[aashu.dwivedi]

i was wondering college adminstration wastes so much resources and time in blocking and censoring internet usage for students ..and students waste an equally respectable amount of time in get around it .wouldn't the whole system will become more productive if 24X7 full internet access is provided to the students .

This post has been edited by aashu.dwivedi: 21 April 2009 - 10:47 AM

[sl4ck3r]

no, it wouldn't

This post has been edited by sl4ck3r: 21 April 2009 - 11:32 AM

[NeoTifa]

If they just blocked networking sites a thousand more students would get A's

[no2pencil]

Between Torants & myspace, the tubes would get all cloggy like.

[NeoTifa]

Which tubes

Meh, DIC is where my F's come from

[BlakeJustBlake]

I don't know what Universities are providing Internet that's only up on some days of the week or only at certain times (and not because of downtime,) but that's gotta be messed up.

We've got full flowing access here, the University also has a company handle being an ISP.

[markhazlett9]

My University is the ISP... we have full access but some ports are blocked so you can't torrent

[Ostralis]

There's got to be some way to bypass those blocked ports.

Anyhow, I would expect most campuses to have 24/7 internet access, I don't see a reason not to.

What happens when you are up at 1 AM, finishing a project, program, whatever, and there's no internet?

[markhazlett9]

Ostralis, on 21 Apr, 2009 - 04:46 PM, said:

There's got to be some way to bypass those blocked ports.

Anyhow, I would expect most campuses to have 24/7 internet access, I don't see a reason not to.

What happens when you are up at 1 AM, finishing a project, program, whatever, and there's no internet?

Ya that would suck...lol

[BlakeJustBlake]

Go into your BT client's networking options and tell it to connect to a random port on start up.

[KYA]

BlakeJustBlake, on 21 Apr, 2009 - 06:06 PM, said:

Go into your BT client's networking options and tell it to connect to a random port on start up.

Most of them would block 80. The other random port would be meaningless.

[BlakeJustBlake]

Always seemed to work for me. Though, after my university made the conversion from being their own ISP to paying someone else to do it, all ports are free game. I've currently got apache serving out web pages from my dorm room.

[NeoTifa]

Our internet pretty much gives students carte blanche. I mean, I don't think they allow you to look up porn, but you can get on pretty much every web site. (But then again I never tried to look up porn at school) Also, I think they monitor what you download, and the size and how often you download to prevent piracy and such.

[PsychoCoder]

aashu.dwivedi, on 21 Apr, 2009 - 08:47 AM, said:

i was wondering college adminstration wastes so much resources and time in blocking and censoring internet usage for students ..and students waste an equally respectable amount of time in get around it .wouldn't the whole system will become more productive if 24X7 full internet access is provided to the students .

Actually they do this because people, you're probably one of them, would be going to sites that you really shouldnt be going to on the schools network, such as P2P, torrent, Warez and other not so safe sites. Imagine the havoc one could wreak is there were no security measures at all in place. Image what could be exploited on the schools network, all your personal and financial aide information open to the world, would you like that?

In my experience the only ones who complain about this are the exact reason said security is in place to begin with