I can tell you, Comcast's meters are certainly not accurate. I was suspicious when Comcast records had me coming dangerously close to the 300GB cap for all of the last 4 months, where my usage is basically one netflix stream for 2 hours/day (average) plus casual browsing. I turned on my router's traffic logging at the end of last month, and lo-and-behold, Comcast shows my usage for April being 200GB whereas my router shows it at around 130GB.
My wife is currently a student at Florida State Law, and has to deal with this on an increasing basis. It is my belief that since we're paying good money for tuition, she should be able to do whatever she wants in class as long as it isn't disruptive.
Aside, this kind of thing can lead to some very serious problems: in one case, 90+ students' internet connections were erroneously blocked for multiple days; in another case, my wife could not access the internet on her WORK computer because she was working during the original scheduled class period (which was rescheduled) and the block is tied to your school login ID, NOT just wireless access.
If a school is going to implement this kind of blocking, they better hire some competent techs to manage it.
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Glad you have "parody" in your name because otherwise this is a totally believable, yet inane, rant.
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I can tell you, Comcast's meters are certainly not accurate. I was suspicious when Comcast records had me coming dangerously close to the 300GB cap for all of the last 4 months, where my usage is basically one netflix stream for 2 hours/day (average) plus casual browsing. I turned on my router's traffic logging at the end of last month, and lo-and-behold, Comcast shows my usage for April being 200GB whereas my router shows it at around 130GB.
...happens in law school as well
My wife is currently a student at Florida State Law, and has to deal with this on an increasing basis. It is my belief that since we're paying good money for tuition, she should be able to do whatever she wants in class as long as it isn't disruptive.
Aside, this kind of thing can lead to some very serious problems: in one case, 90+ students' internet connections were erroneously blocked for multiple days; in another case, my wife could not access the internet on her WORK computer because she was working during the original scheduled class period (which was rescheduled) and the block is tied to your school login ID, NOT just wireless access.
If a school is going to implement this kind of blocking, they better hire some competent techs to manage it.