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bineal

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Yes, if you want to study and research at uni, guess the fucking what...

you have to pay $20 per GB when you use the internet.

You have to fucking pay to do your research...who the fuck is behind all this?

Fuck usyd, im transferring to uts.
 
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bineal said:
Yes, if you want to study and research at uni, guess the fucking what...

you have to pay $20 per GB when you use the internet.

You have to fucking pay to do your research...who the fuck is behind all this?

Fuck usyd, im transferring to uts.
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Rip off, u know why did that happen, coz USYD now like all other educational instituions are stingey asses.
 
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bineal said:
Yes, if you want to study and research at uni, guess the fucking what...

you have to pay $20 per GB when you use the internet.

You have to fucking pay to do your research...who the fuck is behind all this?

Fuck usyd, im transferring to uts.
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wrong! usyd only charges for access to external sites, i.e. ones outside the university network. however, almost anything that could be classified as 'research' on the internet is done through academic databases of various kinds. these are accessed through an internal proxy which gives them a .usyd.edu.au address, and therefore you get unlimited free access to them on uni computers.

so:
- reading articles on JSTOR, searching Web of Science for citations, etc etc = free
- goofing off on YouTube = not free, after your weekly free download allocation is used up

fair enough tbh.

also, that system only applies to access lab computers, like the ones on level 2 of fisher. computers that are owned by the library, like the ones on level 3 of fisher, have free access to the whole internet.
 
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I think this is pretty poor practice for an educational institution. I pay 50c/GB on my residential connection so I assume they'd get it quite a bit cheaper than that.

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wrong! usyd only charges for access to external sites, i.e. ones outside the university network. however, almost anything that could be classified as 'research' on the internet is done through academic databases of various kinds. these are accessed through an internal proxy which gives them a .usyd.edu.au address, and therefore you get unlimited free access to them on uni computers.
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Really? The majority of research that you perform derives from USYD published material or content that they have gained permission to host on their servers? I would have thought referencing wikipedia, independent sites specialising on the subject and popular/professional releases/breakthroughs on 3rd party sites would prevail or at least provide a significant segment of material that aids such research.
 
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Honestly, $20/GB is way too much especially for those living on-campus. I plan to use my 3 USB wireless internet anyway.
 
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Six megabytes is peanuts

Whats even more funny is that even though they charge 2 cents per megabyte however if you use say 1.5 megabytes, they round it up to 4 cents instead of charging 3.

Sydney Jews.
 
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