Is bebo being throttled in NUIM?

Gone West

at the moment:
Any/every website is fast to use, as fast as normal.
except bebo.com
But when I use a web proxy/friends computer off campus to access the site, its back to being nice and fast again.

So as far as I can see, either Bebo.com is throttling the NUIM ip(s) or the computer centre is throttling bebo.com
There are a few other techie reasons why this could happen, but they all seem unlikely.

*Roisin*

Exact same here. My bebo's ridiculously slow at the mo..

Frickin annoying..

Pherekydes

It's often the same for me and I'm at home with a broadband connection.

It's Bebo's database.

Gone West

Slow coach wrote:

It's often the same for me and I'm at home with a broadband connection.

It's Bebo's database.

the fact that bebo seems to be lightning fast through VNC'ing to a remote server of mine and through www proxys leads me to think otherwise.

Anybody know the story?

Nietzschean

i would imagine bebo are throttling the number of connections from any one ip/ip block, all the college are getting it because of the mass number of connections through proxies or just from the same ip block. Its pretty bad in TCD also, 5mins for a page to load during the day.

Though it can just be bebo's site too as going through sixxs's ipv6 to ipv4 gateway earlier didn't speed things up....

Deadlocked

What proxy are you using fuzzy

Fridge

I heard they're banning it in UCC.

fletch

It's slow in college for me and at home.....takes ages to load during the day....it's a bit quicker durin the day.....me thinks bebos servers aint able to cope with the amount of traffic

trekkypj

Fridge wrote:

I heard they're banning it in UCC.

Good for them. They don't need it anyway, they have their own forums already!

El_mariachi

bebo gonna get banned, its banned in most colleges nui galway most recent, you guys are next, ban ban ban ban ban lol

Smurfpiss

i remember back in the days when hotmail and yahoo were banned. I **** you not...the old connection wasn't as fast back then.

ClareBear

Fridge wrote:

I heard they're banning it in UCC.

They ban everything in UCC :rolleyes:

dory

Do the on campus apts have the same internet thingy as the college?

So like, if it's banned in college would it also be banned in the apartments?

ArcadeFred

Aw imagine! No bebo! No mikado! What would we do!?

dory

Well at least you'd still have Bebo at home Freddie. I'd be royallly screwed. It's like some sad ass attempt to make us have nothing to do cept study.

ArcadeFred

You can come home to mine 2 nights a week to go on bebo k Bring your own dinner.

dory

Only 2 nights?? I'd die if that's all I was on Bebo! Suppose I could just fly down the town to the net cafe by the cop shop. Such hassle!

Gone West

ArcadeFred wrote:

Aw imagine! No bebo! No mikado! What would we do!?

get lives, or something else equally ridiculous.

ArcadeFred

Oh I was waitin for someone to say that Fuzzy! Feck off! You weren't on mikado as long as us, don't realise its deep significance in our lives (etc.)!

El_mariachi

that was funny when mikado was shut down i enjoyed that,

Death to bebo!!!

Carlow I.T - bebo free
NUI galway - bebo free
Waterford I.T - bebo free
UL - bebo free
UCD - bebo free
NUI Maynooth - milkado free and soon to be bebo free
UCC - Bebo free
Trinty College - Bebo Free
Athlone I.T - Bebo free

We soon will all live in a Bebo free world

bebo was stupidly slow for me at home as well. I havent tried it on campus.

Gone West

ArcadeFred wrote:

Oh I was waitin for someone to say that Fuzzy! Feck off! You weren't on mikado as long as us, don't realise its deep significance in our lives (etc.)!

Ahh yeah, but I've been on other boards/etc almost nonstop since the late 90s and I know how addictive they get. Its kerazy

Mabye we will start seeing "internet users anonymous" support groups?
Or are they here allready?

oldnamebanned

Is there talk about NUIM banning bebo?

Deadlocked

NUIG banned it buts its easy to get around using a proxy. My friend uses one wit no problems

ghostdancer

it's probably because bebo's servers are a pile of crap.

on there at home in the evenings, it's often 1 out of 5 pages won't open, and when you try it again 3 seconds later it's grand. be like that at any random point of the night....

mloc123

I blame it on the oracle database they're using.

ClareBear

They can't ban it, I'm just after getting in to it!

Whiskeyjack

El_mariachi wrote:

bebo gonna get banned, its banned in most colleges nui galway most recent, you guys are next, ban ban ban ban ban lol

Hooray!Nothing but a thinly disguised marketing scheme anyway, much like myspace, but at least myspace isn't so blatant about it.

TouchingVirus

Whiskeyjack wrote:

Hooray!Nothing but a thinly disguised marketing scheme anyway, much like myspace, but at least myspace isn't so blatant about it.

I'd like to hear the reasoning for banning it...

I suppose it'd go something like "non-academic purposes" and "people using bebo take up resources" etc etc..

Sure block access to 3/4 of the interweb (including boards) while we're at it.. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

El_mariachi

Deadlocked wrote:

NUIG banned it buts its easy to get around using a proxy. My friend uses one wit no problems

using a cgi based proxy is a direct contravention of college rules and will lead to a ban on internet use for that person when caught.

Gone West

El_mariachi wrote:

using a cgi based proxy is a direct contravention of college rules and will lead to a ban on internet use for that person when caught.

Would using a non-cgi proxy be any different?