August 13, 2004
Some Colleges Set Bandwidth Caps to Take Back Their Networks
When online music and movie trading began to cripple Kent State University's campus computer network, officials took note of a startling statistic: Just 10 file-swapping students were responsible for over half of the network traffic.
In response, the university adopted a policy that a growing number of colleges are considering -- setting a cap on the amount of data that students can download or send out to others in a given day.
"We don't want to be a software, video, and
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