Port Forwarding for Dummies...? (Or a College Kid)

[LethalWolfe]

As other posters have said P2P traffic will just flat out kill a universities network speed. Back when I was in college (when the first P2P apps really started taking off) our connection speed just tanked (slower than dial-up and heaven help you if you wanted to check your e-mail in a timely manor) until they put controls in place to control the amount of bandwidth being used. There are also legal issues for a university to consider. If hundreds of gigs (if not terabytes) of copyrighted files are flying around the university's network they will be contacted by the MPAA or the RIAA.

Yes you are paying for the connection, but you are also paying to live in the dorms and I know there are dorm rules you have to follow too. There is always the option to live off campus and get DSL or cable internet.


Lethal

 

[tuartboy]

you mean 1000 students correct?

100kb * 100 = 10,000kb = 10mb
100kb * 10,000 = 1,000,000kb = 1,000mb

No, I meant 10,000 students.

 

[tuartboy]

well if the IT dep. set up the network in a crappy manner, which might be possible becuase 100mb to support an entire university seams kinda low.

100mbs is perfectly adequate for a number of large organisations. It really depends how well the bandwidth is shaped. I know of a local university that has a 20mb connection for 2,500 on-campus students + staff and faculty and they do perfectly fine.

Most larger universities do have much better connections, however.

 

[trainguy77]

Yes traffic-shapers are a must in large organizations. the reason the WoW update was going slow was probably do to this. It would probably be classified as non-important traffic on a non-standard port. So if it was not on port 80 or other core port number it would be slowed down as it does not have anything to do with school. As school is only needs http, pop3, smtp and such.

 

[Fearless Leader]

100kb * 100 = 10,000kb = 10mb
100kb * 10,000 = 1,000,000kb = 1,000mb

No, I meant 10,000 students.

looks like we were both a bit confused. i thought you ment 10,000 students to get to 100mb but you were correcting my awful do it in my head math