Usenet at college

[Sai077]

Interesting. So based on the the fact that I have haven't registered my computer, but my room mate has registered his to our router (Which is plugged into the college network), I should be okay?

[zot]

Interesting. So based on the the fact that I have haven't registered my computer, but my room mate has registered his to our router (Which is plugged into the college network), I should be okay?

By sharing his router, your bandwidth allocation (whether the college IT measures this weekly, monthly, or whatever) will be (potentially) only half the amount you would be allocated if you registered your own MAC address on the network and both of you connected separately.

But maybe you prefer to stay connected to the router for file-sharing or whatever. Since it seems you might be planning a downloading orgy, I strongly suggest getting your own MAC registered -- at least as a backup - even if you plan to remain using the router. Most routers allow user-set mac addresses, as well as the default hard-coded one, so if you prefer to stay connected with the router, you could also switch the router's mac to your own PC's (registered) mac address in case the router's MAC ever gets banned or throttled as punishment.

Personally, I would never register a hardware-coded MAC address if I could help it; I'd give a software-spoofed one.