I just downloaded a nearly 700MB file in about 15 seconds here at my college:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/waterdrop006/11MBpersec...ernet2.jpg

i envy you

Holy moly. I wish I had that kind of speed.

What does the .1 patch fix, do you know? My install got hosed after I tried to install the closed source nv driver. And by hosed I mean the GUI won't load (black screen) and I lost interest.

I have no idea what the .1 part of 8.04.1 is, I just downloaded it to see how fast my internet connection was.

It sucks how most schools don't allow any form of port forwarding/virtual server so it can't be used to host games.

Welcome to college/university lol. When I was in undergrad I can get about several MBs per second, but not 11 lol.

Well since everyone in the University streams pirated movies from those damn sites, it makes it lag a lot. I think I can download at 50kb/s

Well, I dont think we have Internet that surpasses 5mb dl here anyway.

Hey Adam can you go wild with it? Maybe download some torrents or find some direct downloads of videos, music, etc.? I think this might be the best time to get a Premium Account on Rapid Share lol.

If I had that kind of connection my hard-drive would be full with tons of....

Music!

It's really nice to have a blazing fast connection, but you really do gotta be careful especially where I go. The school I go to is a large target for the MPAA, RIAA, and other organizations of those types.

if I had that fast of internet at home, I would be running servers like mad to bring in money...

or just have a bunch of hdd's dl'ing stuff all the time...

Is that downloading from a University server?

Adam Kolak said:

That is a good idea. I recommend you don't go crazy on bit torrent.

If you do, definitely use PeerGuardian2. It blocks out MPAA, RIAA and your school from monitoring what you download on bit torrent.

EDIT: Could you post the link you used to download? I would like to see what kind of speeds I get.

You can try it for yourself here, and yes it's from an MIT server. I am at RIT which has an Internet2 connection, but even when downloading from non-Internet2 sources I can still get a solid 3 MB/s to 8 MB/s download speeds.
http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu-releases/hardy/ubuntu-8.04....p-i386.iso

Brendan Gonsalves said:
No, it doesnt.

Whats the upload like?

Sneakydave said:

"PeerGuardian is capable of blocking incoming and outgoing connections based on IP blocklists. The system is also capable of blocking advertising, spyware, government and educational ranges, depending upon user preferences."

-Wiki

PeerGuardian is a firewall--no more, no less. Any device can analyze packets that pass from you to what you are trying to view. That does not exclude the school or the school's ISP. All PeerGuardian does is prevent people working on the behalf of MPAA/RIAA/etc. from establishing a connection to you to see what you are sharing.


Not to mention that if you are using any kind of P2P technology behind a NAT device, you will have a low ID and/or unconnectable status. This essentially means your client has to make a tunnel through the NAT to someone that is connectable/high ID before any transfers can take place. If your client can't find someone that is connectable/high ID, the service is effectively disabled.


Your school can still monitor every single thing you do on their network.