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UC Irvine Cracks Down on P2P
grendel20 writes "After years of dialup, one thing I was looking forward to the most about college was the fast ethernet connection. Upon arriving at UCI though, I found my kazaa speeds to be way below subpar. Apparently, UCI has limited access for all P2P programs with this fine piece of hardware. Now what do I do?" Whether you agree with what UC Irvine is doing or not, I do applaud them for publicizing and being straightforward about it. Upstream entities can implement these sorts of controls without telling users, and it's tempting to do so because it will reduce the number of user complaints.
be happy you got anything... sniveling little whiny bitch.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. -Benjamin Franklin
Yeah, packetshitter can suck my butt. I went to Hillsdale College. We had nothing but problems. They just grouped all FTP/Gaming ports into one. So, our Ping would be 60 for a minute and then spike to 10,000. Oh, and it didn't stop people from transferring files. People found out AIMster wasn't "shapped" as well as a couple other programs. Oh, and it just decided to crap out every 18 hours or so. IOW, at 10pm every night it would die and then the lazy admin wouldn't make it back in until 8am. What a jerk. So, me and my suitemates shared a Cable Modem which was insanely faster. Well, that's my rant for the evening. In summary, packetshitter made it just as unpleasant for the users if not more so than the Kazaa users. Oh, and the kazaa users pay and didn't cost friggin' $10,000. BLAH!!!! Morons