Hey, I'm new here in Rolla and a few nights ago I got an email saying I'd gone over my bandwith quota and will be limited the next 7 days. I got a new laptop and left Steam downloading all my games over the past few nights, so I'm sure that's why since it's been running fairly nonstop. What I was wondering is what the exact bandwith rules are, if anyone knows? Does it let you download so much every day, week, or month? Just wondering, since I want to finish a certain few games, and if I knew how much I could download each day without going over that'd be good.

Also, does it only monitor HTTP usage, or all ports?

wow. i heard they had gotten rid of bandwidth limits. If you go here, and click bandwidth usage meter, it can tell you how much you have downloaded. Last I was told that it doesn't limit one peer, but slows down everyone as a whole.

Hmm, well I definitely got an email from Karl Lutzen saying I was limited.

Where is the link to view bandwith usage?

I'm assuming internal traffic isn't monitored either.

internal traffic does not account to your bandwidth usage.

e-mail karl back, sometimes he will let stuff like that slide.

They got rid of the set tiers we had awhile back, but if you use too much, you'll get a nice e-mail from Karl as this guy did.

Seriously, do you have nothing better to do Devil?

I answered the guy's question, what the fuck is wrong with that?

http://www.umsystem.edu/ums/departments ... /005.shtml
http://it.mst.edu/policies/mst/internetusage.html

Read them!

You will be assimilated!

I've read both of those links, along with a few other pages. What I was wondering is if there was an actual limit that once you hit, you were watched, or if it is all case by case, and they just monitor who is using the most.

As far as I know, it's case-by-case.

Just a tip, but this only affects computers registered to you. So you could go into a CLC, download what you need, and move it onto a USB flash drive, burn it to a CD or something like that.

Ah, never thought of that. I wonder if SSHing into one of the UNIX machines available and downloading to my school account storage would bring suspicion?

You only have 500 megs of storage so that probably wouldn't be enough. I'm not sure if you can write to the hard drive on the *nix boxes. I know you can on the Windows machines, in your C:\Documents and Settings\userid directory.

Yea, I suppose you can't do much with 500MB. I wonder if it's possible to set up an SSH tunnel to route your traffic through one of the computers. I suppose that's just a little too much work just to get around a little monitoring.

In any case, thanks for the information.

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My interwebs porn usually loads faster than any academic shit I have to do. Hmm.

But seriously, the internet is FUCKED UP, at least at TJ. Last night at midnight I was downloading XP service pack 2 (wiped vista lol) at 20kb/sec. The front desk at TJ, and even in Havener's student life offices, are typically 20-50x faster than in individual rooms.

I understand the internet is designed for academic purposes, but in a residential facility... hate to tell them but not everyone performs academia at all hours of the day. I recall paying for that shit and it needs to be done right. Fuck, charge me double if it means I don't lag out of CS:S.

I downloaded a metric ass ton (3 OS's, patches for em, all of my essential programs in triplicate) in the past day or two and I've never received an e-mail.