Comment bandwidth restrictions (Score 1) 525
I go to rose hulman (http://www.rose-hulman.edu)
the way they deal with it is they restrict the bandwidth for various services. for example, kazaa goes so slow it is almost not worht using. they also keep track of how much you download on MAC's registered to you, so if you go over 1GB in a day, or 1.5 in 2 days or something like that then you get a nice little letter from the it department. i dont think they actually charge you for going over though, they just take away your access if you do it too much :-)
but alas, as someone else pointed out mac addresses arent too hard to spoof if you have a router, are moderately clever, or just find some program to do it for you (arp poisioning, what?) ;-)
the way they deal with it is they restrict the bandwidth for various services. for example, kazaa goes so slow it is almost not worht using. they also keep track of how much you download on MAC's registered to you, so if you go over 1GB in a day, or 1.5 in 2 days or something like that then you get a nice little letter from the it department. i dont think they actually charge you for going over though, they just take away your access if you do it too much
but alas, as someone else pointed out mac addresses arent too hard to spoof if you have a router, are moderately clever, or just find some program to do it for you (arp poisioning, what?)
