NoCD Shenanigins

[suicidal_monkey]

Originally posted by Carr0t@Feb 9 2006, 01:00 PM
I believe our Resnet costs £60 a year, which means we have enough to cough up for some nice kit for it

When we had unlimited acess (to everything online really...on a chunky bandwidth) they used to occasionally send blanket letters round pleading for us to stop downloading so much stuff as it was costing them loads (more than our £30 each was covering anyway!) They used to give total download amounts to show how much stuff had been downloaded and I think my block could account for about half of it! Still what do they expect when they give you a commercial quality connection :whistle:

[A Twig]

Yeah its P2P but there arent firewalls for each block, so although Internet sharing gets you "disciplined" internal sharing isn't picked up on, and you can share with anyone anywhere on the Uni ResNet. Thus every evening from bout 6pm till 11pm its all clogged up. Given that the ResNet is included in our monthly rent of just under £300, I would hope that they could at least get in functioning properly all the time. <_<

[big-paddy]

Originally posted by Liberator@Feb 8 2006, 10:43 PM
PM on its way.

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Me 2 please

[Carr0t]

Originally posted by suicidal_monkey@Feb 9 2006, 02:08 PM
When we had unlimited acess (to everything online really...on a chunky bandwidth) they used to occasionally send blanket letters round pleading for us to stop downloading so much stuff as it was costing them loads (more than our £30 each was covering anyway!) They used to give total download amounts to show how much stuff had been downloaded and I think my block could account for about half of it! Still what do they expect when they give you a commercial quality connection :whistle:

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See, we realised our students wouldn't listen, so we just put blocks in place so they *couldn't* do it. Default deny on all outgoing traffic on the firewall/NAT, with a few known protocols (like ssh, and now Steam and WoW) allowed out. Internal sharing between blocks isn't as much of a problem now as it used to be, so we're not that bothered about it (also there's no chance of Paramount etc sending us copyright infringement notices as noone outside the block can see it). Mainly it's less of a problem due to the upgrading of our equipment. We used to be more bothered when people would complain about not being able to reach their central filestore, or the mail servers, or similar, because P2P was hammering the network into the floor.