06-09-2003, 07:42 AM | #1 (permalink) |
The GrandDaddy of them all!
Location: Austin, TX
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School Bandwidth
my future roommate had to go to the summer session @ UT and he told me waht was going on there.
they charge you $12/month (each person has his/her own outlet in the room) and you have a 3gb bandwidth. here the speed is like super fast, he said like 4mb or so. if you use over 3gb, you get switched over to a different server and the speed can get as low as 40k!! (AAAAAAAAH!!) and you can pay like 40bucks a month and get 12gb bandwidth. this is fucking weak as hell! gimme a break! i use up 3gb's in 3 days at my current rate (cable @ home). anyone know how colleges do this? and what about the secondary server you get switched to? and do colleges allow you to have a different isp ?? cuz i found dsl in austin for 30 bucks. or do they block that too?
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06-09-2003, 08:31 AM | #2 (permalink) |
Mencken
Location: College
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I'm at the University of Arkansas, and they pretty well let us do as we please. They only bitch when tons of people get on kazaa.
[edit: On the other hand, whatever we pay for access is no doubt hidden in our housing costs, so I can't comment as to how much it costs me. It could be $50 a month, but I somehow doubt it.]
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06-09-2003, 11:09 AM | #3 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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your college has to allow the ISP to have a point of demark to get into the building. It's their land so yes, they can say you cannot have another ISP, unless it's via the phone lines.
As far as speed... welcome to the REAL world.. (not that crappy MTV shit...) but even my Cable op limited my bandwidth recently and I had to get into a major fight with them over the cap, and I pay for UNLIMITED bandwidth and they capped me.
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06-09-2003, 12:20 PM | #4 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: Truro, Nova Scotia
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I suggest you get good with the network admin
But seriously, theres probably nothing you can do other then cutting back on your downloads. Or if you are roomed with someone unkown in the computer ways, get a router and use up one of your lines then switch to the other. About the 3gb in 3 days. Here in Nova Scotia I have heard of people getting there service pulled for doing stuff like that, cuz the college mostly thinks your either a MP3 server or worse. I can relate with the massive storage amounts I averaged 50+gb down / 30+gb up for 2 months in a row and my DSL service sent me a nasty e-mail saying that it was strike one (get to strike 3 and I get my service either cut / capped) which I think is VERY stupid, saying its uncapped then getting pissed when I use up too much..... Anyway, I would do what most people up here who need the bandwidth do, move into a apt with some friends and split on a Unlimited DSL / Cable service. |
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