<p>I'm just curious. What transfer rate do you guys get on umich servers?</p>
<p>Usually I top out around 800-900kbps when downloading through mytunes across the network. I think the network might be faster, but the hubs in the room can't handle anything faster.</p>
<p>i usually download around 5500 kbps and upload around 7500. Connection's pretty fast around here.</p>
<p>Wow, things are getting reversed nowadays. Comcast is faster than university internet! lol</p>
<p>Downloading from websites, I'm getting around 3-500kbps (I've only downloaded a couple things so far)
On BitTorrent and other P2P programs (other than things on the network), it goes freakishly slow . . like 4-7 kbps. Michigan limits the P2P rates.</p>
<p>Haven't tried mytunes yet</p>
<p>steady 850kB/s on usenet</p>
<p>how does usenet work, samwise?</p>
<p>Is there a campus DC++ hub?</p>
<p>There is a good guide to it here: <a href="http://www.slyck.com/ng.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.slyck.com/ng.php</a></p>
<p>Okay, I have dialup, so those speeds are like... amazing fast. Seriously, like, the other day I was downloading something at about 200 BYTES/s ...
Random question: Can you download things onto the university's computers? Like, if I'm sitting at a computer in the fishbowl, and I want to log in to msn, can I download it onto the computer or should I use the web messenger version?</p>
<p>thanks samwise . . do you pay for usenet? Is there a UMich usenet group? (free? lol)</p>
<p>There actually used to be one, but they stopped providing access this year. I'm not sure if they ever caried the binary groups though. Pricing varies a lot by provider, the best service being around $25 a month (which I've convinced myself to pay for for the last year or so). That's for unlimited downloads and ~75 day retention. There is another unlimited service with around 40-45 days retention for 15 dollars a month. And then there are services that sell by the gigabyte, around 2.5GB/dollar.</p>
<p>See giganews.com, newshosting.com and easynews.com for the ones I mentioned.</p>
<p>samwise, what newsreader do you use?</p>
<p>Newsleecher</p>