 MJB
join:2012-01-29 | Canadian Colleges and Universities Limit Your Bandwidth »www.lfpress.com/2012/08/28/campu···nd-flows |
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| Canada is already the laughing stock of the entire world when it comes to bandwidth. This will give the rest of the world more to laugh about. |
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 TAKN
join:2003-09-21
Calgary, AB | reply to MJB
I have to give a positive review to UBC (which isn't mentioned in the article). When I used to live in residence there, every room was connected via a 100mbps port (with tons of capacity available).
You were allowed 7 GB of data every 24 hour period per MAC address. If you exceeded that, then you were speed limited until you dropped below 7 GB in that time period. In my opinion this was pretty fair.
Other important notes: Internal UBC traffic did not count, therefore as long as you used P2P within the network, then it didn't count towards the quota. |
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HoboJ
join:2008-03-27
Carrying Place, ON
kudos:1 Reviews:
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I stopped reading when I read this...
Bandwidth is a measurement of the amount of data sent and received over a network.
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This isn't surprising. Lots of institutions manage capacity in some way or another. I don't think a fixed 4 gig cap is a good idea, especially since it results in a 5 day timeout on the first offence without a warning. Do they even offer a meter? Should intra-campus or traffic from REN's be counted? I don't think it should, it's cheap and used for scholarly purposes.
But limiting stuff do a degree makes sense. In lecture halls and libraries, a couple institutions I know were at 100% utilization for wifi and that is with a very high density of 2.4/5.8 radios. You couldn't add more capacity. And a huge portion of it was consumed by streaming services or P2P. So they adopted a throttling solution. |
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Nipissing had no limits. Would download 4MB/s during regular class hours. Downloaded 9MB/s the last day of classes when everyone was packing up and ready to leave. |
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
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 dillyhammerA. Good. Start.Premium,MVM
join:2010-01-09
Hamilton, ON
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said by HoboJ:Bandwidth has nothing to do with ones usage outside of the absolute upper limit one can download over a period of time.
That's right.
Everyone knows it's gubflontahertz. Dammit.
Mike
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 pnjunctionTeksavvy ExtremePremium
join:2008-01-24
Toronto, ON
kudos:1 | reply to MJB
I think it was 5GB a week or something like that when I was in residence.
That 4 GB a day at Western is dumb. Couldn't even spend a few hours doing something like netflix HD with that. 120GB a month would be much more reasonable as it would average out the heavy days with the lighter ones. Maybe the control freaks there don't want the 'rush' at the beginning or end of the month but such a low daily limit is dumb.
I think that is what it comes down to is control freaks with no real need to satisfy their 'customers'. I have known some personally (university network admins) who brag about how they rule their network with an iron fist and stomp out usage they don't like. |
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I think they should raise tuition to cover usage costs. 500$/semester more per 500-meg. Besides, kids should only be using a uni computer for text only. Kinda like word processing in the cloud. What more do they need? |
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There were caps when I went to U of T. They really did need it though, the WiFi in most buildings were struggling at the time, likely due to limited capacity. Had to use my mobile hotspot on my phone quite frequently just to get connected on campus. |
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 XoX
join:2003-08-19
Qc, Canada
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said by pnjunction:I think it was 5GB a week or something like that when I was in residence.
That 4 GB a day at Western is dumb. Couldn't even spend a few hours doing something like netflix HD with that. 120GB a month would be much more reasonable as it would average out the heavy days with the lighter ones. Maybe the control freaks there don't want the 'rush' at the beginning or end of the month but such a low daily limit is dumb.
I think that is what it comes down to is control freaks with no real need to satisfy their 'customers'. I have known some personally (university network admins) who brag about how they rule their network with an iron fist and stomp out usage they don't like.
4 GB a day = 120 GB a month (30days).... |
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pnjunctionTeksavvy ExtremePremium
join:2008-01-24
Toronto, ON
kudos:1 | said by XoX:4 GB a day = 120 GB a month (30days).... Umm..you missed my point. 4GB a day is very restrictive to usage patterns compared to 120GB/month... |
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XoX
join:2003-08-19
Qc, Canada Reviews:
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| said by pnjunction:said by XoX:4 GB a day = 120 GB a month (30days).... Umm..you missed my point. 4GB a day is very restrictive to usage patterns compared to 120GB/month... Maybe but they are there to learn not download the whole fucking internet with my tax dollar... If they want to do that than they can pay it with their money... |
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XoX
join:2003-08-19
Qc, Canada Reviews:
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said by FiReSTaRT:Educational institutions, ones that are meant to promote the exchange of information are acting like the Robellus Cartel. At least they have the muscle to buy everything at wholesale rates, so there's no excuse for them to be limiting usage that much. I'd take my tuition money elsewhere if I decided to go back to school.
We are talking about a learning center not a download center... They can pay with their own money if want to download the Internet... |
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pnjunctionTeksavvy ExtremePremium
join:2008-01-24
Toronto, ON
kudos:1 | reply to XoX
said by XoX:Maybe but they are there to learn not download the whole fucking internet with my tax dollar... If they want to do that than they can pay it with their money... Oh so you're like that.
Folks in residence pay quite a bit and should have decent access there. Caps on wifi for students milling around, fine, especially considering the wifi is more vulnerable to congestion.
120 GB is far from the whole internet and students have plenty of time for using the internet and still keep up with studies. |
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 The LimitPremium
join:2007-09-25
Greensboro, NC
kudos:2 | reply to XoX
Easier said then done, especially when SOME of us work harder than those who have real jobs, because our education matters to us.
Take it from someone who literally spends 12+ hours a day at the college attending classes, doing homework or projects, taking notes, preparing for exams. Spending that much time in college really doesn't give one much time outside of college to work.
I'm not saying that I feel entitled, but dang, be a little understanding.
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join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
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said by TAKN:I have to give a positive review to UBC (which isn't mentioned in the article). When I used to live in residence there, every room was connected via a 100mbps port (with tons of capacity available).
You were allowed 7 GB of data every 24 hour period per MAC address. If you exceeded that, then you were speed limited until you dropped below 7 GB in that time period. In my opinion this was pretty fair.
Other important notes: Internal UBC traffic did not count, therefore as long as you used P2P within the network, then it didn't count towards the quota.
It's very easy to mask you MAC address and change it as needed
So unless you need to register each address your good |
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pnjunctionTeksavvy ExtremePremium
join:2008-01-24
Toronto, ON
kudos:1 | said by Anonymous_:It's very easy to mask you MAC address and change it as needed
So unless you need to register each address your good People did that in my residence thinking they were smart. Unfortunately traffic could also be tracked to the port. A few MAC addresses later they found themselves with an inactive ethernet port in their room for a semester. |
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said by XoX:We are talking about a learning center not a download center... They can pay with their own money if want to download the Internet...
If they have the option.. This is actually very discriminatory of on-campus students who don't have any other Internet options. The off-campus student can use his home connection for entertainment purposes, while the on-campus student doesn't have that alternative. Goes over the cap and can't use his connection for his homework. Many campuses don't allow installing your own and why would they if they're already paying more for their access than I am for 3.5x as much usage?
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
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