I agree, the universities do have a right to curb the usage of Napster to allow for the equal usage of their bandwidth. I'm a CS student, and in the computer labs, I think we have a T3 connection, I'm not certain, but I know its a hell of a lot faster than a T1 connection.
But anyhow, sometimes during the day, when I sometimes need to log on the net to do research on one thing or another, or to even check my mail, it feels as if I come across a bottleneck. I'm pretty certain that students aren't checking their emails every microsecond, so it lead me to wonder if one or several of the computers are running a Napster server. Either downloading music to the computer or uploading it to another.
I don't think that the right thing for the universities to do is to completely block these Napster servers, since that would be the same thing as censoring it. But I do agree that they should curb its usage to a certain percentage of their bandwidth so that everyone can have equal access to it, in order for them to get their work done.
My opinion might be redundant on this message board, but when you're on a high speed ethernet connection, and it sometimes feel that you can connect faster on your 33.6 modem at home, you do get a little annoyed. _________________________
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I agree, the universities do have a right to curb the usage of Napster to allow for the equal usage of their bandwidth. I'm a CS student, and in the computer labs, I think we have a T3 connection, I'm not certain, but I know its a hell of a lot faster than a T1 connection.
But anyhow, sometimes during the day, when I sometimes need to log on the net to do research on one thing or another, or to even check my mail, it feels as if I come across a bottleneck. I'm pretty certain that students aren't checking their emails every microsecond, so it lead me to wonder if one or several of the computers are running a Napster server. Either downloading music to the computer or uploading it to another.
I don't think that the right thing for the universities to do is to completely block these Napster servers, since that would be the same thing as censoring it. But I do agree that they should curb its usage to a certain percentage of their bandwidth so that everyone can have equal access to it, in order for them to get their work done.
My opinion might be redundant on this message board, but when you're on a high speed ethernet connection, and it sometimes feel that you can connect faster on your 33.6 modem at home, you do get a little annoyed.
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