Cheap off-campus housing that allows a separate internet plan from the dorm?

StatusQuo
Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:10:07 +0000

Hi there, all. I’m currently a student at UCF possibly going into my last year next year.

I was wondering if any one knew of any off-campus housing that allows for an internet plan that is separate from the dorm? That is to say, essentially, you’d have your own internet connection and it is not being filtered by the dorm’s network admins?

The reason I ask of this is because Collegiate Village Inn (CVI) where I’m currently staying and have been staying for the past few years has gone a bit too far and has blocked a number of sites that I frequently visit. In addition, the internet situation here is horrible, as I frequently report less than 1 MB/s for downloads. YouTube videos take forever to download. In addition, everyone is behind a shared IP address, so I’ve ended up getting banned from sites where someone else in the dorm has done some mis-conduct.

I was going to e-mail the manager and ask why sites such as rapidshare and depositfiles have been blocked. Anyone familiar with either of those two sites know that they are merely filehosting sites. If any illegal content is detected, the moderation team at both sites remove the files. My guess was that it was a bandwidth issue.

Any way, I’d like to move to a dorm that either has a better internet policy than the one currently at CVI, or a dorm that allows the option of having your own subscription set up in your room, possibly. While CVI is a cheap place to live and living expenses have proven to be low, I feel like a caged hamster every time I go online for I can’t surf the web like a normal human being.