I am a junior here and the network hadn't been all too bad until they started banning stuff. Granted it sucked when we only had 3T1's for 4000 dorm users + faculty. Here's the scoop on the upgrade: During the summer of 99 the admin finally decided to allocate the money for a faster "commodity internet connection". presently we have one T3 directly to Georgia Tech as part of a link to the vBNS but that is only an "educational" link and basically we only see that speed if we're getting mp3's from GaTech:) or someone else on the vBNS. Our "Commodity Internet connection" is presently an "ATM 10-20 Mbit burst Expandable connection" or something like that containing those words not neccesarily in that order. usually I can get around 50-70K at 1pm during the day depending on where I go. Going through 2 years with Shit speed convinced the admin it was time to spend the big bucks and go for the ATM connection we have now. They put in a PIXen firewall between the dorm network and the rest of the world and basically, we have to authenticate with our e-mail password every 2 hours. they said it was "to protect the university leagally" but now we all see what they really intended it for. preserveing a monopoly over the students. it makes me wonder when they're going to ban www.varsitybooks.com and all those other online bookstores so they can continue to gouge us on the cost of books. I saved about $150 this semster on books from the internet. I hope they don't figure that one out. I completely agree with the mismanagement claims. They keep upgrading the Labs all over campus (about 500-700) computers every 6 months. there is usually about half a lab of pentium 3 600's sitting idle at any given time on campus. Gotta love when my I can dump my 266 with a tnt2u can't keep up with q2 with someone in a lab running in software mode. at a higher resolution.
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hehe, I should have told them to ban www.espn.com or something like that. our sysadmins are huge fsck-ups
Me letting them in on my joke
DCIT sysadmin's response my letting him know I knew the whole time
"Alright... so I didn't go to the site before adding it to the list. Big whoop.... I just did a DNS lookup.. added it to the list and boom, it was gone. See how cool my job is"
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I am a junior here and the network hadn't been all too bad until they started banning stuff. Granted it sucked when we only had 3T1's for 4000 dorm users + faculty. Here's the scoop on the upgrade: During the summer of 99 the admin finally decided to allocate the money for a faster "commodity internet connection". presently we have one T3 directly to Georgia Tech as part of a link to the vBNS but that is only an "educational" link and basically we only see that speed if we're getting mp3's from GaTech :) or someone else on the vBNS. Our "Commodity Internet connection" is presently an "ATM 10-20 Mbit burst Expandable connection" or something like that containing those words not neccesarily in that order. usually I can get around 50-70K at 1pm during the day depending on where I go. Going through 2 years with Shit speed convinced the admin it was time to spend the big bucks and go for the ATM connection we have now. They put in a PIXen firewall between the dorm network and the rest of the world and basically, we have to authenticate with our e-mail password every 2 hours. they said it was "to protect the university leagally" but now we all see what they really intended it for. preserveing a monopoly over the students. it makes me wonder when they're going to ban www.varsitybooks.com and all those other online bookstores so they can continue to gouge us on the cost of books. I saved about $150 this semster on books from the internet. I hope they don't figure that one out. I completely agree with the mismanagement claims. They keep upgrading the Labs all over campus (about 500-700) computers every 6 months. there is usually about half a lab of pentium 3 600's sitting idle at any given time on campus. Gotta love when my I can dump my 266 with a tnt2u can't keep up with q2 with someone in a lab running in software mode. at a higher resolution.
As soon as Northland Cable wakes up and gets cable modem's I'm moving off campus.