dband service like cable or FiOS. We have dual T-1s and a Comcast Business=
Cable account. The two T-1s carry critical traffic (mostly email) and voi=
ce, while the Comcast carries everything else. They fail-over to each othe=
r for outbound traffic. At 20Mb down for $170, it's a pretty economical so=
lution. We found that as web-based multimedia usage around campus increase=
d, all our efforts to control bandwidth failed miserably because the usage =
was legitimate. While I'm not typically one to endorse the "throw money at=
it" solution, in this case it's pretty much a no brainer if you can do it.
S
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Steven Dickenson <sdickenson@keyschool.org>
Computer Network Manager
The Key School, Annapolis Maryland
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> From: A forum for independent school educators [mailto:ISED-
> L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Renee Ramig
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 6:06 PM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Personal Use
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> 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.
>=20
> How anyone else had this problem? How have you dealt with it?
>=20
> Thanks,
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> Renee Ramig
> Seven Hills School
>=20
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