<p>Don't know if anyone will know this, but if I bring a network storage drive, or even a desktop for that matter, am I able/allowed to hook it up to the network so I can snag my music/files/everything from anywhere on campus?</p>
<p>It'd be password protected and more most likely, but just wondering if CMU has somthing that would stop it. </p>
<p>How is the network set up, is it somthing where you can see lots of other computers openly or what? (never seen a college network setup)</p>
<p>If you bring a network drive, you will need a router to hook it up because there is only 1 ethernet port per person in a room. If you wanted to stream a movie or something over the internet I could maybe see why this would be useful, but if you have something smaller in mind, you get 1 GB of storage on the network. I don't really know how network drives work but I am assuming they are similar enough that you can just use an ftp client to get files to your computer. I don't think there is any problem with this in terms of legality since you aren't sharing anything but you can check here to see <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/Computing.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/Computing.htm</a>
Also, if you are transferring files inside the CMU network, I don't think it counts to your bandwidth usage as long as you are using ethernet, and not wirelss</p>
<p>I doubt they would have a problem with a networked drive, however I bet they would not approve of a rouge router. In fact I know of one college that will suspend accounts of people who hook up unauthorized routers. I haven't yet fully read CMU's policy though....I'm glad to hear we get 1GB of storage space on the network though :)</p>
<p>so there is a bandwith usage cap over wireless, what is it?</p>
<p>really, what I was hoping to accomplish would be a 500gb networked drive (they make wireless or wired options) that I could keep my music and things on, so that I don't have to have that 60+ GB of music, who knows how much video, and whatever else, on my puny 100gb laptop hard drive, but still be able access it anywhere using the laptop.</p>
<p>Not as if I'd actually be transferring that music over the wireless, simply accessing the files.</p>
<p>And yes, a few have built-in ftp clients and other things to that effect</p>
<p>Sounds like i may need to call and actually ask, but we'll see.</p>
<p>edit: and going off of that, you mention only 2 ethernet connections per room. Is wireless connectivity present? (I'm in Donner)</p>
<p>I feel your pain c1utch...my lappy has 80GB and after transferring music, vids, etc there just isn't much left. I wanted to play around with linux and maybe osx86.....not gonna happen. I'm going to upgrade to a 200gb+ notebook drive come winter and turn this one into an external or something.</p>
<p>I share the pain as well!
I have 9 gigs left on my computer and I haven't even put all of my music on it yet.
80gb is way too small.
I'm trying to convince my dad to get an external hard drive.. he wants me to wait until Christmas. (!! i can't last that long hah)</p>
<p>There is wireless pretty much everywhere although in some spots you may get a weak signal. There is a cap of 10 GB per 5 days for wired access, and something like 5*750 MB per 5 days for wireless. If you go over the limit, they will watch your daily usage and you will be restricted to 2GB per day wired and 750 MB wireless. If you violate this I think you get a warning, and then you are kicked off the network</p>
<p>Yes, it's fine. You can have as many devices as you want registered on the network, or hooked into your one network plug (use a switch or hub). As long as you stay within the bandwidth guidelines, you're fine.</p>
<p>As for the bandwidth cap, here's the story:
Wireless has a 750mb a day limit.
Wired has a 10GB/5 days limit for traffic that goes out to the internet. If you break that limit, your bandwidth is then checked daily (which means only 2GB/day).
Wired has no limit for traffic that stays on the CMU network.</p>