willay
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Originally posted by John
It's http traffic, I don't know if it can be blocked at all.
layer 7 inspection, very fancy firewalls can do this. Quite shocking they allow a single workstation to use that much b/w through the network. How sloppy!
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noshua
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Andrew
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It's pretty silly them allowing you to pull down such files on a university network.
As willay has stated, it can be blocked using a fancy firewall. They have obviously got some fancy kit in place to allow you to get those kinds of speeds in the first place.
We used to install some fancy Firewalls at my old place. None of us knew what half the shit did 
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drunkenfool
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Rapidshare is a bit of a different case though cos its harder to track what files are being downloaded. Say one HD rip is split into 20 x 200mb chuncks all on different servers, they would have to find all 20 parts and know the password to extract the file and see whats being downloaded, as far as they know it could just be something uni related. Of course though, I do understand what you are all saying about the uni network being able to be used like this but at the end of the day im a happy end user and not a network admin with sloppy security protocols 
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pow
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
quote:
Originally posted by John
It's http traffic, I don't know if it can be blocked at all.
layer 7 inspection, very fancy firewalls can do this. Quite shocking they allow a single workstation to use that much b/w through the network. How sloppy!
"Who's taking up all the banddwidthhhhh"
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Tommy L
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works doesnt come close 
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
Rapidshare is a bit of a different case though cos its harder to track what files are being downloaded. Say one HD rip is split into 20 x 200mb chuncks all on different servers, they would have to find all 20 parts and know the password to extract the file and see whats being downloaded, as far as they know it could just be something uni related. Of course though, I do understand what you are all saying about the uni network being able to be used like this but at the end of the day im a happy end user and not a network admin with sloppy security protocols
you'd just block access to rapidshare servers  there's no legitimate reason for a uni student to be downloading off there.....
[Edited on 15-04-2009 by Dom]
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dan_m1les
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My work is aweful! 
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