Are torrents blocked in UEA?
I'm coming to UEA this year and I was wondering whether the university blocks p2p downloading, whether in rooms or on the wireless network.
Posted Aug 25, 2013, 6:24 PM UTC
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I work at the university and went there myself up until 3 months ago, they will issue a warning if you're caught and then will take it further if you carry on. As long as you don't do anything stupid like try to buy an essay online or download 300gb in one go you should be fine.
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On the terrible 2Mb download they give, it would take just under 14 days to download 300GB.
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Of course, though I did manage to torrent Sufjan Stevens back catalogue and all three monkey islands in a day once.
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Impressive.
I downloaded a film in the computer labs once, which have a ridiculous download. It took about 2 minutes :P
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Well done. I take my non-existent hat off to you. What was the film though? That's when the real judgment comes.
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It may have changed, but UEA has a no torrenting policy. However I don't know of an occasion where it has been inforced.
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When I was on campus around 2004 they had blocked it but it caused a fair few problems with legitimate uses, I think WoW patches are done by bittorrent for example.
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Yeah I heard the rumor that they unblocked it for WoW patches.
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Never known anyone to get in any trouble for torrenting, only for trying to install wireless boxes. They can and will turn off the internet in your room if you try to go wireless. Although it may take some time, they will do it eventually.
But bare in mind it is a 2mb/s connection.
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This.
I had a Netgear wireless access point in my room for a couple weeks (because there's no wireless in Nelson and beyond, or at the time there wasn't, which is ridiculous). I actually had it running for quite a while before they turned off the internet in my room and sent me an email saying "you had a netgear wireless access point with mac address blah blah". I just went into the Library and said I didn't know we weren't supposed to have them and it got turned back on.
Technically, I don't think you're even supposed to look at porn.
But I say torrent and wank away!
Also, sup dude. Using me as an example ;)
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When I was there they weren't. The last time I torrented was April 2012 and the speed was consistant 1m/s on well seeded torrents.
My resident tutor (or whatever they call them now) said that you'd get caught as it's against the t&cs but I downloaded at least 50gb over 3 years and nothing happened.
1m/s?! That's insane, I'm used to 50-100kbps download speeds with well seeded torrents on a good day. I'm looking forward to uni even more now ahaha
I can remember downloading an EZTV torrent that got 1m/s and and MJ album. I'm not saying that's the average speed but it is the fastest I got.