you elaborate? The guy down at the "ResNet" office was getting all excited about my MAC address the other day when my internet stopped working.

I kept telling him, no, it's a PC, not a MAC! Lol.

 

[KevinF]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
I don't think they will know.
If you are paranoid, have one computer that turns on 24/7 as a server and crossover cable to give internet access to the other one?

That's the way it has to done at Pitt.

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: necine

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug

Originally posted by: necine
LOL... you go to Rutgers. I went there. Nah, you can put a router in your room no problem.

Edit: I hooked up 2 computers and an xbox.

I don't go to Rutgers

My dad did, though.

ResNet is the name of Rutgers network??? Where do you go to school?

Oh, it is also the name of Humboldt State University in Northern California (this is to say the real northern california, not the bay area)

I imagine a lot of schools use the name "ResNet" for their on campus internet.

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: UncleWai
I don't think they will know.
If you are paranoid, have one computer that turns on 24/7 as a server and crossover cable to give internet access to the other one?

I'm paranoid to the extend that I do not want to waste $20 on a router that they are going to make me unhook

I'm not in danger of having my internet taken away or anything.

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: KevinF

Originally posted by: UncleWai
I don't think they will know.
If you are paranoid, have one computer that turns on 24/7 as a server and crossover cable to give internet access to the other one?

That's the way it has to done at Pitt.

How do they catch on if you use a router? Why do they give a damn anyhow if you are not using any more bandwith?

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: CitizenDoug

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Clone your MAC address to the router.

Could you elaborate? The guy down at the "ResNet" office was getting all excited about my MAC address the other day when my internet stopped working.

I kept telling him, no, it's a PC, not a MAC! Lol.

lol...

a MAC address is a hardware code burned into the firmware of your NIC. It is a hex number unique to your card, unique so routing can actually work. I'm not going to explain the process of routing to you but I've give you enough info... the code can be entered into your router so as far as your resnet is concerned, the packets are hitting that MAC address (your nic, so it thinks) yet your router handles all internal network routing on the inside without their knowledge.

To be honest it's not even neccesary but if you're super paranoid it might be a good option.

IM me if you want more in depth, this is my quick 101

 

[thelanx]

My school bans routers because people would set them up wrong and plug the wan cable into a lan port and start assigning ips to people, taking down entire subnets. As long as you hooked it up right they didn't care, so you might wanna talk "unofficially" with some of your resnet friends.

 

[amdskip]

Yes they can tell you have a router hooked up with or without a cloned mac.

thelanx is right too, might cause a rouge dhcp but if they network is setup, it would detect it and turn it off before that happened. It sure isn't much fun tracking people down who have one set up.