I'm at SHU here in sunny old Sheffield, England. Notebooks aren't officially allowed on the network here yet, they were supposed to be this year but the powers that be never got their act together. They were going to implement some scheme where you register your MAC address and get your own IP. This year myself and loads of others at the uni have been acquiring some rather competitvely priced (half price) Dell Inspirons. Of course, we wanted to use them on the network so we just unplug a few of their crappy NT4 / Zennith / Netware f**k ups of desktop nastiness and steal the IPs. It then becomes apparent that the network actually is fairly fast and usable and its just Netware and Zennith etc. which makes it crawl (20 minute logins anyone?). Now we happily surf with near complete anonymity and oodles of speed (all the redhat 7 ISOs in about 20 mins). Now I just wish they'd upgrade to an OC-3 or maybe even 2 ala Manchester. I think we've got an E-3 at the moment. Oh yeah, if you're at Hallam by any chance (god help you) have a browse through the network for a load of win2000 boxes all named after pornstars (mines called Jenna!)
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I'm at SHU here in sunny old Sheffield, England. Notebooks aren't officially allowed on the network here yet, they were supposed to be this year but the powers that be never got their act together. They were going to implement some scheme where you register your MAC address and get your own IP. This year myself and loads of others at the uni have been acquiring some rather competitvely priced (half price) Dell Inspirons. Of course, we wanted to use them on the network so we just unplug a few of their crappy NT4 / Zennith / Netware f**k ups of desktop nastiness and steal the IPs. It then becomes apparent that the network actually is fairly fast and usable and its just Netware and Zennith etc. which makes it crawl (20 minute logins anyone?). Now we happily surf with near complete anonymity and oodles of speed (all the redhat 7 ISOs in about 20 mins). Now I just wish they'd upgrade to an OC-3 or maybe even 2 ala Manchester. I think we've got an E-3 at the moment. Oh yeah, if you're at Hallam by any chance (god help you) have a browse through the network for a load of win2000 boxes all named after pornstars (mines called Jenna!)