Net Rationing @ BITS Goa

Well..... it seems I'm motivated to write another post, when it gets too irritating to keep something locked up in my head.

Guess this is the place where I can let it all out.....

The third year of my college just started a few days back, and it's been quite a long time since my last post.....

We came to campus to find that there was no internet here for the first three days. Today is the first day of Internet in this semester.

There was a notice put up in our hostels today which stated the following...

In order to provide good internet speed to all students, the net timings would be as follows:

5 pm - 7 pm - C Wing Hostels
7 pm - 9 pm - A Wing Hostels
9 pm - 11pm - C Wing Hostels
11pm - 1 am - A Wing Hostels
1 am - 8 am - All Hostels

Now, the internet problem has been existent in BITS since a long time, but I honestly do not think that rationing out the net like this is the solution. The network admins should instead improve the infrastructure, and probably increase the number and efficiency of the proxy servers. Even now, they fail to configure all four proxies for each wing. Instead they give only two proxies, resulting in the same effect, so there really isn't much difference in the internet speed in the end.

One can probably start by reading thru the man file of squid, I guess that will be quite helpful. Other than that, when it comes to the download size restriction, I think that it should be increased from 5 mb to atleast 50 mb, taking into consideration that most driver download files (for example, the NVIDIA driver for linux) are more than 5 mb in size.

And as far as the timings go, I personally feel that they are very unsuitable for the A Wing side. Dinner usually starts at 8pm, so if we need to access the internet, we either need to skip dinnes, or stay awake late at night after 11 to access the internet, while the C Wing side gets internet after snacks, i.e. at 5 pm and after dinner, i.e. from 9pm to 11 pm.

Kudos to the network administrators.....

Thats it for now,

More later when I get another internet slot......