Fool the quota management

M1k3H

M1k3H

M1k3H

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Hello. Basically, this year my wonderful university introduced a new rule.
A 30gb quota for p2p applications per month! Yes, that includes torrents, wow downloads, steam downloads, skype and whatever you can think. It does NOT include HTTP downloadable content.

So, do you know of any ways to fool the quota management? I mean the uni has large enough bandwidth for every1 to download immense amounts of data, it's just that they've recieved compaints for torrent downloads so they introduced this kind of defense against illegal downloads, which in the end takes with it all the useful apps you'd want to use. My previous months quota is around 1 tera per month, now i'm limited to 30gb. Any ideas?
 
M1k3H said:
well, then what? I've gotta find a site which has great content to download
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Lots and lots of forums all around the web that list the content. Very easy to find simply using Google.

*reflux does not endorse or support the downloading of copyrighted material
 
reflux said:
Lots and lots of forums all around the web that list the content. Very easy to find simply using Google.

*reflux does not endorse or support the downloading of copyrighted material
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well, i guess I will be forced to go down that route, unless any1 comes up with any idea..
 
If your terabyte of downloaded content was all legal content, I think that you may have a case to argue. Justify it to the University.
If not, you will need to find Http and Ftp server download sites above your 30Gb limit.
 
M1k3H said:
I mean the uni has large enough bandwidth for every1 to download immense amounts of data
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This is the fundamental flaw in your argument. The university does not have a bottomless pit of bandwidth for you to rape. If you're downloading a terabyte a month then I can guarantee that any charge you're paying is a tiny proportion of what it costs the university to provide that bandwidth.
 
rpstewart said:
This is the fundamental flaw in your argument. The university does not have a bottomless pit of bandwidth for you to rape. If you're downloading a terabyte a month then I can guarantee that any charge you're paying is a tiny proportion of what it costs the university to provide that bandwidth.
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common sense +1
 
Vpn. Port 80/443. Profit?

Edit: Just for torrents, don't go sending you steam password (or any) over a vpn you don't personally own/control.
 
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Believe me the university CAN handle that kind of bandwidth. Before it was limited to 10MB/s downloads you could download up to 30MB/s. Now, i know lots of people (and I mean above 1000) that were downloading those amounts of data.
And on a large connection like the one the university has there are no limits in data traffic, just limits on bandwidth, which if it cannot handle it then some people would have lower speed than others, it wouldnt account as money for the university to pay.
And we aren't paying any charges, just 30GB then STOP.
I just came back to the university. I downloaded the new MOH 7gb. Skype? 1gb/day. WoW patch? 5gb. And the list goes on. I am paying an accommodation with all included, its not like I'm downloading stuff for fun just to stress the servers. I need more bandwidth.
 
M1k3H said:
And on a large connection like the one the university has there are no limits in data traffic, just limits on bandwidth, which if it cannot handle it then some people would have lower speed than others, it wouldnt account as money for the university to pay.
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As I said before bandwidth isn't free. The university will be paying at least a five, possibly six, figure sum for it's connection and as you've just found out they're fed up funding your (and others) downloading habits.
 
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