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Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise (www.wikimediastatus.net)
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[–] 23 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Download a little offline Wiki for rainy days folks!

I take connectivity for granted but shouldn’t. Batteries charged, books on the shelf, offline games and media stored locally…

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    > Live on a dorm
    > There's lots of people
    > Cell towers are motherfuckingly overloaded during the day
    > 0.09Mbps down, 4.5Mbps up and > 300ms on 4G

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    What kind of shitty-ass dorm relies on cellular connections? When I was in college, we had wired ethernet in the dorms and then wifi on top of that. Piracy was huge, in part because it was a lot of folks' first opportunity to have a fast connection, LOL.

    (Admittedly, that was at a research university that had been sitting directly on internet backbone since the NSFNET days, but still...!)

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    We have that available, I just use mobile data because I disagree with their ToS.
    The ToS is so restrictive that you basically immediately break it after connecting a device. I was told that, of course, they don't really care.
    Except - there is a point stating the provider has the right to access your computer if there is a suspicion of ToS violation. Considering the network here is a student-run organization, that could easily be exploited if you piss off someone.
    Maybe I am just paranoid, but no thanks.

    Otherwise, from talking with them, most dorms have 1Gbit, some have 2.5Gbit, and all share a 40Gbit link which could apparently do 100Gbit (I think), but it's capped due to licensing.
    They leverage national academic network.
    Oh, and they also got a class B subnet back when everyone was sure there's just way too many IPv4s, so NAT isn't being used here.

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