Janet upgrade... nice excuse lol.

[ECA]

El Reg quote

Built by Verizon Business, which also provided most of SuperJANET4 via its purchase of MCI, the network is based on 10Gbit/s equipment with an upgrade path to 40Gbit/s. JANET's governing body UKERNA said that with traffic doubling year on year, only 40Gig channels could meet future needs without having to aggregate silly numbers of 10Gig lines.

"JANET can be found at the heart of a diverse array of activities, from delivering e-learning and videoconferencing facilities to school children, hosting pioneering remote surgery techniques, to supporting research into global warming and the very beginning of life itself," extolled Tim Marshall, UKERNA's CEO.

What they really mean:

Due to more students downloading porn and music, we're running out of bandwidth.

 

[Clown]

rofl lol ftw

 

[yaruar]

You aren't far wrong. We aren't legally allowed to restrict students in any way shape or form apparantly due to the contrct with JANET.

Although that said, the bandwith is rather spiffy.

 

[Scouse]

You aren't far wrong. We aren't legally allowed to restrict students in any way shape or form apparantly due to the contrct with JANET.

Quite rightly so m8

 

[Overdriven]

Imagine how much bandwidth people would save if they realised porn contained music =<

 

[Chilly]

Lol yeah, think of all the unheard sound tracks on pornos cos people listen to them mute If you stripped the sound out of all the pornos ever youd reduce the internet in size by 10%!

 

[tris-]

You aren't far wrong. We aren't legally allowed to restrict students in any way shape or form apparantly due to the contrct with JANET.

Although that said, the bandwith is rather spiffy.

our uni restricts us on msn messenger unless you go into the LRC

 

[Louster]

Living in uni accommodation last year, they restricted virtually everything other than basic web browsing, and the connection did, eventually, go via JANET. So, uh.

 

[TdC]

*oppress Louster*