<p>Are you allowed to bring your own airport for wireless within your room? Though I guess even if you could make it work others would mooch off of it</p>
<p>fj: I really don't see the point of bringing your own router, especially since "Red Rover," Cornell's Wireless network, is provided to you anyway. About mooching off, if you encrypt it (WPA), it would be near-impossible for people to break in.</p>
<p>Oh, so Red Rover is wireless within dorms? I wasn't aware of that, that's cool</p>
<p>Damn, that sucks. So much for downloading movies on Bittorrent. Well, actually, I guess I'd just need to go to the library and use RedRover for that.</p>
<p>Red Rover isn't available in most dorms. For most of your movie needs, DC++ will have what you want. And starmel is completely right.</p>
<p>Having Red Rover in the dorms would completely negate the whole thing where they charge you for going over a certain bandwidth since everyone would just use the wireless connection.</p>
<p>And I'm bringing a wireless router...it will be useful for a laptop. I could sit in the lounge and work or browse the internet or whatever and never have to worry about plugging anything in every time I take my laptop to and from my room.</p>
<p>live-: some schools (I don't know if cornell is one of them) don't allow any extensions to their network (hubs, routers, switches, access points, etc.). I would check before doing so.</p>
<p>You can bring a wireless router. I know a bunch of people who do for the purpose live- stated.</p>
<p>for ppl already at Cornell: do they monitor the dc++ hub? Has anyone ever been in trouble (legal or school related) for sharing copyrighted content without permission?</p>
<p>Its true that only some dorms have wirelesss but they are increasing that as time goes on. You can bring routers etc. and hook them up in your room. To my knowledge only one person has gotten into real trouble for sharing on dc++. He shared a live recording of jon stewart at cornell and jon stewarts people caught wind of it. Other then that I think its pretty safe. Only people using resnet or redrover can access it so its not like someone in cali could easily mointor what you share.</p>
<p>"About (2), I was just wondering because I sort of am a heavy internet user (at least 50GB/month) and if I have to spend additional money to get that much bandwidth, it might be a deterrent against choosing Cornell over Penn or Northwestern."</p>
<p>I really hope you're joking. Don't make decisions over trivial things. You can just log on to the wireless system when you're downloading alot.</p>
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The Student Assembly has provided music downloads for free through Napster for the past two years, and since much of that music is stored on on-campus servers, it doesn't count against your 5 gigabyte limit.
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<p>Woah. This is cool. We have access to recordings of any song for free through the Student Assembly? And it doesn't count against our usage quota? That doesn't seem possible - am I missing something here?</p>
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Woah. This is cool. We have access to recordings of any song for free through the Student Assembly? And it doesn't count against our usage quota? That doesn't seem possible - am I missing something here?
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<p>You're not allowed to burn those songs to CD's--you can only listen to them on your computer. It's generally better to use DC++ for music downloads.</p>