<p>I will be staring as an upper-divison transfer at Cal State Chico and I know that campus dorimtories place restrictions and monitor your web usage.</p>
<p>In order to avoid this, I plan on transferring my current AT&T DSL service I use at home and having it set-up in my dormitory. This is so that I will be using my own network and not the school’s network hence avoiding all the hassle.</p>
<p>I don’t think that’s allowed. Definitely check with the school first.</p>
<p>No they do not allow it. The only way to do it would be through something like a satellite connection, wireless, 3g/4g cell phone data etc.</p>
<p>They won’t let you wire in your own dsl or cable internet connection.</p>
<p>They phone line is already provided. How do you think students get their phone service? They also provide cable lines.</p>
<p>All I will be doing is setting up my current DSL service in my dorm room.</p>
<p>I don’t know of any college which allows this in an on-campus dorm. You need to contact Resnet at your school. </p>
<p>All dorm rooms include a cable outlet for your TV hookup and a phone outlet.
Some schools provide free premium channels. Some schools only provide basic cable.
According to the Cal State Chico site, it appears that you will have basic cable provided by the school. Simply plug in your cable wire and you get the channels.</p>
<p>For the phone line, plug in the phone and you will automatically receive all incoming calls free of charge. Most students usually just use their cell phones rather than set up their dorm room phone for the additional expense of making outgoing calls.</p>
<p>You must use the schools internet. Directions for setting up your computer for on-campus internet and network can be found on the school’s website. </p>
<p>I seriously doubt you will be allowed to set up DSL in your dorm room. If this is a priority to you, then you may want to consider living off-campus. In other words, if you live on-campus, you must abide by the residence hall policies.</p>
<p>Call the school and ask about your plan. Don’t assume that it is doable.</p>
<p>Have you researched into exactly how much they monitor/restrict usage?</p>
<p>For example, at my university, the monitoring only extends as far as checking how much usage you have, and restrictions only apply towards a certain (very low) bandwidth limit.</p>
<p>If that’s the case, then you don’t have much to worry about. The dorm internet is most likely to be much faster than anything you can get commercially. As for large usages, if the dorms do cap your usage, you will usually have some options.</p>
<p>If you’re truly afraid of monitoring, you can use something like iPredator or any other privacy-oriented VPN service. Everything going thru the connection will be strongly encrypted, and that’ll render any attempts at monitoring useless, except for usage.</p>
<p>Because of how the wiring in the dorms usually work, it’s most likely technically impossible for DSL to be installed. The same applies for cable internet.</p>
<p>If having your own internet really matters to you, consider off-campus housing.</p>
<p>Living off-campus isn’t feasable for me. I’m heavily reliable on financial aid and I was luky I got enough funds for the on-campus housing. I doubt financial will cover an off-campus apartment plus utilities (on-campus the university provides utilities).</p>
<p>I’ll ask if this is possible but I’ve already come up with another solution.
I just recieved the new HTC Evo 4G on Sprint and it acts as a mobile hotspot so I can switch to that connection whenever I want to do something that I don’t want the university to see.</p>
<p>From my understanding you are able to use your own wireless service. I have a few relatives who have accounts with sprint ( I think) and simply have to snap in a drive to their notebook and have wireless internet access. I do know universities monitor property own computers. Though I will not be suprise if they also monitor any pc using their network. As others stated if you can not use a wireless service and refuse to abide by the rules then best option is to look for off campus housing or when ever you feel you want privacy go somewhere off campus and use your personal network.</p>
<p>Nope, no way you can do it in a dorm.</p>
<p>The cable is probably campus provided, no way to do a modem on it.</p>
<p>The phone line is also campus provided and won’t support DSL. DSL has special requirements (being within a certain wire distance of a center, having appropriate frequencies allocated, etc) that won’t work with a campus phone system.</p>
<p>Most schools don’t place any restrictions or monitoring that are any different than a traditional ISP.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure you can just download the Internet and then burn it onto a CD-ROM and then install it once you get in your dorm room.</p>
<p>Well I won’t be living in a traditional residence hall but rather an off-campus apartment complex that is owned and operated by the university. Since it is still considered a part of university housing I may still be under their restrictions.</p>
<p>And download the internet onto a CD-ROM? Come on now!</p>
<p>Then it depends who provides the phone service…the phone company or the campus. If the phone company provides it chances are you may be able to set up your own service…if it’s campus provided, you cannot.</p>
<p>Although you’re still crazy to pay for your own internet.</p>
<p>They monitor usage at every school I know of. I’m pretty sure that’s not allowed. At the very least, it could create IT issues for them by introducing a new way for things to go wrong. At the very worst, it can be used to circumvent their rules (which it is). Just because there’s a phone line and it’s technically possible for you to do so doesn’t mean that the school will let you do so. It’s their building, their rules.</p>
<p>An alternative could be one of those mobile internet services from Verizon or something, where you plug a USB dongle into your laptop and get internet usage through their wireless network.</p>
<p>I don’t know what you mean by monitoring usage in that context though. Your ISP can monitor your usage as well. Yeah, your school probably monitors how much bandwidth you use and if your a heavy file sharer or anything - but any other ISP monitors the same thing.</p>
<p>ISPs do do the same thing, but they generally care about you less. After all, they have several million others to look after. At your average university, it shrinks to around 20k people, and that’s the general student population. The number dorming is bound to be less than that. Less people to monitor=more attention/scrutiny you can afford.</p>
<p>Yeah, a CD-ROM is probably too small for the internet.<br>
Try an external HD instead.</p>
<p>Okay, maybe you’re right about the CD-ROM’s being too small. If you have a blu-ray burner, a BD-ROM should do fine, and it’s much more convenient than bring an external hard drive whenever you want to install the internet on a new machine.</p>