said by pnjunction: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.
That would be sufficient enough grounds to withdraw from the university, my question would be why didn't they given it was an essential function to perform course work correctly.
Nowadays most University IT departments would be looking at expulsion under Senate by-laws for equipment tampering because of that.
said by pnjunction: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.
a couple of sends/recives of very large Capstone Design Plans (master autocad files for the whole project) would eat that 4GB quota up in a day (1.2/1.3 gigs each). I know I was using about 25% of that quota a day in 2003 due to Power Point based lecture notes at Windsor.
(thankfully I lived off campus and they sub-contrated out to Cogeco so it was more "reasonable")
My sister in York wound up with 10 GB MONTH in data in res. They didn't care wither it was internal or external data either.
They required NAS on all student CPE that took admin access out of students hands too.
I would hate to see with these insane limits what would happen when offsite multimedia based lectures become the norm on campus and they stop producing paper based assignments and textbooks...
Ive seen faculty vs IT political football matches in the past too...
Their not fun.