[PLUG] ResNET

[Benjamin C. McKeown]

There is something going on campus wide right now.  I'm sitting in a PUCC lab, and my connection is all hosed up.  And of course I'm sitting on a Windows box, 
without access to any of my nice network analysis tools.  So I really don't know what is going on. But this isn't just a resnet/"bandwidth cap" thing.  Right now I'm not 
able to access a lot of sites, /. in particular, but AIM also won't connect.  If anyone knows what's up I'd love to hear it.  

-Ben

  
9/9/01 3:21:13 PM, Seth Heckard <sdh@purdue.edu> wrote:

>Scott Minster wrote:
>> Right now I don't have any problems, but I've seen that massive ping loss
>> before as well.  Fortunately, it went away, since it made resnet slower than
>> ever (and probably wasted a lot of bandwidth from resent packets).
>
>Sometimes that "massive ping loss" is intentional.  PUCC has
>implemented an adaptive rate limiting system that categorizes
>people based on how much they download.  The first category
>starts at 200MB over a 24-hr. period, and goes up from there.  If
>you are in one of the rate-limited groups, the next day is your
>"punishment" period where you can't do any more abusing.  If you
>are in the highest group you will have a better connection on
>dialup.  The day after the punishment period everything goes back
>to normal.
>
>Seth Heckard / sdh@purdue.edu
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