<p>Good or bad idea? Will they come for my soul?</p>
<p>Not that I torrent.... hypothetical question of course. =)</p>
<p>If you reallllllly need to torrent, a smart hypothetical torrenter at CMU will limit his total connections and upload speed so as to not trigger the bandwidth warnings. Idiots who somehow break the “50GB over 5 days” rule deserve to get caught; 50GB is A LOT of crap.</p>
<p>Don’t seed, not like anyone does =p</p>
<p>Don’t seed? There will be no files to download if nobody seeded.</p>
<p>With sarcasm of course. Without a user set cap though, I’m pretty sure you’ll be easily upping 3-5MB/sec on campus. Just don’t leave your computer unattended for too long</p>
<p>Holy cow they upped it to 50GB? (Old man mode again) Ages ago they had it so you had unlimited downstream and limited to 10GB/5 days upload. Eventually they made it so you only had 10 GB/5 days total up/down, but this was before streaming videos and downloading games legally was popular.</p>
<p>(I think freshman year we actually had unlimited down/up, and that was amazing. After they put the limit on it was only for non-I2 traffic, so when I2hub was around you could get unlimited data easily at speeds over 500kb/sec. It was pretty nice.)</p>
<p>just use cmu dtella when u get to campus. lots of stuff are on that and have plenty of stuff to download</p>
<p>cmu dtella’s been bad for me this past year. couldn’t get on. =(</p>
<p>Just use dtella. 10 Megabyte/s (yes megabyte) speeds (1080p movies in 10 minutes), and it is pretty well maintained.</p>
<p>Blu-ray movies? or just regular full HD movies?</p>
<p>There’s almost always a decent blu-ray rip of popular movies floating around dtella.</p>
<p>Whats the difference? They are both 1080p, except Blu ray probably has some obscene uncompressed bitrate. For almost every movie you can expect 1080p with x264 and DTS at the least.</p>
<p>I was just curious. About to pull a trigger on a laptop. In whole honesty, how mobile does the laptop have to be? I’m an ECE major, and I feel like it’s just going to be sitting in my dorm most of the time so it’s fine to go for a 17 inch.</p>
<p>I had a laptop while at CMU (Materials Engineering) and only ever used it when I visited my parents on breaks. Personally, if I was starting school now, I’d build a desktop for pretty cheap and then buy a netbook for when I need portability. Generally, if you’re not working in your room you’ll be either in a cluster to use some school software or in a library doing pencil and paper type of work.</p>
<p>The only way I’d say to get a full powered laptop is if you’re someone that doesn’t like working in your dorm room and prefers to do everything in a library (though, really, you could instead just work in a cluster instead).</p>