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Originally Posted by vanblah
We have a 45Mb pipe
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Originally Posted by robbdn
You've got only 25 megabits for 1200 students living on campus? That's insane! If they were all using computers at the same time, that's only 2.5k per student... even at a more realistic only 25% using at the same time that's only 10k. I hope you meant 25MB, that would at least guarantee 80k/sec at 25% usage...
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<b>That should have been "45M<i>B</i> pipe." Thanks for pointing that out.</b>
Regarding the privacy issue. I agree that IT should not be sticking their noses into the private lives of students; and we don't unless we have to. The point is that students should not <i>expect</i> that privacy. Furthermore, we don't have to know what you're doing to see that something is wrong. On our campus there's really not much of a valid academic reason for a student to download 10GB per day. Even including students that do massive file transfers with the university. 10GB is not really a lot, but it does stick out like a sore thumb.
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Originally Posted by robbdn
Interesting... 90,000 really isn't a lot to work with. At my university, all students pay the fee, not just on campus students. That might be something worth looking into doing to get extra funding, I don't think students generally mind paying for the kind of service they want. Ours is $100 per quarter, $400 per year, for each and every student, not just on campus, and while the students always find fees to complain about I can never recall a major complaint being made about the technology fees.
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It wouldn't make much difference since the entire class body is around 1500. Most students live on campus. We've kicked around the idea of charging the network access fee to all students but the amount we'd get would not make up for all of the complaints. We've even tried justifying it because off campus users still use our network every time they access something on campus.