<p>How is Rice's Internet? Such as speed, firewalls, etc...</p>
<p>Plus....how are they with P2P things like Limewire and torrents?</p>
<p>(Speaking for the ethernet hookup) Pretty damn fast, especially for uploading (my speed according to speedtest.net was over 30,000 kb/sec for upload, 6400 kb/sec for download). There are times I feel frustrated because the connection stalls for like 5 min and nothing will load, but then it gets back to normal pretty promptly.</p>
<p>As far as downloading, you should be fine, but if you get caught sharing a bunch of stuff, IT will quarantine your account.</p>
<p>quarantine meaning....haha i know what it means generally...but what do u mean exactly for this situation?</p>
<p>See <a href="http://www.rice.edu/vpit/quarantine.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.rice.edu/vpit/quarantine.html</a>, specifically Example 2 down the page.</p>
<p>It is a bad idea to download copyrighted material from any computer, especially at any university. Rice does not seek out offenders unless legally required to do so, but torrent speeds are slowed through packet shaping. Rice fully complies with court orders that they routinely receive from the RIAA etc.</p>
<p>routinely? it happens that often?</p>
<p>When IT quarantines your computer you can't get on the internet at all. And Rice is quite strict about downloading illegal things. Tons of my friends have had their computers quarantined after downloading music from limewire. I have heard that if you do it on the wireless connection that you will not get caught.</p>
<p>it happens quite often.</p>
<p>If you only download a few stuff occasionally, you should be fine. RIAA usually goes for the high volume downloaders/uploaders. But if you want free music and don't to take any chances, Ruckus.com offers access to its music selection with a .edu email address.</p>
<p>So I'm guessing bittorent is out of the question...</p>
<p><em>sigh</em></p>
<p>i use it. just dont do it too much and use rice visitorinstead of the ethernet connectionc</p>
<p>What's the difference between the two, and how would I go about doing that?</p>
<p>Rice Visitor does nothing to protect your identity if you have, at any time, used the machine you are connecting to Rice Visitor on the wired network or on the Rice wireless.</p>