UC Irvine Cracks Down on P2P

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday September 29, 2002 @01:55PM from the sloooower-and-sloooooooowwwwweeerrrrr dept.

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.

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Device by siliconshock.com · 2002-09-29 14:02 · Score: 5, Informative

Packetshaper Actual Device.
Re:Interesting... by Psx29 · 2002-09-29 14:16 · Score: 4, Informative

This would be a great feature for P2P developers to add - the ability to first search an internal network for your file before resorting to a search of the wider internet.
The GPL-licensed gnucleus gnutella P2P client has a version specifically for this.
From the site: "Gnucleus LAN - If your college blocks gnutella use this to create an internal network for you and your friends. General rule is if you can play network games over your school network, gnucleus will also work. This version can be run on the same computer as the internet version."