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jackofallgeeksI get the sinking suspicion that this school is trying to play under-handed trick to keep people from file sharing.
Maybe I'm paranoid. Maybe I'm not. What I do know is that ResNet, the network that connects personal computers in the residence halls to the internet, has been majorly screwy lately. For the last month, my internet access has dropped randomly, for no reason, and come back up randomly, too. I haven't timed the intervals between when it drops and when it picks back up. The public school computers in the labs around campus have not had this problem.
It's not a complete drop, either. Outlook can't get to my mail, IE won't open any pages, Semagic can't connect to LJ and my SSH client can't connect to Secho, but if Trillian is connected when I 'lose' my internet, it maintains it's connection. I can't connect to Trillian if it's already died, though.
And I'm not the only one that it does this to, either. All of my roomies have experienced it to some extent or another -- Curtis, Chris, and I (who use our computers the most) have felt it more than Zach or Mike, but even they have lost access. As has my buddy Jim and a few of his friends. And to top it all off, my computer routinely drops off the internet whenever I try to view a webpage that loads a lot of graphics, like www.dilbert.com or www.furcadia.com. Fishy, fishy, fishy.
I IMed another friend of mine, who works at the school paper, to see if they've looked into it at all. They have a way of being a thorn in the Computer Center's side, and especially if the Center IS playing something under the table, and our legitimate services are being interrupted because of it... I have anger.
Update (14:46): Here at work, I just checked all the different pages that kill my internet, and not only do they load, but they load *very* fast. That is all.
Maybe I'm paranoid. Maybe I'm not. What I do know is that ResNet, the network that connects personal computers in the residence halls to the internet, has been majorly screwy lately. For the last month, my internet access has dropped randomly, for no reason, and come back up randomly, too. I haven't timed the intervals between when it drops and when it picks back up. The public school computers in the labs around campus have not had this problem.
It's not a complete drop, either. Outlook can't get to my mail, IE won't open any pages, Semagic can't connect to LJ and my SSH client can't connect to Secho, but if Trillian is connected when I 'lose' my internet, it maintains it's connection. I can't connect to Trillian if it's already died, though.
And I'm not the only one that it does this to, either. All of my roomies have experienced it to some extent or another -- Curtis, Chris, and I (who use our computers the most) have felt it more than Zach or Mike, but even they have lost access. As has my buddy Jim and a few of his friends. And to top it all off, my computer routinely drops off the internet whenever I try to view a webpage that loads a lot of graphics, like www.dilbert.com or www.furcadia.com. Fishy, fishy, fishy.
I IMed another friend of mine, who works at the school paper, to see if they've looked into it at all. They have a way of being a thorn in the Computer Center's side, and especially if the Center IS playing something under the table, and our legitimate services are being interrupted because of it... I have anger.
Update (14:46): Here at work, I just checked all the different pages that kill my internet, and not only do they load, but they load *very* fast. That is all.
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Date: 2004-04-23 10:30 am (UTC)No, see, that's the beauty of what makes this whole theory probable -- if they KNEW what they were doing, then they would have been able to kill file-sharing without anyone knowing. But since they don't, they had the 'unfortunate' side effect of screwing with all of ResNet, and tipping us off to their Dark Deeds. Stupid Admins.