MAZDA is established and respected? Maybe. Compared to Porsche? Are you high?
Porsche has been racing and winning for more than 50 years - including 4 wins in Monte Carlo and 2 in the Paris-Dakar Rally.
Japanese manufacturers hardly had a presence in rallying before just recently in the WRC. I mean.. I'm confused. Mazda? Racing history? Umm..
I attend Western Washington University, and we've been using Packeteer for (if memory serves) a year now. Our situation is a little different, let me explain why.
First off, Western isn't a small school, but with about 12,000 enrolled, it's not small either. About 3,500 live on campus and on the WWU LAN. The internet connection afforded to the residence halls is in the form of a fractional T3, of which we lease a 1.5mbyte/sec connection. Back in 2000, when school started we had less than half that connection, and Napster was at its peak. It's probably not necessary to say that our network connection was completely laid to waste by the massive amount of traffic requested of it.
When Packeteer was introduced at the beginning of last year, things seemed mostly normal. HTTP traffic moved along nicely. Then, ResTek (the group who handles the residential network) decided to limit our traffic to 300MB a day, and if you went over it more than once, you would get your port pulled. However, this was made tolerable because from 2am to 10am, you could rape the internet as much as you damn well pleased without repercussion.
After massive complaining, though, they started implementing this homebrew traffic limiter which sharply cut your bandwidth as you downloaded, and quickly made online gaming impossible.
However, we've began to cope with it. We have local game servers, and a local DirectConnect hub which has become a good place to hang out, meet people, and exchange files.
I'm curious though, what kind of connections other colleges of our size have. 1.5MB/s seems quite measly for 3,500 people (granted, not all of them use the net for much more than email).
If you head over to ResTek's webpage, check out the bandwidth section, specifically the FAQ and see what you all think. I'm curious.
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MAZDA is established and respected? Maybe. Compared to Porsche? Are you high? Porsche has been racing and winning for more than 50 years - including 4 wins in Monte Carlo and 2 in the Paris-Dakar Rally. Japanese manufacturers hardly had a presence in rallying before just recently in the WRC. I mean.. I'm confused. Mazda? Racing history? Umm..
I attend Western Washington University, and we've been using Packeteer for (if memory serves) a year now. Our situation is a little different, let me explain why.
First off, Western isn't a small school, but with about 12,000 enrolled, it's not small either. About 3,500 live on campus and on the WWU LAN. The internet connection afforded to the residence halls is in the form of a fractional T3, of which we lease a 1.5mbyte/sec connection. Back in 2000, when school started we had less than half that connection, and Napster was at its peak. It's probably not necessary to say that our network connection was completely laid to waste by the massive amount of traffic requested of it.
When Packeteer was introduced at the beginning of last year, things seemed mostly normal. HTTP traffic moved along nicely. Then, ResTek (the group who handles the residential network) decided to limit our traffic to 300MB a day, and if you went over it more than once, you would get your port pulled. However, this was made tolerable because from 2am to 10am, you could rape the internet as much as you damn well pleased without repercussion.
After massive complaining, though, they started implementing this homebrew traffic limiter which sharply cut your bandwidth as you downloaded, and quickly made online gaming impossible.
However, we've began to cope with it. We have local game servers, and a local DirectConnect hub which has become a good place to hang out, meet people, and exchange files.
I'm curious though, what kind of connections other colleges of our size have. 1.5MB/s seems quite measly for 3,500 people (granted, not all of them use the net for much more than email).
If you head over to ResTek's webpage, check out the bandwidth section, specifically the FAQ and see what you all think. I'm curious.