My university shuts down your internet access very quickly if you're caught torrenting. The first 3 hours during move in day someone had their internet shut off for torrenting....you get a few warnings though.
My university shuts down your internet access very quickly if you're caught torrenting. The first 3 hours during move in day someone had their internet shut off for torrenting....you get a few warnings though.
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Unless it's an academy, schools are technically council owned. Schools should block most pirate portals anyway (not saying they're successful). I'm guessing it's illegal anywhere, but internet/data/information laws are veeery vague, no governing force on the internet means that the country you're in affects how you use the internet. I say meh and pirate at school.
Gah.. My internet pisses me off!
On my work laptop I get this:
On my stationary tower pc I get this:
And on my gaming laptop I can't connect to the internet at all!
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At home we have around 4/5mbps. At uni my brother gets 60mbps, but he can't use it for torrents and all the good stuff because they monitor what happens on their connection.
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Honestly, I'd just rent a box overseas and setup a VPN. Cheap, effective.
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Maybe something wrong with your wireless router?
Yeah, we figured it out, it was the router
It wasn't in sync with the 'main' router..
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So can someone help me out.. I have a plan with my ISP that pays for 20mb/s download rate. But when downloading I frequently max out at 2.5mb/s! Why?!
Also, speedtest.net registers my dl speed as 20mb/s. wtf?
^ Yer, thats one of the cheap marketing tricks companies use to sell their products(because mb is quite different from mB)
Its not a mixup, thats what the companies use to sell their stuff. Eg: if they wanted to sell a usb, they'd say its 4gb, when its actual capacity is less because they measure it differently on purpose.The difference might not be much when its small, but it rises exponentially as the number increases.
P.S. People are not aware that its a marketing technique because its been in use for years.
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Alright now heres the deal, yes when you hear kbps and mbps, it is measured in a metric system. But you have to realize it's a metric representation of bits. 1000 bits = 1 kbps. There are 8 bits to a byte. There is no mix up here, no marketing techniques. I even pointed this out in my post.
Forget about hard drive's capacity for a second, because we aren't measuring storage when you measure the throughput of your connection. Nobody that I know of sells their connections in bytes. There is no conversion problem here because we are already at the lowest amount of information possible. I could say I am selling a bajillian bit line, and you'd know how many bits you were getting and if you were so inclined, you could do the conversion yourself to find out how many exabytes a second that is.
It's still a marketing technique, Capricorn.. Just because you are aware of what they actually mean, it's not like they do it for the technical terms, they do it for business. Most people buying computer-related things which have anything to do with bytes or bits aren't very much aware of the difference. If you think it's specifically to be technical, you're an idiot and don't understand that virtually everything done today is done specifically for sales.
Yes, I know that you got your facts right, but I'm saying that companies take advantage of the average person who has no idea what the difference between a bit and byte(for an average person, its something like, sounds the same so it probably is the same). We're both right.
I only get around 650kb download, but hey what can I say I live in Australia, 50kb/s is considered fast
My plan is 5mb/s down 0.50mb/s up, TBH I dont care about the upload speed, it doesn't benefit me that much its the download speed I care about. The plan I got is the best for my area
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