December 3, 2004
Outsourcing the Dorm Network
Hammered by file sharers and other bandwidth hogs, some colleges hire companies to handle Internet service for studentsA year ago two tin cans and a string might have worked better than the Internet connection in Laura DeNitto's dormitory room.
A handful of students at the State University of New York College at Potsdam, where Ms. DeNitto is a sophomore, were hogging the bandwidth in the dormitories as they swapped large numbers of huge music files.
"There would be days
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