Comment UCI Bandwidth. Yup P2P Is Whack (Score 2, Interesting) 550
I used to live in the dorms last year. Even then they have had the bandwidth to all P2P networks limited to 2% of the total bandwidth. Of course you are going to have extremely slow speeds. However there are many alternatives that you should be well aware of. If you believe the extent of your music/movie/bootleg collection should be found on Kazaa then you haven't been tapping the correct resources. I myself was harassed many a time by the Residential Networking Admin, Ted Roberge. All of us who liked to use lots of bandwidth knew him well. Here is one of the many emails I have received from em.
>I am sending you a graph showing your IRC >bandwidth use for the last 24 hours. The graph >is primarily for IRC, not web surfing, e-mail >etc etc.
>I do not block or limit IRC use, however, I do >monitor the top users and as you are clearly >using more than your fair share of bandwidth, >especially your uploading to the internet, I am >asking you to exercise more concern for >bandwidth use and cut back considerably. Your >peak usage for irc consumes almost 10% of all >available bandwidth for the entire housing >network. Excessive bandwidth use affects all >users on the housing network. If this >continues, I will have no other choice but to >limit your bandwidth.
>Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
>Best
Figure it out pal...P2P is dead for us EDU's. If you want to get shit at good speeds use IRC, find some connections, get hooked up with a few ftps, serve as a dump. Of course all this must be done while still avoiding our lovely resnet admin, because he will harass you.
>I am sending you a graph showing your IRC >bandwidth use for the last 24 hours. The graph >is primarily for IRC, not web surfing, e-mail >etc etc.
>I do not block or limit IRC use, however, I do >monitor the top users and as you are clearly >using more than your fair share of bandwidth, >especially your uploading to the internet, I am >asking you to exercise more concern for >bandwidth use and cut back considerably. Your >peak usage for irc consumes almost 10% of all >available bandwidth for the entire housing >network. Excessive bandwidth use affects all >users on the housing network. If this >continues, I will have no other choice but to >limit your bandwidth.
>Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
>Best
Figure it out pal...P2P is dead for us EDU's. If you want to get shit at good speeds use IRC, find some connections, get hooked up with a few ftps, serve as a dump. Of course all this must be done while still avoiding our lovely resnet admin, because he will harass you.
