<p>Hey all, I'm a pretty big Computer / Internet user and before I come down to UCSB I have a couple of questions:</p>
<p>I see that is says that you cannot run a private business out of the residence halls - is this merely in reference to running a for-profit server using school bandwidth? I run my own website off of a server elsewhere in the world and was hoping I could still maintain it.</p>
<p>What about online/lan gaming? Does ResNet make playing online games/mmos unbearable? Does anyone over there even game it up?</p>
<p>Does ResNet block xFire and teamspeak usage?</p>
<p>How are the WiFi speeds on campus, and how good is the coverage?</p>
<p>Can you access and upload to FTP servers? My website requires an FTP server to be maintained. </p>
<p>How's the latency?</p>
<p>Has anyone tried using a VPN for gaming/legal torrent usage (game patches, etc.)?</p>
<p>i can only answer a couple of your questions cause i dont know about the rest. you can play games on resnet; a couple hallmates play WoW and DotA all the time, and it’s pretty fast. the wifi coverage is pretty lame, it’s only at a couple places: the dorm halls, the ucen, the library, maybe a couple other places? i havent really figured it all out yet.</p>
<p>at night the wireless gets really slow which is really annoying. </p>
<p>i’ve used game patches (not sure if that’s allowed though lol). i didn’t know that game patches were considered torrents OO". but you can’t use bittorrents though. someone got caught torrenting in the past.</p>
<p>I think you can upload to FTP servers. UCSB also has one FTP server to host students’ uwebs.</p>
<p>wireless is horrible for gaming…so you should bring an Ethernet cable. there is only one per room so you would need a long one depending on which side you get and maybe you should get a switch to split the single connection (this is actually not allowed per res-net policy, but they could never find out; no WAP b/c they do find those). </p>
<p>i think resnet is OC3, they claim 150mbps. there is even a way to use dc++ (intranet)</p>
<p>local WLAN games constantly drop (warcraft), so avoid those and go wired or even get your own router</p>
<p>i havent been able to torrent or use limewire (blocked), but people definitely find ways around it</p>
<p>my roommate who has the older version of the macbook pro had some trouble hooking up to resnet secure compared to resnet open as well as finding network at all, while most windows users have had little problem connecting to resnet secure but these problems are easily solved by the resnet staff in san nic, san raf, and in santa catalina</p>
<p>i dont think limewire and torrents are blocked (i havent tried) but i heard someone over the summer trying to dl a movie from somewhere and was banned from resnet for 3 months</p>
<p>i once succeeded in downloading a torrent file. the file was only a few KB though lol. i heard about someone that found a way to download torrents and did it for like 2 years and never got caught, but then his friend did the same thing for a few months and got in trouble.</p>
<p>i’m not sure what newsgroups is but if using it doesn’t affect the internet speed then it should be OK. it seems like, aside from illegal filesharing, the UC is concerned about the main server’s internet speed, since torrents would slow down the overall speed (which isn’t even that fast anyway lol).</p>