At my college (U of I in Urbana-Champ.) in my dorm they cap us at 750 megs down and 250 megs up. This is rather limiting to us, but it IS pretty fair. We can download an ISO in a day, or even a movie + some change. We have enough upload capacity to run a half life server for a few hours. And if we DO break the limit, we get cut off until 8 am the next morning. And they even lock our mac addresses so we can't steal our roomates port (well without the wonders of linux and ifconfig).
This may sound like a BAD limit, but I am glad it is there. Before - we were lucky to get 5KB/sec, due to about a dozen users using 5-10 gigs a day for warez. However - on a residential service where I pay $50 a month (vs $150 for the year here) I would dam well drop the service the day they told me how much I could download. If possible, I will get DSL in the future to avoid the pesky @home upload cap. It is not enjoyable uploading 50 megs to my web server at 128kbps.
As far as I know, we have had a Cave down at the U of I for several years? I have never been in it, but it IS supposed to exist. So what is special about this?
P.S. If you are ever down here, stay away from Beckman! Many young lads enter, few are ever seen again...
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At my college (U of I in Urbana-Champ.) in my dorm they cap us at 750 megs down and 250 megs up. This is rather limiting to us, but it IS pretty fair. We can download an ISO in a day, or even a movie + some change. We have enough upload capacity to run a half life server for a few hours. And if we DO break the limit, we get cut off until 8 am the next morning. And they even lock our mac addresses so we can't steal our roomates port (well without the wonders of linux and ifconfig). This may sound like a BAD limit, but I am glad it is there. Before - we were lucky to get 5KB/sec, due to about a dozen users using 5-10 gigs a day for warez. However - on a residential service where I pay $50 a month (vs $150 for the year here) I would dam well drop the service the day they told me how much I could download. If possible, I will get DSL in the future to avoid the pesky @home upload cap. It is not enjoyable uploading 50 megs to my web server at 128kbps.
Does it play Quake3 any better? The old one was pretty deent from what I hear...
As far as I know, we have had a Cave down at the U of I for several years? I have never been in it, but it IS supposed to exist. So what is special about this? P.S. If you are ever down here, stay away from Beckman! Many young lads enter, few are ever seen again...