<p>My friend at carnegie told me that his school has a limit of 10GB of download per week.
Does northeastern have any of that?
What about torrenting?
Where can I find rules about our internet use?</p>
<p>I don’t know about a maximum bandwidth limit per whenever, but I’m aware that during orientation they told us that torrenting was officially untolerated, but they didn’t really go after you unless you did a bunch of downloading. They were, however, completely willing to hand out all the information a company might need to sue you in the case of a copyright breach. I heard companies are growing more interested in litigation aimed at college students due to the ease of obtaining proof, so I’d go easy on torrenting at college.</p>
<p>Let me do some digging and see what I can come up with regarding the school’s official policy, and I’ll get back to you when I can.</p>
<p>I second this question</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s any limits on downloading… at least not that I ever noticed, and I used to torrent using NEU internet fairly regularly. On-campus internet gave me reasonable download speeds and everything, at least 2 years ago when I last lived on campus, so you’ll probably be ok.</p>
<p>Cable in dorms is awesome and free, netflix is pretty cheap even on a college student budget, so I try not to do tons of torrenting. Some kid at BU just got fined serious $$ for downloading like 23 songs or something ridiculous… getting sued would suck.</p>
<p>Yeah, Emily is right. People DO torrent, but like also said above Northeastern WILL give out all of your information right away if asked. They got in trouble by the government because they were protecting students’ identities during the census, but in this case they’ll do it happily.</p>
<p>And I heard about the BU kid. It was in the tens of thousands, I thought. Plus netflix is awesome.</p>
<p>[The</a> Northeastern University Appropriate Use Policy](<a href=“http://www.infoservices.neu.edu/aup.html]The”>http://www.infoservices.neu.edu/aup.html)
There you are, Northeastern’s official Appropriate Use Policy. Definitely worth a read.</p>
<p>Thank you Connor for the link :] Much appreciated.</p>
<p>Darn. I was thinking of taking advantage of colleges’ fast internet for torrenting :S</p>
<p>Well, you are fully allowed to use BitTorrent, as the technology itself is perfectly legal. On the other hand, what you do with said technology can be illegal, and if they discover you using it illegally, you can have some pretty bad consequences.</p>
<p>Well Northeastern lets you use BitTorrent. But some colleges ban it completely. For example, a friend of mine at UF said you can’t torrent at all on their internet connection.</p>
<p>They do allow it? Great.
Cuz I download stuff that’s non-copyrighted all the time :]</p>
<p>So as long as companies don’t tell the office, I’ll be perfectly fine?</p>
<p>bump on using Limewire/Frostwire/BeeMP3.com ?
I don’t even think twice about downloading songs off these programs and websites for free anymore. Is it a problem? Do you recommend going to Starbucks off-campus for downloading songs or something?</p>
<p>as long as companies aren’t tracking it, I don’t see why NEU would care.
Sure, it’s technically illegal, but no one’s complaining :S</p>
<p>Actually, it clogs up their connections when everyone is downloading huge files, so they would care. Plus more people downloading means more chance of someone being stupid and getting a bad virus.</p>
<p>Does Northeastern have any kind of peer network on campus like Shakespeer or DC++? That would eliminate worries of illegal business a little because we’re only sharing with other students’ files</p>
<p>There’s no peer-to-peer system that I know of.</p>
<p>In terms of data usage I downloaded steam to get video games legally at the beginning of a semester and literally downloaded 50GB worth in a single day and never heard a peep from ResNet. I’m pretty sure they don’t care.</p>
<p>bumpppppppppppppp</p>
<p>there’s no p2p campus network.</p>