<p>Do all dorms (halls, plazas, etc) have cable tv and internet in them? Or do we have to get our own?</p>
<p>Also, I know the res halls and suites dont have AC. As a person who loves cold, does it get hot without AC? It's impossible for me to fall asleep if I feel too hot.</p>
<p>"Also, I know the res halls and suites dont have AC. As a person who loves cold, does it get hot without AC? It's impossible for me to fall asleep if I feel too hot."</p>
<p>no, it doesn't get hot enough that you'd need AC. maybe during the hotter days, a fan will suffice. UCLA is close to the ocean so sometimes its windy. at night though, it won't be hot enough where you can't sleep. HOWEVER, one complaint i have for the residence halls is that sometimes, they turn the heater on TOO MUCH during the winter time, and it gets TOO HOT. haha. </p>
<p>if you want to test it out, GO TO ORIENTATION. summer is when it is hottest in los angeles, so see how comfortable you feel during that. </p>
<p>"Do all dorms (halls, plazas, etc) have cable tv and internet in them?"</p>
<p>all dorms have internet (t1?).. it's free. all dorms should have cable tv as well for free. well... not free... they're already included in your housing payment.</p>
<p>thanks kfc</p>
<p>when i arrived in l.a. last august, i hated the heat. but things got better in late september.</p>
<p>also, if i sign up for housing but for some reason choose later on to stay at home, is it possible to cancel housing arrangements for the rest of the year?</p>
<p>and are we required to sleep in our dorms every weeknight? cuz if i dont have morning classes on a particular day, maybe i could just stay home the night before (i live in downtown l.a.)</p>
<p>"and are we required to sleep in our dorms every weeknight? cuz if i dont have morning classes on a particular day, maybe i could just stay home the night before (i live in downtown l.a.)"</p>
<p>you're never required to stay in your dorm LOL. some people go home on thursday night or friday night. </p>
<p>"also, if i sign up for housing but for some reason choose later on to stay at home, is it possible to cancel housing arrangements for the rest of the year?"</p>
<p>unsure of this.... perhaps someone else could help answer</p>
<p>thanks again kfc. glad to know theres no curfew or anything like that, lol.</p>
<p>How fast is the internet access by the way?</p>
<p>Just run a quick test here:</p>
<p><a href="http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/%5B/url%5D">http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/</a></p>
<p>its very fast - i've run some of those online tests before (I'm not in my dorm room now or I'd do it again), and its always been way above their benchmarks. And any intra-network transfers (wink wink) are ridiculously fast. My friend wanted to reformat, so i just had him transfer all the files he wanted to back up to my hard drive over the network - we got speeds of about 8 Mb/sec :)
When playing online games, your ping times will always be below 20 (and usually in single digits). I like our network haha.</p>
<p>Haha, thanks man. that's good to hear. I can't wait.</p>
<p>So, if you're using the internet connection in the dorm room, you can share files with anyone else on campus? Maybe you can clarify, Icarus.</p>
<p>-Ender</p>
<p>3.5 megabits/second, from my room in De Neve.</p>
<p>I didn't mean "share" in the sense that files are just open and available on the network (I'm assuming thats what you meant?). No I meant that if you send someone a file (either via AIM, an FTP server, etc.) within the dorm network, it will be quite fast. Flopsy brings a good point - my nice 8 Mb/sec tranfer isn't typical - its usually 3-5 Mb/sec depending on where it's going; but thats still very fast. </p>
<p>Sunset village is operating on a slightly different network than the rest of the dorms. They are on a 10 Mbps network, while the rest of the hill uses 100 Mbps (you probably won't notice the speed difference unless you are trying to do a massive download or some other very high bandwidth application). This happened because they just installed the wrong cables and such when they built the place - when I worked for network services, I hated working in Sunset rooms... network cabling and stuff in there is a pain in the @$$.</p>
<p>And for those of you who use iTunes (I do :)), there are always quite a few people sharing their music on each subnet. You won't get everyone in the dorms just because, even though it is one big network, it is split into a lot of different subnets, and iTunes only sees shared music lists on the same subnet that you are on (Which is usually the rest of your floor, maybe a floor and a half).</p>
<p>Icarus- can you elaborate on how you got to work for UCLA as a network guy?</p>
<p>I'm pretty good with computers..i think, and i want a job by the time i get to UCLA.</p>
<p>Yeah - its interesting how I found out about that job. It was actually from a guy a met on the MyUCLA forums before I even started at UCLA who worked for the Student Technology Center (a division of Network Services). Computers are obviously also my hobby, so I asked him about that job, and he told me to submit my resume and I got the job and started even before school started. It's a great job for techies - the pay is much better than most student jobs on campus. I would check it out if you're interested. They hired me during the summer, so send your resume about a month and a half before school starts and see if you can get the same deal.</p>
<p>Hey Icarus-</p>
<p>About the itunes sharing thing...are you talking about mytunes redux or ourtunes =). Hehe, they dont work for me now, but they'll work once i get on the network ;) w/ itunes sharing enabled right?</p>
<p>Oh btw...anyone use I2 hub???</p>
<p>haha no I don't use mytunes or ourtunes or whatever else *tunes there are out there. It's all about I2Hub! :)</p>
<p>So yes, I use I2Hub all the time - thank god we don't have a bandwidth restriction like some other schools. My friends convinced me to watch Alias two weeks ago, so I just started downloading the entire series. Probably downloaded about 12 gigs a day until I had Seasons 1-4. :D
Its so awesome that you can get speeds in excess of 1 Mb/sec from schools around the nation.</p>
<p>UCLA doesnt have any bandwidth restrictions?</p>
<p>Awesome. :D</p>
<p>does UCLA have firewall that prevents BitTorrent downloads?</p>
<p>I'm just wondering because I download educational programs that enhance my learning. Those programs are >1 GB. Is there are way to get around the firewall? Can UCLA catch and reprimand my files even though they are for educational purposes only?</p>
<p>lol wow Westow - if they are educational programs why are you worried? ;)</p>
<p>no, Bittorrent sites aren't blocked, although I know of a few sites that block all .edu domains for some reason.
And UCLA does not monitor your bandwidth use (what you use it for). There is, however, a packetshaper that prioritizes packet use. It isn't a problem though. There was a time last year I think it was that our network was being attacked by a server that was pinging our network and trying to establish a connection at some ungodly rate (it was into the thousands of times a minute) that would crash the packetshaper and therefore the network. But that problem has since been resolved (they upgraded the firmware on the packetshaper).</p>
<p>I'm not worried. Education is my top priority =)</p>
<p>It seems ironic that .edu domains are blocked.. they serve educational purposes.</p>
<p>Icarus-</p>
<p>Any chance that you could hook me up with a job?</p>
<p>What are the requirments btw. I found this on the ORL website
<a href="http://www.orl.ucla.edu/staffing/positions/view_position_description.cfm?positionid=18%5B/url%5D">http://www.orl.ucla.edu/staffing/positions/view_position_description.cfm?positionid=18</a></p>