internet traffic limiting in college

epsilon9090
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:37:28 +0000

Do they require you to authenticate to use their internet system? That is, do they force you to write down your MAC address and submit it to the IT guys to get your internet working?

If so, you can’t really do anything.

However, if they don’t do anything of the sort, there is a simple solution. Get this program right here: http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac/

It allows you to change your computer’s MAC address. Here is why this works:

To bottleneck a computer, as they are doing at your school, they need to find a way to verify each computer and how much it is downloading. A MAC address is sort of like a computer’s name: You can change it as much as you like and every time you do you start with a clean slate. As soon as you change the MAC, it is like a new computer has logged on to the network.