<p>I know that UCSD restricts a lot of file sharing with programs such as emule or limewire. does berkeley give you a hard time sharing and downloading files over their internet?</p>
<p>im asking because im interested (lets just say)</p>
<p>yeah, what about torrent--></p>
<p>A program that many students living in the dorms use is DC++ because it's really fast (everyone has T3) and you can find almost anything you want - movies, music, textbooks, old exams, solutions, anything. However, I think the administration has started busting students for using it...I'm not too sure; nothing ever happened to me and I downloaded tons of stuff using DC++. I think prohibition of BT is enforced, not too sure.</p>
<p>I've used BT for brand-new episodes of tv shows, and it worked. The only thing is, though, BT counts towards dorm bandwidth because it's straight from the internet, whereas DC++ doesn't because it's within the Berkeley network. Or something. Someone explained this to me once but I'm not really computer-literate regarding this. Bottomline, BT will count towards your weekly 5 GB (if you're in dorms). My connection has been suspended because I've used up the allotted amount in a given week, yes. All you have to do to get it back, though, is to take this "quiz" they have on the rescomp site.</p>
<p>Does the dorm limitation apply to Channing-Bowditch and Yori Wada too? I bet it does.</p>
<p>You can download anything you want. There are no P2P ports blocked as far as I know (unlike, say, UCI, where you can't download anything since P2P packet priority is set to nothing and bandwidth is severely limited). However, as winterpolaris said, you have a 5GB weekly download + upload limit. It is very, very easy to hit that limit with Bittorrent. That is why most people use DC++; there is a good selection, and since it comes from campus computers to campus computers, it doesn't count against bandwidth.</p>
<p>If you do overrun your bandwidth limit, you will be given one shot to get it back by taking a quiz online. However, if you violate your limit after the first time you'll have to wait until the following Monday at 12:00AM, when the bandwidth limits reset for the week. There are, by the way, one or two weeks out of the year when they don't restrict bandwidth, so go crazy those weeks (I hit 30GB one of those weeks). Also, Sunday evenings you should also download as much as possible, since after going over it will be reset at midnight anyway.</p>
<p>If you have a laptop, you can go around campus and use AirBears to download P2P. It's slower, but doesn't count against your bandwidth.</p>
<p>The University, upon request, will hand over IP addresses of those students who download. None of your emails are private and are technically owned by the University. If you choose to download and violate copyright, know that that is a risk you are taking and that there are severe repercussions and consequences.</p>