There was one at Cambridge as well. Never bothering using it, but I could see the appeal:
* My college limited external traffic to 8GB per 10 day period (this was after we negotiated an increase in 2011). After that, it was a £0.25/GB charge plus throttling (<128Kbps after 15GB usage)
* Having an IP address with the reverse DNS entry of <studentID>.<college>.cam.ac.uk made P2P for TV/movies etc. a poor idea (services like MegaUpload were popular though, as was the ad-hoc sharing of files locally)
* My college limited external traffic to 8GB per 10 day period (this was after we negotiated an increase in 2011). After that, it was a £0.25/GB charge plus throttling (<128Kbps after 15GB usage)
* Having an IP address with the reverse DNS entry of <studentID>.<college>.cam.ac.uk made P2P for TV/movies etc. a poor idea (services like MegaUpload were popular though, as was the ad-hoc sharing of files locally)