Downloading in College

GoldShadow
Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:48:39 +0000

Apparentally I have to register a computer to use the internet at my school (or something like that - I don’t really understand how that works. Is it nonsense?)

I think it’s this way at most schools; they don’t want non-employees and non-students using the network and taking up bandwith, or employees and students using up too much bandwith (which would cost them in some form).

500 gigs a month is a lot; my school has a limit of 10 GB for any given 7 day period, so roughly 40 gigs a month. After 10 gigs they limit internet speed to discourage use until you fall below the limit again.

I don’t know how it is at other schools but I imagine several hundred GBs a month or TBs a month might not fly.

edit: regarding hirako’s post, 5 GB a day! That’s quite a bit. So I guess it is heavily variable depending on school.