$100/month)? Maybe your should look into packet shaping tools.
Brian Lee
Manlius Pebble Hill School
> From: Renee Ramig <rramig@sevenhillsschool.org>
> Reply-To: A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:05:41 -0700
> To: <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Subject: Personal Use
>
> Our school has been pretty loose about letting teachers, administrators
> and staff use the computers for personal use on their own time (prep,
> recess, lunch, after school, etc.). However, with applications and web
> 2.0 sites taking more and more bandwidth, I have a need for teachers to
> stop streaming their radio station, stop watching the news videos, stop
> checking their Facebook, stop shopping for a new pair of shoes, etc.
> especially during school hours. I doubled the bandwidth this year from
> one T1 to two T1s for about 300 computers, and there are times when max
> bandwidth is being used for hours at a time, even though I know very few
> if any students are using it at that time.
>
> How anyone else had this problem? How have you dealt with it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Renee Ramig
> Seven Hills School
>
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