Being less conspicuous at a university

[AC7]

I'm going to start with a short story of what happened and then get to my question, so read from wherever you feel comfortable.

Being at a university, they only tend to look into a person's behavior if they are: 1) contacted by an outside agency, or 2) with anomolous upload rates. As such, I usually have to keep my torrent upload rates on the lower end of the spectrum. However, I decided to fool with things a little and raised the speed by 5KB/s and saw a relatively decent dl speed increase. However, upon raising it 10 KB/s more, it actually went down a bit (but this raise of 15 total was not high by any means, so it wasn't that I raised my UL too much). Hence, the speeds were simply fluctuating and my little test was not of any real value. This did, however, bring up the following question.

What speed do you think would be most appropriate for my upload limit? Of course, I am aiming for a decent upload speed that will help my dl speed, but still small enough that my university won't get suspicious of heavy uploading. I'm not sure that there is any definitive answer to this, but I'm curious as to what everyone thinks.

[Borgs8472]

If I were you I'd share as much as I wanted UNTIL there's some sort of complaint or other. Limit your upload speed to you download and you shouldn't suddenly become a super-awesome seed pirating half of the internet.

[pimpinaman]

remember network admins can see what you are doing whenever they want to.....maybe better to pal around with some of the admin types...

[Borgs8472]

or make a friend, borrow their password, lose contact with them and use their account whenever you go filesharing :)

[CrashPeer44]

If I were you I'd share as much as I wanted UNTIL there's some sort of complaint or other. Limit your upload speed to you download and you shouldn't suddenly become a super-awesome seed pirating half of the internet.

what are nyou talking about pirating half the internet,
Were only just backing it up for the goverment ;)

[fleecy]

..... yeah, that's the ticket... >:)

[Sephiroth]

I'm going to start with a short story of what happened and then get to my question, so read from wherever you feel comfortable.

Being at a university, they only tend to look into a person's behavior if they are: 1) contacted by an outside agency, or 2) with anomolous upload rates. As such, I usually have to keep my torrent upload rates on the lower end of the spectrum. However, I decided to fool with things a little and raised the speed by 5KB/s and saw a relatively decent dl speed increase. However, upon raising it 10 KB/s more, it actually went down a bit (but this raise of 15 total was not high by any means, so it wasn't that I raised my UL too much). Hence, the speeds were simply fluctuating and my little test was not of any real value. This did, however, bring up the following question.

What speed do you think would be most appropriate for my upload limit? Of course, I am aiming for a decent upload speed that will help my dl speed, but still small enough that my university won't get suspicious of heavy uploading. I'm not sure that there is any definitive answer to this, but I'm curious as to what everyone thinks.

My advice, both as someone getting a Computer Science Degree in about a month and someone who has worked in IT is the following.

If you must then you should not share anything thats copyrighted and limit yourself like you have been doing.

If you feel its too risky then you should stop because its not worth the conquences.

It would be very unwise to just wait until they displine you with some action like cutting off your access. Doing things like trying to suck up the admins with the hopes of bypassing security or hijack someone else's account would only get you in far more trouble.

[cheapprick]

getting a Computer Science Degree in about a month

Good stuff.

[AC7]

oh I'm aware of all of this. I was just curious if anyone had an idea of a safe speed of some sort that probably wouldn't throw up too many red flags. my best bet would be to ask an IT person at my school, but when i did that, he didn't know even a rough figure, let alone an exact one.

[cpugeniusmv]

1 or 2 MB/sec should be slow enough.

I'm kidding. A friend of mine in central IT showed me the graphs for my port one day...quite outstanding.

[shawners]

wear a hood and trenchcoat with dark shades. Your stupid if you think your gonna go unotice.. Your gonna take a risk that you be throwing away everything you work hard for. Your in college, you could be doing alot better things and getting a education. DONT RISK IT BY SOME stupid movie or music file. Live off campus if you want to fileshare. They have zero tolerance at things like this and they will find you.

[CrashPeer44]

wear a hood and trenchcoat with dark shades. Your stupid if you think your gonna go unotice.. Your gonna take a risk that you be throwing away everything you work hard for. Your in college, you could be doing alot better things and getting a education. DONT RISK IT BY SOME stupid movie or music file. Live off campus if you want to fileshare. They have zero tolerance at things like this and they will find you.

One day us filesharers with grow up and rule the world and stop copyrights:icon_quee

[shawners]

The day filesharers grow up, is the day you get married, have kids, have responsibilities off the net. =) like me.

[Borgs8472]

wear a hood and trenchcoat with dark shades. Your stupid if you think your gonna go unotice.. Your gonna take a risk that you be throwing away everything you work hard for. Your in college, you could be doing alot better things and getting a education. DONT RISK IT BY SOME stupid movie or music file. Live off campus if you want to fileshare. They have zero tolerance at things like this and they will find you.
Well I got away with pirating half the internet once I got my USB hard drive ^_^

[cpugeniusmv]

Well I got away with pirating half the internet once I got my USB hard drive ^_^
Hard drive?

At work we have the internet on three floppy disks in case it goes down.

[pimpinaman]

Hard drive?

At work we have the internet on three floppy disks in case it goes down.


:icon_thum HAhahahaha!

D00d can you hook me up with some "back-ups" of those :icon_joke

[Lehk]

rather than using the schools expensive upstream BW look for a filesharing hub on campus, a lot of campuses have DC++ hubs which are IP filtered to prevent those off campus from seeing what you are doing.

the IT department can see you but the RIAA can't