snipper_cr
join:2002-01-22
Wheaton, IL
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Re: Limited Bandwidth/no blocking or Unlimited Bandwidth/blockin
Another of my friends down at UofI had a very interesting story! So, routers are not allowed in the dorm rooms (not entirely sure why) but hubs and switches are so you can have multiple computers connected (great for seti farms).
Anyways, by putting a router in, they detect it and block internet to your room till you remove it. How do they detect it? A router increases TTL by 1 so they check for odd number of TTL. What my friend did, was use the WRT54GL router and put a different firmware on it and had it increase the TTL by one so the router actually increased the TTL by 2 so it was back to an even number... no problems all semester! Pure h@x skillz n00b :-P
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Joony
join:2001-12-08
Skokie, IL | I wonder if you can get Insight Cable Internet through the dorms, since you can apparently order additional TV services...
snipper, Did your friend use DD-WRT to increase the TTL? |
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z9_87
Ill - Ini
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join:2001-09-23
Urbana, IL
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| I'd bet he did use DD-WRT, notice the 54G'L' model.
But aside from that, I had a router behind the switch all last year and had no problems. Didn't mess with anything.
Also, uiuc, uses packet shaping to slow down your torrents and other common p2p protocols. Fortunately it doesn't mess with dc++ and encryption also solves this problem.
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snipper_cr
join:2002-01-22
Wheaton, IL
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| I have no particular use to use a router, just as long as I can use a switch (and not a hub) to connect my computers, alls good. Traffic shapping? Well not much you can download torrent wise with only 750 up/down (which means you can only download a 375 meg file if you want to 1:1 it and not get banned from the tracker). Encryption works though for traffic shapping? Good to know.
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z9_87
Ill - Ini
Premium
join:2001-09-23
Urbana, IL
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| figure out how slow you need to limit your download to and set that up so you dont go over the 750. Also you gan easily get away with about 3 different mac adresses per day 
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