<p>Im not even at Rutgers yet and I know this bandwidth limit will give me hell. Does connecting to RUWireless allow you to download without adding to your bandwidth? As far as I know, the bandwidth is only for ResNet, right?</p>
<p>In order to use RU Wireless, you’ll still have to sign into your account.</p>
<p>If you want to download movies, music, or games or whatever, get DC++. Rutgers students have a great collection of stuff to download without using any of your bandwidth. Plus, it’s really fast. Imagine an 800MB movie file downloaded onto your computer in 2 seconds.</p>
<p>^ yes. DC++. I still don’t know how to use it. Didn’t find out about it until a month left before school ended. It’s going to be my source for movies and music during the time that I’m not home on the weekend once I get someone to teach me about it.</p>
<p>You can’t escape the bandwidth limit. Even in wireless they keep track. If you go over your limit in your dorm room with the wired connection, you STILL can’t use the internet via wireless connection (personal experience here – I thought I could have pulled a fast one with this). </p>
<p>Plus the connection sucks with the wireless sometimes. So downloading would be slow.</p>
<p>I was wondering about this too. Are we allowed to get our own cable/internet provider in the dorms, for example comcast or verizon fios?</p>
<p>No, you can’t get your own internet provider. There’s really no reason to go over on the bandwidth limit - all tv episodes are on DC++ within a day, every movie is on there, music is on there, etc. The only reason you would go over is if you were watching a lot of youtube videos or something.</p>
<p>what is this DC++, i looked it up and it was a p2p program yet i how do you use it ? how can i check what it has ? </p>
<p>i use rapidshare to download every thing (and megaupload)</p>
<p>DC++ and you need to use the Rutgers address (which can only be used when using ethernet at Rutgers i believe).</p>
<p>ask your RA they should know…</p>
<p>What is the bandwith limit?
And does youtube vids take up a lot of bandwith?</p>
<p>DC++ is a p2p program that uses Rutgers LAN to download files from each other. Since everything is wired, you can reach speeds of up to 10mb/s downloading. The download limit is 4gb and the upload limit is 2gb for 7 days (or 5, i forget). I have only gone over once, and that was when I wasn’t paying attention and streaming .avi’s</p>
<p>Has anyone gone over the bandwidth limit using Oovoo or Skype?</p>
<p>rutgers 2013, you can get around the bandwidth limit if you delete your “system32” file</p>
<p>lol @joho</p>
<p>oovoo and skype shouldn’t use up too much unless you’re planning to have a vidchat marathon</p>
<p>@johokat
I have a Mac, what do I do?</p>
<p>@-Lurker-
vidchat marathon… I’ve been in 4 hour video chats 3 times a week… so define marathon? lol</p>
<p>DC++ is awesome. If you have a mac, you use Shakespeer. Do a search on google, you’ll find out info on how to set it up. If ur lazy, find a nerd they’ll set it up in minutes. But a heads up, you’ll need to share 1GB of stuff (not windows folders and bullcrap) before checking out stuff on Rutgers’ DC++.</p>
<p>what do you mean you’ll have to share 1 GB of stuff?</p>
<p>so if you don’t have 1 GB, you simply can’t use it? o:</p>
<p>Koto: Just download like 4-6 music albums of torrents or something, but just stop the “seeding” via your utorrent or bitcomet or whatever you use for downloading.</p>
<p>and this DC++ thing has just about everything ?</p>
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<p>One of my friends used to Skype me every night, and they went over the limit in like two days (it was video calls). So you may want to watch that.</p>
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<p>Yeah, it has most things. Pretty much all movies, programs, etc. that you need for the most part.</p>
<p>@rzermatt
Were they long calls? Could Oovoo use less bandwidth by any chance…?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, is there some sort of program that you can get that tells you how much bandwidth you have used? Or at least some way to calculate it…</p>