UMR has implemented a system which effectively limits the use of p2p network traffic - bandwith tiers. Most days of casual surfing will leave you with plenty of bandwith for the day, but start downloading large files, and you may have to sacrifice some speed for a day or two.
Frankly - this is better than a blatant crackdown because it keeps students out of trouble (and no black marks on their transcript/record) for silly offenses like trying out a new cd before buying, and it makes students more responsible with the bandwidth they are given. At ohio, by contrast, they will probably have to deal with a number of students getting in trouble internally for something stupid, and still doesn't solve their bandwidth problems if users download large (but legal) files from http sources (ie openoffice).
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FYI, since so few people know, you can get many open source files, including CD/DVD images of Linux distributions, from http://mirror.umr.edu. OpenOffice too. I downloaded the new Ubuntu install from there recently for no BW cost.
open office is pretty good, honestly. I used it for about a month when I couldn't find my Office 2003 cd. It's not great, but much better than wordpad, from my experience.
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dumb question, does it work with office files, like .doc and whatever? or does it save files in a different format? (i.e. could real office open fake office?)
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