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Academic Network Censorship?
Mark asks: "I'm the President of the Brock University Students' Union, and recently our IT geeks completely cut off access to the Kazaa network for the entire school. It concerns me, while I understand the need to save bandwidth.. what's next? File sharing bandwidth has been throttled for quite some time here, this is the first all out "restriction" we have seen. As a Students' Union we advocate on behalf of the 13,000+ students here, and we need to develop policy around network 'censorship.' I'd love to hear your experiences and suggestions. Our website is here"
So limit residential usage to maybe 50% of campus bandwidth. And limit p2p ports to maybe 50% of residential bandwidth. This is basically what my school does, for some percentages. Also I find it somewhat odd that "Academic usage would grind to a halt when some new CD came out". If you run this close to capacity that a few 5MB transfers per person per day can clog the system, you desperately need an upgrade. I wouldn't be surprised if CS majors submitting their homework all on the same day clogged the system similarly.