<p>what is UA’s internet policy like? are students allowed to use VPN’s for privacy reasons, and to connect to their home computers? are there blocking filters? bandwidth limits? </p>
<p>also, who is the isp? the university or a third party? thanks :D</p>
<p>A list of rules governing use of UA’s ResNet can be found at [Networking</a> Acceptable Use Agreement](<a href=“http://oit.ua.edu/services/resnet/about/acceptuse.html]Networking”>http://oit.ua.edu/services/resnet/about/acceptuse.html) . Apart from certain file sharing services, I do not know of any websites that are blocked on ResNet. While I am not aware of a specific bandwidth limit, I would assume that UA reserves the right to limit bandwidth usage, though I haven’t known anyone affected by such a policy. AFAIK, the university is the ISP. Last year I remember all online services being down during a period of very low use so that UA could update its servers.</p>