eircon bb on campus

JoseJones · 26-09-2007 6:12pm #1

would there be any problem with getting in eircom bb in on campus accommodation? would it be possible to do without anyone knowing?

rmacm · 26-09-2007 6:48pm

I would say probably not a chance....why on earth would you want to do this anyway? If you want broadband of your own move to off campus accommodation and order it. If it's an issue of not being able to use Bit Torrent etc over the campus network UL are well within their rights to restrict this and if you're living in campus accommodation you'll have to put up with it.

Cheers
Rory

kaimera · 26-09-2007 7:29pm

I would say probably not a chance....why on earth would you want to do this anyway? If you want broadband of your own move to off campus accommodation and order it. If it's an issue of not being able to use Bit Torrent etc over the campus network UL are well within their rights to restrict this and if you're living in campus accommodation you'll have to put up with it.

QFT.

Why bother with €ircon when you've got a HEAnet backboned network into the college accomodation?
Like Rory said, if it's because your torrents etc aren't up to your liking, move off campus and then get it in.

Why on earth would they let eircom come in when the Uni has their own contractor that deal with the network infrastructre?

JoseJones · 27-09-2007 12:01am

yep, torrents...thinking about it, eircom probably won't work because the phone line is kind of restricted i think...probably have to go for that ripwave broadband in a box...

JoseJones · 27-09-2007 12:05am

If it's an issue of not being able to use Bit Torrent etc over the campus network UL are well within their rights to restrict this and if you're living in campus accommodation you'll have to put up with it.

I know they're within their rights, I never said they weren't...I am putting up with it, so i'm looking for a way to get around it...

zilog_jones · 27-09-2007 2:00pm

JoseJones wrote:

yep, torrents...thinking about it, eircom probably won't work because the phone line is kind of restricted i think

It's probably not an eircom phone line going to the houses. I'd say they're all connected to a PBX somewhere.

And Ripwave is shyte. I doubt they'd let you attach some external aerial on the wall/roof for Digiweb or other wireless internets either.

rmacm · 27-09-2007 3:44pm

zilog_jones wrote:

It's probably not an eircom phone line going to the houses. I'd say they're all connected to a PBX somewhere.

And Ripwave is shyte. I doubt they'd let you attach some external aerial on the wall/roof for Digiweb or other wireless internets either.

Those phones in the on campus accomodation are proper phones but as you said they are all connected to a PBX.....which makes getting DSL a bit more complicated.

Indeed the Buildings Department/Village management wouldn't be too pleased with a jolly work man coming along and sticking an aerial on the side of the building.

Cheers
Rory

JoseJones · 27-09-2007 6:43pm

And Ripwave is shyte.

really? what's wrong with it?

zilog_jones · 27-09-2007 9:24pm

I have no first-hand experience, but judging by what people have said in the Broadband forum it's just useless. The only wireless broadband services that seem to work properly are the ones that use outdoor aerials, like Digiweb Metro.

Patricide · 29-09-2007 7:17pm

yea or you could use one of the vodafone or 3 or o2 2g broadband yolks, they arent great but a handy dandy alternitive to ul broadband.

JoseJones · 30-09-2007 12:31am

would they be ok for downloading torrents? they don't block torrents or anything do they? would i get decent speeds?

Patricide · 30-09-2007 1:45am

no they dont block torrents, sometimes you get good speeds somtimes you dont but there handy cause you have broadband anywhere with a 3g signal, so on the bus etc aswell.the stronger the signal the better the speed.

sdanseo · 30-09-2007 1:53am

Patricide wrote:

no they dont block torrents, sometimes you get good speeds somtimes you dont but there handy cause you have broadband anywhere with a 3g signal, so on the bus etc aswell.the stronger the signal the better the speed.

They also have monitored, and fairly limited downloads. If you go over, you pay moronic amounts of money, so not really an option for torrents.

Peteee · 30-09-2007 3:45am

Patricide wrote:

yea or you could use one of the vodafone or 3 or o2 2g broadband yolks, they arent great...

Theres a huge thread in broadband about how 3G broadband is a big pile of ****e, how oversubscribed it is, and how woefully inadequate the infrastructure in general is. And to top it off, a 10GB cap, which isn't gonna last long under torrents anyway, assuming they haven't throttled it out right.

Seconding or thirding what Rmacm and Kaimera said. If you want torrents move off campus.

JoseJones · 30-09-2007 11:54am

right, so it seems getting bb here other than the ul network is probably not an option...so what would be the best way to get stuff from my pc back home. i could get someone at home to download the torrents for me but how could i get them here? rapidshare etc?

kaimera · 30-09-2007 12:08pm

Theres a huge thread in broadband about how 3G broadband is a big pile of ****e, how oversubscribed it is, and how woefully inadequate the infrastructure in general is

If you mean [thread=2055115306]this[/thread] thread, is that not just 3 broadband. not all 3G?

Get someone to post you down dvds

Or buy a rapidshare account.

rmacm · 30-09-2007 2:38pm

JoseJones wrote:

so what would be the best way to get stuff from my pc back home. i could get someone at home to download the torrents for me but how could i get them here? rapidshare etc?

Are you a Comp Sys student by any chance? Anyway there's a number of options. As you mentioned get a Rapid Share account which would work. You could also set up a linux server at home and use SSH to log in to it and start/stop torrents. Then you could use FTP to transfer them to your machine in college.

Cheers
Rory

P.S. I'm drunk (or else very hungover I haven't decided which yet) and I think you should try to google a bit more.....I wanted to scream random abuse in this post but someone with slightly more sense than me said I shouldn't.

1huge1 · 03-10-2007 6:03pm

Might not be the fastest choice but if you just want to get torrents cheaply, use either vodafone's or 3's hspda services
3's is €19 a month for 3.6mb and all it is something like a usb stick you plug into your usb port

Edit: sorry should of read some earlier posts but still for €19 a month like and the ability to go almost anywere in the country with it

Y2J_MUFC · 18-10-2007 10:55pm

There is one option, and only one option..... Get around the proxy. I'm happily downloading torrents on campus!

rmacm · 18-10-2007 11:08pm

Y2J_MUFC wrote: »

There is one option, and only one option..... Get around the proxy. I'm happily downloading torrents on campus!

If you're living on campus this is indeed your only option and it is doable but I have to add it is against the HEAnet and IT aup (acceptable usage policy). So by doing this you risk losing network access permanently and there may be potential there for being hauled in front of the college disiplinary committee.

If you want freedom to do whatever you want with your net connection move off campus and get broadband and mess about to your hearts content.

Cheers
Rory

eircon bb on campus

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