<p>But this does not affect people living on campus correct?</p>
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Recently, there was news about DC++ at various universities getting shut down by MPAA/RIAA. They apparently didn't give a list but told the individual universities to shut it down. Anything similar at Cornell?
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<p>No. A lot of students at Cornell use DC++, and because you're sharing files between on-campus Cornell students, it doesn't count as part of the 2 MB of bandwidth that you're allotted per month.</p>
<p>I still think 5 GB is ridculous. I've gone over than in one or two of my heavy downloading days.</p>
<p>You can't really stream any lengthy videos either.</p>
<p>I agree.
Any cap is ridiculous.
There is nothing we can do about it.
Let's kill this thread.</p>
<p>caps aren't ridiculous
it's a university
its network is meant to serve academic purposes</p>
<p>downloading every season of simpsons and family guy and then sharing them with 391 different script kiddies across the world isn't an academic purpose</p>
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downloading every season of simpsons and family guy and then sharing them with 391 different script kiddies across the world isn't an academic purpose
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<p>Let it be noted that one could do all of that WITHOUT using up any of the 5GB thanks to the magic of DC++. </p>
<p>I think everyone's underestimating how much stuff is on there.</p>
<p>How fast does new content get into the DC++ hubs?</p>
<p>this thread is heading in the wrong direction... it's probably best to move to PMs</p>
<p>I'm on the internet quite a bit, and I use about 0.6 - 1.0 GB a month according to my Cornell acount info....</p>
<p>I use aim, compulsively check my email, and surf some pretty audio and video intensive sites, and haven't had any problems.</p>
<p>Next year they are raising it to 5.0 GB, by the way.</p>
<p>Oh, and wireless use is not counted. But I don't use it unless I'm the lounge with my laptop or something.</p>
<p>I'll have to budget my usage accordingly, I suppose</p>
<p>i was worried because i keep my aim on all the time, but stplayrxtreme said he does too, and it's not the much, so i'm set!</p>
<p>I'm a heavy online RPG and FPS gamer, so this pretty much kills my hobby. Maybe this is a sign sent from above for me to study in college.
This does kind of suck, as at my high school dorm I had unlimited bandwith at full broadband speed.</p>
<p>soccer,
AIM should not take large amount of your bandwidth, because one ping is only 32 bytes of data, whereas text messages are not that heavy either, so I think that there would be no problem with AIM and IRC. P2P and games are other matters...</p>
<p>I think that Cornell has the right idea about what to do, but the cost is too high. $1.50 per GB is high by anyone's standards, even for the best bandwidth. In my opinion, the best solution would be to just not include any bandwidth whatsoever, and bill something like $0.25 per GB. This way people are still held accountable, Cornell can afford their OC3 line, and people are able to download some ammount of a/v content without being charged hundreds of dollars per month. This also lessens the burdon on people who use the internet for just checking E-Mail, as chances are they would only be billed $0.25.</p>
<p>I realize that Cornell's network wasn't intended for a/v usage, and other high bandwidth activities, but they should allow it at a cost that's not exorbitant. </p>
<p>By charging for bandwidth, Cornell can afford to get new lines to the internet, or possibly upgrade their OC3 if their network becomes saturated.</p>
<p>It seems a bit weird to me that the wireless is unmetered, despite the fact that it is connected to the same pipes. To me, this sounds like Cornell is just encouraging heavy bandwidth users to switch to wireless, and not holding them accountable for the bandwidth they use. The network will still become saturated.</p>
<p>Also-- I've never been to Cornell before(I'm going to the summer program this summer), but it seems a bit unreasonable for Cornell to just have an OC3 line to the internet and an OC3 Internet2 line. I would think that with all of Cornell's research they would need a lot more bandwidth than that.</p>
<p>I just finished freshman yeah. from my post count on here, you can see that i spend a fair bit of time online...a couple hours a day. There were only a few times i exceeded bandwidth, and it was only a couple dollars.</p>
<p>I have outlook checking a non-campus mail account once per minute, 24/7.
I usually have AIM on.
I browse websites with a lot of graphics like ebay, google images, and probably most of all, FACEBOOK, esp. now that it has tons of pictures.
I can assure you that you will be fine with all of these things. Also, DC++ has almost anything you could want on it with download speeds of about 1.3 MB/sec, and wait times for new content are rarely more than a day, often only a couple hours.</p>
<p>Some things to avoid: watching a lot of google videos or youtube. I know it's addicting, but I have to admit I confined my video usage mostly to library computers since i had a lot of free boring time when i was employed at the library.
Multiplayer gaming over the internet (sorry guys, but really, that's not an issue for MOST students, there aren't that many serious gamers at cornell relative to the whole student body)
Downloading from p2p services other than DC++
Streaming from the napster service, or any other internet music service.</p>
<p>so yeah, unless you need youtube on demand, HAVE to stream music from the internet (you don't), or are a gamer, don't worry.</p>
<p>one note of caution actually, don't leave some other fileshare program open. my friend did overnight, and a bunch of people downloaded an relatively new episode of gilmore girls from her, and she ended up with 50 dollars in resnet charges overnight haha. so yeah...that's why one should just use DC++ at cornell unless it's an "emergency"</p>
<p>I just play counter strike every now and then, will I be in trouble? lol</p>
<p>HEY KIDS.</p>
<p>You will learn to love DC++ when you get on campus. You can download anything imaginable at over 1 MB/sec, all from the on-campus network. This is what you will use for P2P, and it does not count for your monthly limit.</p>
<p>I agree with spar's post. I use the Internet a ton, and only exceeded for a few dollars a couple times. That's when we had a 2GB limit, and they're upping it to 5GB. I don't know ANYBODY who exceeded 5GB in a month last year.</p>
<p>I game and watch a lot of anime. Newly released anime isn't going to get on the hub unless someone takes the hit for it, and I don't want to wait around for someone else to get it for me when I can do it myself.</p>
<p>You'd be amazed what you can find, and how soon you can find it.</p>
<p>If there is a 5gb a month limit, doesnt that affect the population of the DC++ servers? I mean thats one dvd image ><</p>