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Written by Wahoo Prime
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
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When connecting to a Ethernet network provided by us, please make sure you follow these simple steps:
1. Make sure your wireless card is OFF before plugging in your Ethernet cable.
2. Please make sure your browser is not set to use a "proxy server". Surfing the Internet with a proxy server turned on, cab have a very negative effect on performance. ONLY use a proxy server when you are accessing materials that are provided only through the proxy server. It sometimes helps to have on browser setup to use a proxy server and use an alternative browser to access the Internet,
3. If you are using a personal wireless router, please follow the steps listed here to make sure it is properly setup and secured.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 22 August 2009 )
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Written by Wahoo Prime
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Monday, 05 February 2007 |
If you live in an off grounds apartment building, you should expect the following:
- Any peer-to-peer (Bit Torrent connections) are limited by us to no more than 128k upload/download (maximum) to each subscriber. You should also set your number of connections to no more than 100.
- Your individual speeds may vary according to the time of day and day of week. It also depends on the site you are visiting.
- You should expect to have uninterrupted service so long as you follow our setup guidelines properly.
As your building is using a shared connection, we "tier" your service according to the type of traffic.
1Regular web surfing and email traffic takes highest priority. This includes:
RTMP, SipRTP, SSLv2 &v3, HTTP and HTTP Media Stream (including Flash Audo and/or Video or HTTP) and others.
2All other traffic (IM, streaming audio/video, voice over IP) takes a medium priority.
3Peer-to-peer and torrent traffic take the lowest priority at all times, this includes Skype and any protocol classified as "unknown'".
- Historically, we find these apartment building sites to have the highest Internet usage between 10pm-2am (weekdays), so you may find your connection to be slower than normal during this time-frame.
- We've also found that online speed tests are grossly inaccurate due to the amount of "free software" installed on PC's these days. To better help you, we suggest you visit the "My Usage " link at left to view your current activity.
- We strongly suggest you consider removing any peer-to-peer applications (BitTorrent and Skype) if you do not rely on them for anything important. These applications have a way of taking over your PC and opening it as a network host. If we see excessive connections to your system from the Internet acting as a server, our system will automatically ban you from the network. When you are banned, you will get this page:
For those of you interested in more technical details, we've provided some advanced information (click next).
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Last Updated ( Monday, 01 September 2008 )
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Written by Wahoo Prime
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
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As reported by the Daily Progress (full article here ), seven users on the UVa network have been targeted by the RIAA for illegal music download files.
The University of Virginia tracks which user uses each IP address at any given time (just like we do). As a result, they are able to forward these warnings on to the actual user(s) that downloaded the files. If the users do not "settle", they may find themselves the targetof a lawsuit.
We ask that if you have not actually "bought" a song or movie, that you not download it so we don't have to forward these same letters on to you.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 August 2007 )
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