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user224@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago> Live on a dorm
> There’s lots of people
> Cell towers are motherfuckingly overloaded during the day
> 0.09Mbps down, 4.5Mbps up and > 300ms on 4G
grue@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
What kind of shitty-ass dorm relies on cellular connections? When I was in college, we had wired ethernet in the dorms and then wifi on top of that. Piracy was huge, in part because it was a lot of folks’ first opportunity to have a fast connection, LOL.
(Admittedly, that was at a research university that had been sitting directly on internet backbone since the NSFNET days, but still…!)
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
We have that available, I just use mobile data because I disagree with their ToS.
The ToS is so restrictive that you basically immediately break it after connecting a device. I was told that, of course, they don’t really care.
Except - there is a point stating the provider has the right to access your computer if there is a suspicion of ToS violation. Considering the network here is a student-run organization, that could easily be exploited if you piss off someone.
Maybe I am just paranoid, but no thanks.
Otherwise, from talking with them, most dorms have 1Gbit, some have 2.5Gbit, and all share a 40Gbit link which could apparently do 100Gbit (I think), but it’s capped due to licensing.
They leverage national academic network.
Oh, and they also got a class B subnet back when everyone was sure there’s just way too many IPv4s, so NAT isn’t being used here.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Mm who wants to rely on someone keeping a verbal promise when it says in writing something like your privacy is at stake?
MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
You are not paranoid. People were sued and jailed under CFAA interpretation that violation of ToS is a federal crime.
eff.org/…/federal-judge-rules-it-not-crime-violat…
I was under impression that this is still the case after listening to a few of DarkNet Diaries recent episodes.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Ah good old dorms. My first t3 line. So much media downloaded, uh, with the express written consent of the license holders I swear