With the kind of technology policy my university has.. am I screwed?

Question

I've got a limit of 5GB incoming traffic and 2GB outgoing traffic per week. I'm also worried about downloads, but I'm not talking about P2P, I torrent. They do say, however, that they don't monitor the CONTENT of the traffic, just the amount. So I'm wondering - am I screwed if I spend 2-3+ hours a day browsing the internet and most importantly.. gaming? Are they telling me I can't play WoW because the amount of data coming in and out mirrors that of a student downloading album after album from Limewire? Could anyone clear this up? Am I just intrepreting this the wrong way? I also don't want to call the desk because the last thing I want to do is raise a red flag and have the tech deparment red-flag me.

Your thoughts? Am I just being paranoid or is this something to worry about?

Answer 1

A gigabyte is a lot of data, you aren't going to use a gigabyte per day playing WoW and browsing the net endlessly. To do that you'd have to be downloading movies or high resolution images.