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My university did ban p2p, no matter the content. Officially for upload bandwidth savings.

• Scoundreller 6y ago
  Mine did too. Though oddly the wifi in the classrooms was fair-game, but this was before most people had laptops, and even fewer ones that could last more than 2 hours without charging. I remember downloading some content over IRC to share on the campus network because I knew how to use it and it was slow, but not blocked.
  • josefx 6y ago
    My university had bad wifi and I think 50mb drive space per student. I ended up plugging in my laptop directly and spoofing a whitelisted IP/MAC combination (the PCi just plugged out) for several assignments.
    • Symbiote 6y ago
      Those fees they charge the international students did go somewhere, then :-D I had as much backed-up space as I could justify (some gigabytes by default), plenty of space for laptops where there were power sockets as well as 1Gb/s wired and fast wifi connections, personal webspace/server, a PostgreSQL database, a Tomcat server, remote SSH access to all computers and a distributed computing system (Condor). Looking at the current guide for students[1], they also get access to a local Gitlab instance, a private IaaS cloud and a GPU cluster. [1] http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/csg/services/ http://www.imperial.ac.uk/computing/csg/services/
• Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  I don't blame them, it can end up costing a lot of the available bandwidth, and it's a finite resource.