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Thread ID: 119900 2011-08-16 00:05:00 Can anyone else see an issue with this? nedkelly (9059) PC World Chat
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1223548 2011-08-16 01:51:00 Biggest school in the country. At least they aren't dictating what device has to be used by the student, unlike a school not too far north of them...

Ummm no, they recommend the iPad they don't force you to buy it last I saw.


If everyone is on at once could it block the undesirable sites and p2p traffic?

Yes....firewall/proxy don't just stop working once you get to a certain number of users.
Alex B (15479)
1223549 2011-08-16 02:32:00 Yeah, the system gets shut down after 3 months due to copyright violations.

$1.5 million for 3 months of use and abuse. Great taxpayer value.

How would the US law firms chasing copyright violations find out? Wouldn't all the file transfers be within the school? One or other of the students must have the internet backed up by now.
PaulD (232)
1223550 2011-08-16 02:58:00 My mate stuck a massive hdd in his laptop and set it up so anyone could access it and get any files, this is what I see happening. nedkelly (9059)
1223551 2011-08-16 03:21:00 Yes....firewall/proxy don't just stop working once you get to a certain number of users.

No but they can grind to a halt when you're managing large numbers of users and doing a large amount of filtering.

Large enterprise firewalls differ greatly from the end-user / consumer / soho-grade stuff.


My mate stuck a massive hdd in his laptop and set it up so anyone could access it and get any files, this is what I see happening.
Potentially, yes, though they'd be best to enable wireless device isolation. If they were smart.


How would the US law firms chasing copyright violations find out? Wouldn't all the file transfers be within the school? One or other of the students must have the internet backed up by now.

It's the schools responsibility to track the IP internally of every user. So, they've gotta have a captive portal that logs the username / password of each user on each device at the time it gives the IP Address out. It's not difficult.
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