We ran out of Internet.
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Topic: We ran out of Internet.
Posted By: agentwhale007
Subject: We ran out of Internet.
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 1:43pm
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Bravecoward probably got this e-mail this morning too: "OHIO Students,
Due to extremely high demand, the university's Internet connection currently does not have enough capacity to meet service expectations and results in noticeably slow connections at times. Traffic analyses have shown streaming media usage accounts for nearly two-thirds of our current demand, with Netflix being the largest single consumer of our Internet capacity. In an effort to free up the bandwidth faculty and students need to complete academic online tasks during finals week, the university will be instituting a temporary limit on the total bandwidth available for Netflix traffic. The restriction will go into effect this evening, Monday, March 14 at 6:00 pm. OIT appreciates your patience as this temporary corrective action is taken. We welcome and encourage your thoughts on a more permanent solution as we engage the university in planning on this critical issue." |
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 2:01pm
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I hear there's some internets out in Californi... -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 2:10pm
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For years I couldn't get high speed internet at my house in the country. Which is one of the downfalls of living in the sticks. Only thing was... The fiber optic lines that my tax dollars were used to install high speed for the schools in our area, went RIGHT BEHIND MY HOUSE, on the way to Oxford university, where the students get free high speed internet.
Oh well, the republican politicians who were involved in that scam are now in http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/crime/timeline-of-the-dynus-case--1074084.html - court and facing jail time . But, the public still can't access those fiber lines... yet. ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 2:28pm
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I was going to post this. But seriously I was half way through scrubs, the good seasons too, what am i suppose to do now ------------- 
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Posted By: kickinwing2010
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 2:33pm
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I am surprised they haven't had something like this happen at my school, I mean I can't even play minecraft it's so bad. ------------- 
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Posted By: GroupB
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 2:35pm
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Benjichang wrote:Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 3:52pm
Hey, at least they built SOMETHING. Verizon and other ISPs got billions in subsidies to install end-user fiber a decade or so ago and didn't do crap. ------------- 
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 4:26pm
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Oh the best is that we got this email today but its dated monday -------------
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 4:43pm
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Makes sense. The primary function of the school's network and their internet connection is for educational resources.
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Posted By: DaveEllis
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 5:49pm
Facebook and porn you mean.
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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 8:00pm
| Download moar interwebs, n00b. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 8:07pm
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Dont you ph00ls have DC++? ------------- 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 8:45pm
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Haha that reminds me of highschool. I was creating a video project, and had the entire thing saved, including all of its footage, on the schools network under my account. One day I walked into the admin lab, where the schools admin quickly pointed at me and said "I've been looking for you!"
Turns out I had clogged the tubes badly enough that even automatic backups weren't being saved to the network anymore. To remedy it they set me up with my own computer/ account so I could just save to the HD and not take up network space. |
Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 10:07pm
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Haha, so many people were complaining about this on facebook today. I didnt know the whole story about it though. OU needs to step up its game, students will go into withdrawal. ------------- 
hybrid-sniper~"To be honest, if I see a player still using an Impulse I'm going to question their motives." |
Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 2:52am
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That sucks. My schools hilarious solution was to cap every dorm connection at 100 kb/s. Then they stopped sucking at life and managed their network properly. On a more hilarious note; My school Internet > Your school Internet;  ------------- [IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/1538fbc.jpg"> Squeeze Box ☣ |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 9:28am
I work on campus, so I noticed it bad Monday. Like, stuff getting super bogged down, and I was working on a brand new machine.
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Posted By: Dazed
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 11:16am
| This is going to be more and more of a problem as internet apps get bigger and bigger and streaming finishes solidifying iits hold as this generation's entertainment media of choice. I think the school is going about the the right way, throttling extracurricular bandwidth hogs without blocking them is fair. Basically saying "you're welcome to use this on your own time, but we're making sure you don't degrade our connection to do so." |
Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 3:17pm
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Our ISPs are doing us a huge disservice by not even bothering with implementing fiber for the public. Instead we get alright speeds; speeds that are considered the lowest end in other countries. It is kind of sad to see the level of control that ISPs are allowed to get away with. ------------- [IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/1538fbc.jpg"> Squeeze Box ☣ |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 3:57pm
There are no good seasons of that show.
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 6:20pm
That is correct. Every season is amazing ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 6:45pm
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Fun note, seeing a speedtest test posted, the company I work for hosts the Memphis speedtest server out at our data center. -------------
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