<p>1) is bandwidth usage on college campuses restricted, if so whats the average limit?</p>
<p>2) i dont live in the states and here illegal downloading of music, movies etc is overlooked as long as your not downloading inconcievable amounts, is that the same over there? whats the situation like on-campus using their inet connections? </p>
<p>thanks guys</p>
<p>it really varies from school to school.
for example, one of my friend attends a school where they will pretty much overlook illegal downloading. another attends one where they take your computer and delete everything ever downloaded if they find out you're downloading illegally.</p>
<p>Umm, well I don't know about limited bandwidth usage, but I know that illegal downloading is being strongly discouraged here because apparently the school's network is being watched. Apparently the school had a student who got fined 14k for illegal downloads: yikes! Other fines have been about 6k and up.</p>
<p>At my school, there were a few people caught and disciplined for illegal downloading and such, but they were mostly using Limewire. My school has a pretty big DC++ hub, and it is virtually impossible for the school to track download/upload activity on it.</p>
<p>As for bandwith restrictions, the school allows 10 GB per 7-day period. If you go beyond that, your internet access speed will be slowed for the next 7-day period. The 10-GB rule only applies to internet traffic, not to network traffic that stays within the school network (school network traffic is unlimited and there are no bandwith restrictions).</p>
<p>i really doubt that bandwidth is limited at most places...the other thing too is that they might block some ports that certain filesharing programs use, but you can either change the port to one that i open or ask them to punch a hole in the firewall for some made up but seemingly valid reason -- IT people generally dont care that much so long as you give them something valid to tell their superiors</p>
<p>Based on my understanding, at Georgia Tech, they don't restrict your bandwidth. However, they say that "Anything in excess of 1 Gigabyte over a span of 24 hours is far beyond normal usage."</p>
<p>My friends who exercised common sense in their downloading were not caught. My friend who decided that downloading 12 gigs in one day was a good idea was caught. He wasn't fined, just warned.</p>
<p>^ I love our internet. 1 gig of bandwidth per person is so nice.</p>
<p>I download like crazy....just don't upload, thats where I've seen people get caught. And if they do catch you...it's usually just a warning.</p>
<p>I can only base this on my own experience, which was at Case:</p>
<p>Bandwidth is limited, but not in a major way. Each semester you could get nine warning for network abuse before any trouble happened. If you hit 10, they took you to court apparently, though I've never known it to happen to anybody. I uploaded somewhere between 800 gb and 1 tb, and downloaded probably another 180-225 gb of content over about 3 or 4 months, and only got about 8 abuse warnings.</p>