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Re: Residence Questions
From: "Wood, Anne M (wood)" <wood () JUNIATA EDU>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 08:22:31 -0400
With the new school year in gear ..... and double our res connections, there are a few questions we have around Residence Halls and what other institutions are doing to provide reliable, secure conectivity to the same. 1. What type of connection supplies res halls (bandwidth etc.)? 10/100 Mbps shared port per pillow w/ Gigabit Ethernet backbone in large residence halls. We house students in campus-owned houses as well and these buildings have a 100 Mbps uplink. 2. Is the residence connected in any way to the institute network, or is it on a separate feed? Do you outsource your residence connection? Connected directly to the campus network. 3. What technology is is place to stop (if any) peer-to-peer sharing etc? Packetshaper is in place to limit peer-to-peer, although we do not completely stop it. 4. Do you get complaints from RIAA, MPAA, etc? We have in the past, but not recently. 5. How many users are connected in res halls? Approximately 800. 6. Are users authenticated? By what means? No port authentication. Must use AD username and password to access network resources. All wireless connection require a VPN connection to get access to network resources including the Internet. 7. Are user machines inspected before connection is allowed? There were not this year and we had tons of problems. There will be something in place next fall. 8. Are res halls bound by Service Level Agreements / Policies? Bound by policies. 9. What is the guaranteed uptime of res halls (if a guarantee is made at all)? No guarantee is made, but as stated in one of the other emails, we treat these buildings with the same priority as our academic and administrative buildings. 10. Are res halls supported by the institue helpdesk, or does the res hall have its own helpdesk?. Institute helpdesk. 11. What is the demarcation point for responsibility to the institute (switch port, wall jack)? In theory it is the wall jack, but due to all of the virus and spyware related problems this year, we found ourselves going beyond the wall jack. 12. What are the policy (if policy exists) actions for gross network abuse? Refer to the Dean of Students Office. If network degradation occurs due to abuse, the port is immediately disabled. Hope this helps, Anne Wood Network Manager Juniata College Any information you could provide would be GREATLY appreciated.... Chris Fontaine ======================================================================== === "How is "education" supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Like when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive...." - Homer Simpson ======================================================================== === Chris Fontaine Digital Information Protection & Security, Humber College Information & Technology Services 205 Humber College Blvd Toronto, Ontario, Canada M9W 5L7 chris.fontaine () humber ca (416) 675-6622 ext 4461 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
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- Residence Questions Chris Fontaine (Oct 04)
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- Re: Residence Questions Michael Cole (Oct 04)
- Re: Residence Questions Michael Boschet (Oct 04)
- Re: Residence Questions Willis Marti (Oct 04)
- Re: Residence Questions Wood, Anne M (wood) (Oct 05)
- Re: Residence Questions Caruso, Holly (Oct 05)
- Re: Residence Questions Jenny Gluck (Oct 06)
- Re: Residence Questions Jeff Kell (Oct 06)
- Re: Residence Questions Kieper, David (Oct 06)