U.S. Universities Ranked by BitTorrent Usage

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Which schools in the U.S. have the most pirat...BitTorrent users? Before anyone starts with the "Linux distros" defense, you should see the crap college students are downloading these days, it's sad. :(
 
buddy of mine got caught while downloading autocad, they made him go to IT office to clear things out. and i lean you can get one pass every six month or they'll ban you from using internet on site for six month (if you caught twice).
 
#40!

And sadly it definitely isn't linux distros (unless people on campus are stupid). University of Illinois has "cosmos" which a repository for most major distros of linux. And by being on the university network you would be able to download at insane speeds (I would always get 30-40mbps downloads back in like 2004 when such speeds were unheard of.). Also, back then you were limited to 250mb per 24 hour (a rolling window) of off network usage (you could always access in network stuff so you could do your homework)... so if you were going to download a huge linux distro, getting it on network would save your bandwidth.

Granted I have no idea if any of these things(speed/caps) still exist in any form. Maybe it is linux distros lol.
 
bisby said:
#40!

And sadly it definitely isn't linux distros (unless people on campus are stupid). University of Illinois has "cosmos" which a repository for most major distros of linux. And by being on the university network you would be able to download at insane speeds (I would always get 30-40mbps downloads back in like 2004 when such speeds were unheard of.). Also, back then you were limited to 250mb per 24 hour (a rolling window) of off network usage (you could always access in network stuff so you could do your homework)... so if you were going to download a huge linux distro, getting it on network would save your bandwidth.

Granted I have no idea if any of these things(speed/caps) still exist in any form. Maybe it is linux distros lol.
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Those limits were changed to 2gb/24hrs or maybe 5, can't remember. Just that I got pinged one time for having 32 mac address changes in 24hrs lol.
 
Which Rutgers (both are in my state- NJ)? Rutgers Camden or Rutgers New Brunswick or Both?
 
I went to the University of Houston. It's a commuter school with something like 2,000 dorm rooms for the 50,000+ people that attend. Must be a bunch of students going ape shit in the library or over WiFi.
 
My son was probably responsible singlehandedly or nearly so for #19.

In his defense, it's mostly Manga and Anime.

Mostly.
 
Metrocall said:
Nice, no VT on that list, or bad, I'm not sure. :cool:
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I'm kinda surprised that the big tech schools like VT, MIT, CalTech, Georgia Tech(who has the fastest college network speed I've ever seen) aren't listed, or they're really good at hiding their BT usage.
 
Cbshahji said:
buddy of mine got caught while downloading autocad, they made him go to IT office to clear things out. and i lean you can get one pass every six month or they'll ban you from using internet on site for six month (if you caught twice).
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Pretty sure Autodesk has a program that lets any college students use any of their products for free too. Buddy isn't too smart.

http://students.autodesk.com/
 
If your uni's not on there does that mean they're honest, have a policy in place to prevent torrenting or just plain ignorant about it?
 
Nicterys said:
I'm kinda surprised that the big tech schools like VT, MIT, CalTech, Georgia Tech(who has the fastest college network speed I've ever seen) aren't listed, or they're really good at hiding their BT usage.
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I'd be suprised if a big tech school WAS on the list. I'd expect thier tech departments are going to be better are monitoring or blocking BitTorrent traffic, AND that thier students would be alot better at hidding the traffic.

The schools at the top of this list just shows they have alot of clueless students (at least when it comes to BitTorrent).
 
Emission said:
#8, now that's impressive.
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Come on Terps [#9], you can catch them!

Of course, what exactly are the schools with the fat pipes doing with all that bandwidth? Going under the radar by getting usenet over the lans? Coughing up for proxies in Hungary or Lithuania (expensive compared to what they hand out to undergraduates, but nothing compared to tuition)? Some fancy "piratebook" that those from schools on this list aren't hip enough for?
 
Considering Rutgers and NYU have a disproportionate number of foreign students cloistered in student housing downloading movies, muse and pron, not surprising they take first.

The two largest schools in the US, Ohio State and Texas A&M are on the list, they're farther down the list than numbers of students would suggest.
 
When I was living on campus barely anyone torrented anything online, there was the in house University network and everyone just used DC++, it was insanely fast and didn't count toward your download limit.
 
When I was living in the dorms, you couldn't access the internet if you had a torrenting program installed. We had to have a Cisco program installed that checked our programs and if we had their version of Norton AV installed. It was really annoying.
 
Tudz said:
When I was living on campus barely anyone torrented anything online, there was the in house University network and everyone just used DC++, it was insanely fast and didn't count toward your download limit.
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+1

downloading 20gb HD movies in a min or so was insane..
 
ShotFromBehind said:
Those limits were changed to 2gb/24hrs or maybe 5, can't remember. Just that I got pinged one time for having 32 mac address changes in 24hrs lol.
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I went to UIUC as well (06-10) and it brings back fun memories of getting around the bandwidth cap. Everyone did the MAC spoofing until they cracked down on it (made everyone register their MAC, at least for my hall).

You could get around the limit totally (my crowning achievement in college LOL) by VPNing into the school library. Traffic is routed internally to the library's vpn server and then outside so it doesn't count towards your cap as it is seen as internal traffic.
 
Can we get a breakdown by media category, like games, theatrical movies, Linux isos, porn, etc?

Just kidding, pretty much all of it is porn.
 
Cbshahji said:
buddy of mine got caught while downloading autocad, they made him go to IT office to clear things out. and i lean you can get one pass every six month or they'll ban you from using internet on site for six month (if you caught twice).
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That is why your buddy shouldn't put his real name on his computer. Maybe he should name his computer "You Can't Find Me" :p
 
This is silly, the hits are no where near large enough to get a good sample of the population. I can tell you U of Washington is probably much higher than 38...
 
My school's file sharing group was called fight club :D. Although it is hard to file share fast when everything is wired with CAT3. Of course the year after I left they upgraded everything on the network :mad:. I actually got a denial of service attack form another student on campus once. I was able to figure out what router he was connected to but not the exact room, otherwise someone would have had a pennied door. Oh you know you have a fun campus when there is easy access to explosives and beer (det cord is fun) :cool:.
 
pxc said:
Can we get a breakdown by media category, like games, theatrical movies, Linux isos, porn, etc?

Just kidding, pretty much all of it is porn.
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those 1080p 3d pornos aint small!

tazeat said:
This is silly, the hits are no where near large enough to get a good sample of the population. I can tell you U of Washington is probably much higher than 38...
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i went to UW too. also surprised to see us so low.
 
tazeat said:
This is silly, the hits are no where near large enough to get a good sample of the population. I can tell you U of Washington is probably much higher than 38...
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ekuest said:
i went to UW too. also surprised to see us so low.
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When I went there, the UW had a pretty significant DirectConnect network (I actually hosted it one year)...so I could see how torrenting would be lower when one person downloads and then just shares it over DC.

Ironically, I had my 'net connection shut down once for "downloading a movie" that I never actually downloaded. :p Had to contact campus IT to get it restored, just a phone call though, no issues.
 
bisby said:
#40!

And sadly it definitely isn't linux distros (unless people on campus are stupid). University of Illinois has "cosmos" which a repository for most major distros of linux. And by being on the university network you would be able to download at insane speeds (I would always get 30-40mbps downloads back in like 2004 when such speeds were unheard of.). Also, back then you were limited to 250mb per 24 hour (a rolling window) of off network usage (you could always access in network stuff so you could do your homework)... so if you were going to download a huge linux distro, getting it on network would save your bandwidth.

Granted I have no idea if any of these things(speed/caps) still exist in any form. Maybe it is linux distros lol.
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I have been a UIUC student for four years, and I had no idea about COSMOS. I am not a UIUCnet user these days but my apartment's wired internet has some pretty insane speed itself (70 Mbps Download). Not that I would need this service though as the distro I use on my laptop (Mint) isn't there.
 
Dammit, didn't make top 50. I knew my school was technologically behind. Or our students are just really good at masking their data usage?
 
Cbshahji said:
buddy of mine got caught while downloading autocad, they made him go to IT office to clear things out. and i lean you can get one pass every six month or they'll ban you from using internet on site for six month (if you caught twice).
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As a student in most universitises you can get 3 year usage of all of autodesks software (3dsmax, Maya, Autocad etc. etc.) for free...:D
 
Surprised to see A&M at No. 5 on the list.

Sure, there's a ton of students but we also had a pretty beastly DC++ group a few years ago when I was there. :D
 
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