Just a quick response from somebody who IS working at a university: we
ARE looking at longterm solutions... but we don't have either the
solution or the funding for the solution in place yet. Meantime, our
students came back from Christmas vacation and dang near maxed out our
connection to the Internet. After I got vicious hunting down servers --
mostly of the napster/gnutella/bearshare variety -- usage was cut back
by about a third.
The students' desire to use P2P should not -- NOT -- overwhelm the
other legitimate uses of the Internet by other students, by faculty,
and by staff.
So if you can tell me how we could have known ahead of time that usage
would double -- DOUBLE -- when the kids came back from Christmas
vacation, and where we can come up with the money for those gigE
connections for each pillow, please don't lecture us about carrying
torches for intellectual freedom.
Shelley
USC ISD
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