Cornell Implementing Bandwidth Charges

Sabalon writes "Cornell University is planning on implementing a plan where if faculty, staff or students use more than 2GB of bandwidth a month, they will be charged for the additional bandwidth usage. The article mentions that last year over 100,000GB worth of files were sent from Cornell's network. I'm sure this is not the only school doing this or moving to this. I'm sure the conspiracy theory people will see this as a suggestion by Microsoft to stop students from getting those pesky Linux iso images. At least, according to the RIAA, CD sales around Cornell should now skyrocket :)" It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Since students often have accounts on several different university machines, I suspect the more rebellious ones will be running an assortment of proxies and redirections to get around the restrictions.

Comments

Re:Ugh.

[EvilTwinSkippy]

we never used anywhere near the amount of available bandwidth.

No, but bandwidth is like sewer pipes: you NEVER try to fill it up. At 10% you start dropping packets. You go much above 25% full and service is degraded. At 50% the network is pretty much useless. I DO work in a NOC. I DO know.