We didn't disable it, merely limited it. A university network is first and foremost an educational network, not a network for games. You, my half witted friend, are the anonymously posting, asshole.
i thought it was funny that people playing halo 3 could bring a network to it's knees, worth sharing for others to have a good laugh. It's my second week at this job -- my department isn't in control of the network outside of our building, but we work closely with those who are, which is how I found out about the issue.
We don't have a huge budget for our network, we're a state funded school with 30,000+ students. The oversight in shaping the UDP packets was a big oversight, which caused issues for nearly a week. Many students had issues getting into the servers to do their homework, and professors had issues checking their email.
The issue went right up the line. We have a couple of T1 lines coming in. Users connecting in remotely using time warner were experiencing the issues. The students in the dorms playing the new game were going using the dorms T1, which is also through by Time Warner. The servers experiencing the issues use a different T1 through a different ISP. It was only the remote users subscribing to Time Warner's high speed internet that had the remote issues. Students within the network had no known issues.
I never knew a college was a university... Boston U, Northeastern U, Harvard U, Berkeley U -- I just thought those schools were for smart people.
In all honesty, I would go the route of CS. I'm a UNIX admin / Sys admin, and the information that I've used in my day-to-day work generally is helped along by the education that I received from my CS degree. I'm constantly writing scripts and even small C/Java programs to automate daily tasks. Right now I'm working on my masters degree, and I am currently taking an IT course on Systems Programming -- and I have to say; the students in this class who are IT students are NOT the brightest bulbs. So, if you'd like a challenge, go CS.
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We didn't disable it, merely limited it. A university network is first and foremost an educational network, not a network for games. You, my half witted friend, are the anonymously posting, asshole.
i thought it was funny that people playing halo 3 could bring a network to it's knees, worth sharing for others to have a good laugh. It's my second week at this job -- my department isn't in control of the network outside of our building, but we work closely with those who are, which is how I found out about the issue. We don't have a huge budget for our network, we're a state funded school with 30,000+ students. The oversight in shaping the UDP packets was a big oversight, which caused issues for nearly a week. Many students had issues getting into the servers to do their homework, and professors had issues checking their email. The issue went right up the line. We have a couple of T1 lines coming in. Users connecting in remotely using time warner were experiencing the issues. The students in the dorms playing the new game were going using the dorms T1, which is also through by Time Warner. The servers experiencing the issues use a different T1 through a different ISP. It was only the remote users subscribing to Time Warner's high speed internet that had the remote issues. Students within the network had no known issues.
I never knew a college was a university... Boston U, Northeastern U, Harvard U, Berkeley U -- I just thought those schools were for smart people. In all honesty, I would go the route of CS. I'm a UNIX admin / Sys admin, and the information that I've used in my day-to-day work generally is helped along by the education that I received from my CS degree. I'm constantly writing scripts and even small C/Java programs to automate daily tasks. Right now I'm working on my masters degree, and I am currently taking an IT course on Systems Programming -- and I have to say; the students in this class who are IT students are NOT the brightest bulbs. So, if you'd like a challenge, go CS.