On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
And what is wrong with setting up a hub or something in a dormroom? I find it quite convenient to leave both my PC and a laptop running on my desk, for various reasons (too many open terminals and windows is one of them ...)
Well whats wrong with you setting up a small router and using one IP? The crap I hear most of the time is that they want to only issue one ip per student unless you pay for more. The other thing is that at a very technical university like ours, a lot of engineers will opt for multiple machines thus much more address space required if only using a hub. The other argument is that they want to make sure they have plenty of capacity by knowing how many users they have and hopefully not multiple machines that they don't know about behind a firewall. Again, more BS because geez each wall portal can spit out 10/100 regardless of how many machines are behind it. Lets not even get into what OS's can really use outta those respective pipes, thats another story. :) Look outside of the university to the small college ISPs. They even actively hunt for cable/dsl routers and turn off ports if they think they have found them. Don't want students cheating their service by wiring up the whole apartment to one cable modem. What a ripoff....And why ? Because most college students have no clue and are willing to accept it. Plus some apartment complexes have contracts with specific providers that provides a monopoly situation. I miss the good ol days when I worked for the ISP I had access through....At least then I could remove myself from the restrictions...Guess when I finally move to MD for work I'll have to make friends with someone at Comcast. ;-) Andrew --- <zerocool@netpath.net> http://www.andrewsworld.net/ ICQ: 2895251 Cisco Certified Network Associate "Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself."