understanding is the only way to deal with this is to manage the
bandwidth. I have seen and tested Packeteer just no budget to spend on
it. It was awesome what it could do. I dropped roughly 10 MB in a week
just because of new P2P that my firewall was letting through. There is
also a cheaper version of packeteer out there called net enforcer. I
have not seen it but it is 1/3 less than the packeteer.
Brian Manns
Network Admin
Culver Academies=20
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Dayton, Jeff
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 4:11 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Bandwidth
Hi,
I am curious as to how boarding schools are dealing with the ever
increasing appetite that students seem to have for bandwidth. We have
160 boarders (95% have computers) and a T-1 that has served us well.
During non-school hours students completely clog T-1 and I would love to
say that it is educational use, however it is all I-Tunes, online TV
viewing, and other bandwidth intensive recreational activities. =20
The question that we struggle with is do we spend more money on
bandwidth that would basically serve recreational purposes, or do we
restrict usage on a generation that lives and breathes technology?
We are currently in discussion as to how to deal with the issue and of
course one of the first questions that is asked is, "What are other
schools doing?"
Thanks,
Jeff Dayton
Director of Technology
The Madeira School
jdayton@madeira.org
703-556-8342
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