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Oh c'mon, National Express. Surely you've learnt by now that outright blocking stuff isn't the answer. It doesn't really prevent it, and actually just pisses people off. Really, your Wi-Fi can't deal with a minute long YouTube video? A DNS lookup later, and…

Blocking by domain name. Clever.

So, so frustrating that they block this 4MB YouTube download, but won't try to stop me updating my browser (30MB) or downloading some video podcasts (~100MB).

I was talking to Michael yesterday, and we decided (I think I got this right) that university was really pretty cool because at times we actually get a say in the way things work. Today, that was verified as I got this reply back from the college administrator:

I was all ready to write this post dripping with praise for the college, and the university and whatever, except I just got another reply explaining that we don’t have Wi-Fi because of the prohibitive cost. Really, "prohibitive cost"?

The pink is where there’s currently Wi-Fi available on campus. The blue is where I asked for it. How is that more expensive to the point where it’s not possible?

Part of me is tempted to try and do something with this (meetings, petitions, voting?) but another part of me thinks it isn’t important enough to waste time on.