Can any network administrators clue me in on how noticeable a

>>55898772
stop using your school network for porn pajeet.

>>55898772

You'll stick out. They probably have something to limit torrenting. They may have netflows to make tracking you down really easy.

Hard to say, depends on who's supporting the network.

I work for a business-only ISP, every day we get calls from super certified highly paid network admins who cry to us when 'everyone is complaining the Internet is slow!'. It's often a mission to get them to actually check their internal network's bandwidth because 'Nothing has changed', to the point where directors and account managers get involved and fighting starts because the techies on site are too stupid to read their cacti graphs but insist that their gigabit dedicated leased line is faulty based on not even a speedtest into the NTE.

So, it depends.

>>55900421
This.

Ideally if they're not morons, they should have some kind of monitoring in place that lets them know if a specific building's switch is pulling a large amount of bandwidth, at which point they can login to that switch and determine exactly which IP needs to be throttled and who needs to be reprimanded for excessive use.

>>55900511

Monitoring like Cacti or Netflows. Users should have to agree to a network use policy. If that's in place, nail them on that. If you can't get them reprimanded, just shut the port off for the rest of the day. If they call for help, tell them that it looks like they have a virus that is causing major problems on the network. You'll be by in the morning to reboot the computer and then turn the port back on.

>>55900421
>>55898772

Also OP, if it's torrents you're worried about - I'm also the person that manages all copyright infringement notices we get and this is how it often ends up:

-Paramount/Starz Media/Warner/Universal etc. send in notification with infringed work, port number, time of infringement and source IP address
-I track down the customer via the IP and pass it to their account manager
-Account manager sends them stock email with some spiel about making sure the network is secure etc.
-Customer's technical director/IT specialist/'senior engineer' sends a sniffy email about how it must be wrong because the firewall blocks /everything/ and is never wrong.
-I give them my spiel about checking the firewall, looking for <port number> in the logs, check user's PCs to make sure they haven't 'accidentally' left a torrent client running on a device.
-They say "Hurr durr firewall is the best" and then admit they've never actually looked at the logs, have no idea how to filter the log search and insist we should somehow be able to see which MAC address is responsible from outside of the network.
-More sniffy "It's your job!" "No, it's YOUR job!" emails are fired back and forth until they give me access to their firewall and then I track it down to some laptop or phone somewhere, give them all the details they need to find the user.
-They say they'll investigate, sometimes they'll come back to me and insist they found nothing and I should do their job more because 'We need to get to the bottom of this', other times they just say they couldn't find it but will 'keep monitoring the situation', which never seems to stop the infringement notifications from their range so I can only assume they're too incompetent to do the last bits and just turn a blind eye.

But then we have a lot of customers and never hear back from most infringement notices - maybe they go straight in the shredder, maybe they kick down the door and report the user to the internet police.

depends on the competence of the IT and how long they've been there

if they've been there awhile it means they are very familiar with the infrastructure and have probably implemented network monitoring tools that they check frequently because they're bored

if it's some outside entity or incompetent IT no one will care, they just want to make it through the day without their hardware dying or their servers to shit themselves because they probably don't fully understand how it all works

>>55901068
>>55900421

Apologies for my blogshit, I never really post on /g/. Just don't be fooled by how competent your IT support team might seem, you might be surprised how often supposedly capable sysadmins and highly-rated support companies just ask us, the ISP, to fix things they don't understand about their network and then take the credit when they email the company director to brag about how impressive their turnaround time to resolve the fault was. Yes, we see all that. It's quite funny especially when they just copy and paste our emails to them explaining the solution and prefix it with "We resolved this by..."