About the Student Download Quota
When you enrol at UQ you receive a student account for on-campus use with free dial up access for off-campus use. Your student account includes 400 MB of download quota per month. (ICTE students 150MB.) The download quota on-campus is used in the Library, most Faculty computer labs and the Wireless network when using a laptop or mobile device.

Purchasing more Download Quota
If you use all of your free allowance, you can purchase additional download, or visit your nearest ITS Service Centre or Student Centre. N.B. If you are a postgraduate research student, please refer to your School administrator to access additional download.

• UQ hosted sites (These can usually be recognised as they contain "library.uq.edu.au", "askit.uq.edu.au", uq.edu.au" or "uqconnect.net" in the URL).
• Traffic between Australian universities - Excluding: Bond, Notre Dame and Southern Cross.
• Traffic between research institutions - Including: CSIRO, AIMS and DSTO in Australia.
• AARNet Mirror (as long as they have aarnet in the address)
• UQconnect Help Desk downloads page

Download Quota in the UQ Library

On UQ Library workstations, internet access to UQ “Local (free)” websites  will not count towards your student download quota (currently 400 MB per month or 150MB for ICTE students).  These sites currently include UQ hosted sites, most Australian Universities, many leading research institutions, AARnet mirror sites, and the UQconnect Help Desk downloads page.

General internet access to external websites, known as “Charged ” sites, will be via “Quotient” (the University’s traffic management system) and will count against your student download quota.  

When you access an external  “Charged” web page (for example  www.google.com), you will be directed first to a UQ Login web page to authenticate against your Quota Pool,as shown below:

On the UQ Login page, there is also an “Unmetered Site Lookup” link to check whether a particular web page is likely to count against your student download quota.

After entering your username and password, you have two options:

1. Press your keyboard ‘Enter’ key or click the “Quick Sign In” 
   
   button to take you directly to the website that you wish to access,

OR


2. Click the “Sign In”
   button to direct you to the UQ Login Pool Selection webpage that allows you choose the internet pool that you want to use.

After selecting the internet pool that you want to use, you will be forwarded to the external website that you have entered previously.  This authentication is only required once per session, and all “Charged” websites that you access during your session will be charged against the Quota Pool that you selected at the beginning of your session.

A pop-up window will also appear, displaying your connection details, such as your Download quota and your connection status. There is also a logout link in this window, which can can be minimised to allow you to logout later. You will be automatically signed off when you log off from a Library workstation.

Further information