numba1

Do colleges restrict the websites that can be accessed in the dorms?

-Lurker-

do you need porn that much? :P they could, i'm sure some do and some don't.

UB-Vinny77

Call your schools IT department and ask./

demerdar

I dont know of any schools that restrict access on the internet. Except for maybe using too much bandwith using torrents and whatnot.

wev162

Unless you're headed to a private school that has certain morality standards like some religous schools do, you should be fine looking at whatever you wish as long as its legal to do so.

ksanders

The University of Florida does not filter HTTP access (websites), but it does have an active scanner on the network called ICARUS that monitors student activity on popular p2p programs (limewire, bittorrent, irc transferring, etc) and shuts down your connection.

fendergirl

yeah, my college monitored for viruses and shut down your connection if it found one. i was bittorrenting something once and they saw all this abnormal activity coming from my computer and shut it down, then they realized it was just a bittorrent and put the internet back on again.

huskem55

within the past 2 years, columbia has suspended several people for downloading music, and has threatened to sue them and fine them something like $10,000 (I'm not sure about the outcome)

fendergirl

while i don't agree with the fine amount, i'm very anti-downloading music. probably one of the few 23 year olds who is.

riptide88

apple offers to sue you if they catch you, then they offer to save the time and settle with you for 10k, of course 100k+ or 10k you take the 10k and walk away without a fight. sry kinda off topic but clearing up the question about how big is the fine.

Icarus

UCLA doesn't monitor or restrict internet usage whatsoever. There is a packet-shaper, but that is a passive measure that only directs which packets have priority over others. It really doesn't slow down the network at all.

towerpumpkin

Cornell limits outgoing bandwidth to 5GB/month and then charges $1.50 for each GB over. There aren't any restrictions otherwise here.

rytis

1. Do many college kids pump much porn to their computers in dorms?
2. How can you be so sure that in UCLA or Cornell they do not monitor sites you are visiting?

dusk123

what's the best free anti-virus scanner out there that will actually DESTROY these two currently imprisoned Trojan viruses on my computer?

tchaikovsky

Great, I'll now have an eery feeling of Big Brother over my shoulder every time I use the internet on campus.