Downloading in College

hirako
Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:27:35 +0000

aforautumn:

they’re going to have a policy against server hosting, vpn, or any other service that enables people unauthorized access to their network

Except this is essentially unenforceable, so you should be good to go.



aforautumn:

unless you’re uploading several gigabytes in content regularly

I totally forgot about this one. You should definitely check your college’s policy on network traffic quotas (both upload and download) and make sure you don’t exceed it.

A good way of avoiding that problem is to share files within your college’s LAN, since that won’t count towards your quota. You can do this with software such as [url=http://dtella.org/]Dtella[/url].