Dorm internet

[kutibah]

<p>Yeah the internet is ridiculously fast. My PS3 would download a whole 200mb system update in like 15 seconds.</p>

<p>As for illegal download, supposedly they stopped monitoring them this year, but that of course was a small article in the Daily Bruin…not worth risking it. I must admit, I have used torrents a couple times last year and got away scotch free. As for Megaupload, I’m almost positive that one is fine. Almost everyone I know used Megaupload to watch movies all last year many many times.</p>

<p>But honestly, the way I saw it was it’s better to use wireless and use the lounge hub. I felt that at least that way they would have a hard time tracking who it was that was downloading since they wouldn’t be able to exactly pinpoint a land wire.</p>

[sid3000]

<p>what type of Ethernet cable should one get for dorm room internet?</p>

[Fasttrack]

<p>I think regular cat 5e cables would be fine. It can support speeds up to 1000 megabits per sec (or 1 gigabit/sec).</p>

[VTECaddict]

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@kutibah

But honestly, the way I saw it was it’s better to use wireless and use the lounge hub. I felt that at least that way they would have a hard time tracking who it was that was downloading since they wouldn’t be able to exactly pinpoint a land wire.

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<p>but you have to log into the wireless with your UCLA BOL ID, or through UCLA VPN…</p>

[Altema]

<p>Exactly, meaning you can be tracked regardless, lol.</p>