What to Pack?

jdouglassmith wrote: »

ooohhh interesting. Any idea how much it costs?

Why would you bother?
Seriously, there's a million and one other things to do that don't involve having SKY.

Johnies

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

The HEANET line is actually Gigabit but I dont know the limitations on the Halls link(note: this is not the most reliable :P) but in any case the whole system is levelled, you will never actually get anything more than like 20Mb and thats just for a peak.

The other things to note are the restrictions of the proxy. No gaming unless you can run it through 80/443, not torrents, some problems with streams, and the annoying moments when a proxy refuses to return a page. But hey, its free, so no complaints.

Actually, no, you're wrong. The HEAnet line is 10GB going into college (at least.) They're rolling out 10GB in certain areas of college, and most desktop points in college are GB. the line in Halls is 100Mb, not 20Mb, and I can tell you from both experience and from official info this is true. I've happily hit 12MB/s at times downloading in Halls (bottleneck being the write speed of my hard drive *grumbles*)
All the traffic in college goes through a proxy, which is more of a problem than the ports being blocked (There are other open ports, 8080 for example, and 21 as FTP, not sure on 22 though)

Even if you do get past it (Which isn't difficult) everything is monitored, so expect to be cut off if you're torrenting/downloading heavily

EDIT:
yes all you need is an ethernet cable.

Groinshot wrote: »

Actually, no, you're wrong. The HEAnet line is 10GB going into college (at least.) They're rolling out 10GB in certain areas of college, and most desktop points in college are GB. the line in Halls is 100Mb, not 20Mb, and I can tell you from both experience and from official info this is true. I've happily hit 12MB/s at times downloading in Halls (bottleneck being the write speed of my hard drive *grumbles*)
All the traffic in college goes through a proxy, which is more of a problem than the ports being blocked (There are other open ports, 8080 for example, and 21 as FTP, not sure on 22 though)

Even if you do get past it (Which isn't difficult) everything is monitored, so expect to be cut off if you're torrenting/downloading heavily

EDIT:
yes all you need is an ethernet cable.

**Facepalm**

Its too early for specs. Yes, the HEA line is 10Gb.

I'm aware that there are more than just a few ports open, but the in simple terms the restrictions are as above.


"the line in Halls is 100Mb, not 20Mb, and I can tell you from both experience and from official info this is true."

It may be the case that halls isnt balanced, but I'd be surprised by that. The rest of the student access points operate on a system whereas you are heavily throttled after a short period. Either way, contention during peak would drive practical limits down.


The line is really dead over the summer, the average usage over the last month was 0.3%D/0.8%.

Will ask the USG peeps tomorrow what the story with residential connections is

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

**Facepalm**
Its too early for specs. Yes, the HEA line is 10Gb.
I'm aware that there are more than just a few ports open, but the in simple terms the restrictions are as above.
"the line in Halls is 100Mb, not 20Mb, and I can tell you from both experience and from official info this is true."
It may be the case that halls isnt balanced, but I'd be surprised by that. The rest of the student access points operate on a system whereas you are heavily throttled after a short period. Either way, contention during peak would drive practical limits down.
The line is really dead over the summer, the average usage over the last month was 0.3%D/0.8%.
Will ask the USG peeps tomorrow what the story with residential connections is

facepalm???
I have a newsletter from may 2010 from ISS stating the 10GB network was due for completion in June 2010, and there was downtime over the summer, and again over this summer.
Either way, once you go past 100MB none of us are going to notice a difference unless we've got Gigabit ethernet cards, (which I don't...)

in simple terms the restrictions are "anything that can be sent as regular http/https traffic"
There's a certain amount of balancing on the entwork, as it's spread accross multiple nodes in halls, and accross multiple proxy servers on the ISS end.

Contention during peak time does drive practical limits down,but not by as much as you're suggesting. I very rarely found my speed dropping below 50Mb, and when it did there was a problem somewhere else, not just throttling.

Sparticle wrote: »

All this talk of mb/s is making me dizzy. The best I can get out here is an O2 dongle which at best gives 300kb/s with 15GB limit with 190 latency.

I've learned patience at least .

I remember having 30000 latency at my friend's house before.

M_ark wrote: »

...mb/s? :O Out in the styx here the best I get is 80kb/s and I thought that was average!

Yeah we've got the same! So can you still download via http websites? Oh and there were some good looking basses earlier on in the thread, I'll be bringing my strat and 5watt valve amp down if anyone fancies a jam!

I'm bringing a hair dryer to keep myself warm. +1 for innovation.

Against boards TOS so I cant answer that.....

That is genius! I am definatly bringing monopoly!!

monopoly party in 81.19!!!:P