Damn,
I mean my heart is breakin' here because you guys are set for 2 Gb a month. I'm at an Australian University with over 60,000 students and we have been on a user pays system for almost 2 years. 65c per 10Mb for international stuff, 25c per 10Mb for local and all of it coming down a lousy T3 (which is about as fast as you'll get out here). We get $15 a semester worth of redit which can last anything from a week to a fortnight. I'm sorry to hear other Uni's are following suit. On the upside redirection and tunnelling will become very familar to your students in the near future!
Damn, I mean my heart is breakin' here because you guys are set for 2 Gb a month. I'm at an Australian University with over 60,000 students and we have been on a user pays system for almost 2 years. 65c per 10Mb for international stuff, 25c per 10Mb for local and all of it coming down a lousy T3 (which is about as fast as you'll get out here). We get $15 a semester worth of redit which can last anything from a week to a fortnight. I'm sorry to hear other Uni's are following suit. On the upside redirection and tunnelling will become very familar to your students in the near future!