This might make all the LAN gamers run cables across the hall to the other swampies they're gaming with (but never talk to face to face) rather than steal perfectly good internet from everyone else.
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This might make all the LAN gamers run cables across the hall to the other swampies they're gaming with (but never talk to face to face) rather than steal perfectly good internet from everyone else.
They blocked udp ports on the LAN? How does LAN gaming use steal internet?
Edit: LAN gaming seems normal, what did they actually block?
This might make all the LAN gamers run cables across the hall to the other swampies they're gaming with (but never talk to face to face) rather than steal perfectly good internet from everyone else.
that or we'll see a ton of wireless networks popping up.
anyways, I just got 250kbps on a speed test, fastest its been all year I think
They are trying to stop the abuse by P2P downloads, like bit torrent and the like.
unfortunately xbox live got snipped off as well. They said they can get it fixed by tomorrow afternoon...for xbox live that is...
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i guess it is, i dont really know. Did you read the email?
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Not to mention that it's keeping a lot of mmorpg-ers away from a service that they're PAYING for
so because you're paying for a service the rest of us who just want to browse the web without waiting 10 minutes for a page to load should get fucked? Personally, I dont care if you're paying $400 a month for your mmorpg, it is not your bandwidth to whore up like that. You, me and everyone else in the reshalls pays UMR the same amount for internet access, so I don't see why the people who pay more money for mmorpgs should get special treatment and more bandwidth. also, you should be lucky because these blocks are only temporary, UMR is one of the few colleges that doesn't block ports and doesn't care what the students do on the network. Go to a school with network nazis who are on your ass if you download a single MP3, you'll be glad to go back to UMR. And maybe being unable to play their mmorpgs will encourage the swampies to get off their chair and take a shower
devil, having talked to the head of IT-security for UMR, it's not the MMORPGers they're trying to block. I don't play any MMORPGs, I think they're a waste of money, but the relative bandwidth utilization to that of say a BitTorrent user is near non-existant. So what if someone is playing a game that take 20-40 KB/sec of bandwidth, I'd much rather they be doing that than downloading at 200 KB/sec some huge amount of movies.
MMORPGers have every right to use the bandwidth as everyone else, it's the 80% of the bandwidth that's getting tied down due to BitTorrent-type applications.
I was told they probably wouldn't resort to doing this, but it appears they had to do something drastic. Oh well.
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