Aw Fuck

Ok, I went over my bandwidth in my dorm, so I’m not all that happy.

Basically, the UConn network gives you 5 Gigs for any given 7 days. I knew this was going to be a problem once I heard about it. I can go over 5 gigs in a day if I’m working on something.

If you go over this limit, they knock you down to about 56k speed for a week. If you do it three times, they’ll knock you down to that speed for the rest of the semester.

The thing is, they don’t have any way of letting you know how much bandwidth you’ve used. You can tell what your usage has been for the last week, but not for the current day.

They send you a nice little email telling you that you’ve made a boo-boo, and what the consequences are. They also say several times in the email that your P2P apps will be incredibly slow or non-functional. So I assume this bandwidth cap is in place to limit P2P downloading, keep their students from getting caught and sued, and keeping their names out of the papers.

Perhaps 5% of the total bandwidth I used in the last 7 days have been on a P2P network, and they were on Bittorrent downloading a legitimate file.
Even more was on Yahoo! Music, who I subscribe to. Yahoo! is not P2P, not at all.

This system is bogus. They limit legitimate downloads in their attempt to stop filesharing at their school.

I really, really hate ignorance.