<p>Hey everyone,</p>
<p>So I had a question about the policy on internet use at UCSD. Cuz my friend said that UCI has a 1 gb download limit per semester... I was wondering if UCSD had a similar policy? If so, does this limit apply to streaming media as well?</p>
<p>Wow, UCI’s download policy sucks if that’s true. As far as I know, there isn’t a download limit for the dorms. Granted, all p2p transfers are limited to the point that it just crawls.</p>
<p>that sounds terrible… i’ve personally downloaded about a terabyte this last year using UCSD’s internet but I will still tell you to be careful</p>
<p>holy ****… a terabyte? thats alot of porn :-P</p>
<p>At UCSB they give you a certain about of bandwidth that you can download between 1 pm and 1 am. If you go over your limit for the day (I am not sure exactly how much that is yet) the internet will start to go really slow.</p>
<p>Any time between 1 am and 1 pm you can download as much as you want.</p>
<p>I normally pull around 10 mb/s off of Rapidshare at this time. I have only been here for 3 weeks and I already have over a terabyte of movies.</p>
<p>DC++ is where its at though…which is uncapped and you get around 10 mb/s all day. I hope UCSD has a DC++ hub running when I go there in the fall.</p>
<p>I never used DC++… I remember hearing that it was VERY widely used a few years ago on campus but they started cracking down on people using it…</p>
<p>Anyways, i would routinely get 10 MB (megaBYTES) per second using megaupload</p>
<p>hey striff, im assuming u have a premium rs account. where do u get Premium RS accounts? i have so much to dload from rapidshare but the dload speed limit and wait time is killing me</p>
<p>lol are you serious?</p>
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<p>lol… u pay? sorry i didn’t make myself clear but i meant free RS accounts, obviously u can get them if u pay</p>
<p>you cant get premium for free
unless you exchange points</p>
<p>why not use torrents?</p>
<p>easier to be caught with torrents, rapidshare just looks like you are downloading from an http source, they can filter the traffic</p>
<p>then how about torrent with peer blocking? (like peerguardians or just ip block list enabled on utorrent?) cuz personally ive been way to used to just using utorrent to wanting to change…</p>
<p>that **** does not work, people still get caught while using peerguardian…</p>
<p>if you want to download a lot, rapidshare is your best bet. its way worth it, plus you can share with friends. just split the cost</p>
<p>does the school actually throttle the speed of the torrents? I can understand getting caught using a site like the pirate bay, but what if you use private trackers?</p>
<p>i think private trackers are still unsafe but are better, i think im going to order an account, its only 7 euroes, its worth a shot, and i download a ****load,</p>
<p>you should really just avoid torrents altogether. i’ve been told that you can get your internet disconnected just by having your torrent client open and running - like, you don’t even have to be uploading/downloading anything. i don’t really know how it works but yeah, keep that in mind.</p>
<p>no that’s completely untrue. Torrents are a very good way of downloading items you are actually allowed to download, such as freeware. UCSD won’t disconnect you for downloading a Linux distro via bittorrent</p>
<p>They throttle the ports and even block ports that torrents use. </p>
<p>You can try changing your ports…but I can almost guarantee it won’t work.</p>
<p>Rapidshare is the way to go. Its not that expensive.</p>