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Originally Posted by robbdn
Why is everyone being so harsh on inkriminator for downloading a ton of stuff? It is my humble opinion that his school's IT dept is being way too controlling of something that should be none of their business. Whatever happened to privacy rights? I know that while my school has blackholed all P2P programs, they also mind their own business about what you do download. I have downloaded over 10gb is one day on my campus network, and they don't say peep, and that's the way it should be. If they have the bandwidth, let people use it.
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I've gotten several calls and emails from people detailing the fact that the IT department should "mind its own business and just let students do whatever they want in their dorms." So I think it's great when i get calls from people complaining that the "internet doesn't work" and I get to quote the bandwidth hogs. I can't tell you how many times I've told people that the internet is fine; it's just that there are several hundred students hogging all the bandwidth. We have a 45Mb pipe. Everytime we upgrade it the students just use it all up. They're in their own vlan of course so it doesn't bother the fac/admin side.
I guarantee you the IT dept. doesn't give a rat's ass what you do in your dorm room but they do get tired of the constant calls from people complaining that the network is slow.
Also, there is no privacy on a campus. The campus owns the network ... they let you use it as a privilege.