Dunno if anyone will be able to help but I'm living in halls and my uni internet is restricting really stupid and harmless things. My main gripe is that I can't connect to bbc radio stations but I can't connect to anything that streams either. I can understand why they wouldn't want me using bit torrent etc. but radio stations? Any advice is appreciated.
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Buy a radio?
What bandwidth are the streams? About 64 kbps? How many people have a connection in halls? Do the math. It wouldn't take long to eat up the bandwidth if everyone was streaming radio. -
Heh yeah you're right, I'm just so used to not having a radio. Sorry I'm pretty dense about bandwidth gubbins but pretty much everyone here has a connection so I guess it makes sense.Comment
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geta nice fancy digital one and run it through the line in on your soundcard?
Costs money but then..youll have a fancy dab radio. so when you have one night stands and everythings a bit awkward just say "hey, isnt this radio great" and then while shes admiring it, you can leave!Comment
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If your uni is any like mine then they've probably filtered things based on ports and *expected* traffic rather than the actual content. I know that here anything not going through port 80 (http) gets restricted to high heaven, meaning you can download with the janet connex going at quite frankly absurd speeds from webpages and such (speeds around 800k/s+ being no stranger), but FTP / Bit-Torrent / whatever else gets next to no bandwidth, if not blocked entirely. There's probably not a lot you can do about it, other than attempt pleading with a network support chap to see what they can do about the restriction, or find some way of routing what traffic you want through a port you know isn't restricted.Comment
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what uni you at? have you got the proxy settings in place?Comment
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