ICS: can someone find out?

I'm at university and they charge £128 anually for broadband (which is extortion let's be honest), but anyway, the have rules like no ICS for obvious reasons (so one person doesn't pay and everyone gets internet). Now they specifically allow 360s, but I'd have to get a TV in my room which i can't afford.

Basically that pre-amble was for the benefit of the moderators: please don't close this thread, as I fully intend to keep my ICS network private; just for MY use.

So to the crux of the issue; if I turn on ICS is it possible for the network admin find out? Thanks all.

 

Extortion? Hardly, not as an annual fee. Get real.

 

to answer your question, yes. A network admin who wanted to could see if you were using ICS or a personal router.

A packet sniffer will reveal, among other things, the mac address of the intended target device so even though all devices would appear to the network admin with a single ip address, a little extra digging would reveal there are multiple machines.

 

Thanks for the heads up.

And Shyster, for students that's pretty much extortion. Sky home broadband with no such restrictions and better bandwidth is cheaper than that. And bear in mind we CAN'T go elsewhere. And we're not even in the rooms for that long: 36 weeks total.

 

It's not extortion just because you cannot afford the price, that seems to be a woefully common misconception, particularly amongst the free-lunch-left (which I'm not accusing you of being a member of, mind you). Perhaps the Wikipedia article on extortion might help clarify the matter.

Perhaps your choice of Unis was just a little less than stellar; a transfer might be just the ticket.

 

No I'm firmly to the right as British politics go, probably sit nicely in the democratic party in the US (go Barak, go!) and no, the uni is one of the top 15 in Europe by most measures (Manchester) so £128 is hardly a deal breaker. Further, maybe it's a European thing, but we exagerate slightly with terms like "extortion" and "day-light robbery"; given the context i think it was clear my reference was more coloquial than an obstinately and objectively accurate account of the situation.

 

depending on the network crew at your college you could get busted with it in a hurry, all it would take is a cam table with all the MACs on a given port, would not take much. however most will not go through the trouble of it.