Don't pay! If you disagree with the decision and fine being made against you, it is commonsense not to pay. In real life situations, e.g. with parking fines, you can appeal without having to pay. Even if you admitted that you broke the AUP, it doesn't mean that the AUP is fair. By paying, you're pre...

I'm sorry, but the f has moved to greater places. I'm sure it will be reincarnated at some point.

Cocodude

OH and as a side note I'd like to Restate the point I've made so many times "BT is a whore.. its destroys networks worldwide.. n tho I do occassionally use it I'm not a supporter." - I think ITS should should allow DC++ on-campus hub and keep strict ban on BT I think they had it right two...

If I were one of you, I just wouldn't pay. There are so many arguments that can be used against ITS, mainly that they don't provide the service they quoted they would, and you've been paying a fiver a week for that.

Cocodude

You could argue, on the lowest level, that technically everything on the internet is not peer to peer, since every connection(TCP or UDP) works between one machine acting as a server(listening) and another client machine connecting to it. Don't forget that these two protocols work on top of IP, whi...

If someone has a bit of spare time, could they create a spreadsheet with this data (ping times, location, date, time of day) and perhaps could everybody do their ping over a series of days? This could be some interesting evidence to bring to the ITS meeting next week.

Any volunteers?

Cocodude

Shall we all post the dates of weekends next term that we cannot attend a social? I can't make the weekends of 4th February and probably 21st January.

Cocodude

MSN on the other hand has nothing to do with P2P and uses a slightly different protocol. It also can make several connections, but often its bandwidth usage is far smaller.. When you chat to someone on MSN, don't the chat messages (and file transfers) go directly to the person you are chatting to? ...

For your information, as provided by astropoint, something interesting happened this morning. just before 9am. Almost all people from campus were disconnected for a few minutes, and then they started to reappear. Chat log follows: [2005-11-15 08:53] <Morphelia> 53 users [2005-11-15 08:53] <Morphelia...

'tis a very sad day. At the very least, you should be getting back £5/week for your connection being terminated. Hopefully this incident will encourage people to actively get together and complain, preferably through the union. ITS have a monopoly and are abusing their status by providing a ...

Please mention the worst lag time you've had over the last couple of days and the hall that you live in. This only applies to on-campus users. Some people have reported times of up to five minutes during the evenings, while others, on the hub at the same time, report lags of less than a second. I am...

I think anyone that uses P2P over the internet should be fined; I wouldn't want Quake 4 to lag on me so someone can get the latest Lost episode or some similar rubbish. You *are* joking, surely? I'm sure many people consider your Quake 4 game to be rubbish. All they need to do is implement a decent...

That is mostly likely the case - I've had a few comments using the contact form where people think they've done something wrong or are not sharing enough, when it's been due to the subnet ban. I think we should post on the main page when a subnet ban occurs, or even have a real-time, updating thingi...

BigG's point is very important. Lots of people seem to think that the minimum share has simply increased to 20GB :-/ I'll emphasise on the main page that you can connect during off peak times and you will remain connected even if the share limit increases. Yesterday, after the min share increases, w...

It does ban the user for 5 minutes when kicked off, so I presume that opendchub will not let the user try to log in again while this ban is in action. This might save some bandwidth on retries.

Cocodude