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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by kalleboo on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:00PM (#14638878)
I moved to student housing in Sweden in 2004 when they had aging network infrastructure (all 100 MBit but that also applied to the shared links to the housing areas[0]), and by the next year they just ditched the school-sponsored network and moved to making students pay for third party internet (distribution to rooms was still Ethernet-based but now with a citywide fiber backhaul run by the municipal power company shared by regular apartment buildings).

We got faster service with fewer restrictions (no P2P service filters) for like $10/mo with student pricing, and still with fixed IPs.

I'm not sure why what innovative service a university can provide in this space in 2017?

[0]which meant about 1000 rooms sharing 100MBit internet access. This was somewhat mitigated by local DC++ networks in each housing area to keep piracy downloads off the shared link.

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by acrefoot on Monday June 26, 2017 @05:40PM (#14640613)
Do you have to pay $10 per server you set up?

Also, by acting as the ISP, it also gets to be more protective of its log data than an outside provider might be.

It's not that an outside ISP couldn't provide the same level of service and speed at the same or less cost, while protecting the interests of the MIT community, it's just that I don't expect it's as likely.

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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by kalleboo on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @12:04AM (#14642497)
I don't recall the pricing for extra IPs but it was probably something like that. I just had a stack of servers built out of donated parts in my dorm room hosting different services on VHosts. At one point I was pushing 3 TB/mo in outgoing bandwidth on that $10/mo plan.
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Re:By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation by juniorpatcher on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:17PM (#14639009)
It's not about what innovate service a university can provide: it is about what kind of innovation the university can help empower its students to make.
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