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Re: Gaming and dorm students
From: "Bradley, Stephen" <bradlesw () MIAMIOH EDU>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:56:14 -0500
We limit all the P2P traffic to about 1Kbps and that allows the gamers to login and then they switch to whatever works. For some reason they need P2P to login but not to run. steve On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Bob Williamson <bob_williamson () aw org> wrote:
I am the network admin at a small K-12 private school. We have about 90 dorm students. A problem I am running into is enabling the dorm students to be able to use normal games like “World of Wrcraft”, “League of Legends”, etc. It seems a lot of these games are using bittorrent on the backend. Without digging into the specifics, how are others handling the dormers requests? Telling them no does not seem appropriate, but not letting them play seems bogus. I was toying with the idea of having the individuals sign a sheet saying they will not use bittorent for illegal purposes. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Note that I am using a Palo Alto so can handle filtering by user and app level. Bob Williamson Network Administrator Annie Wright Schools | 827 N Tacoma Ave, Tacoma, WA 98403 | www.aw.org D: 253.272.2216 | F: 253.572.3616 | Bob_Williamson () aw org Mission: Annie Wright's strong community cultivates individual learners to become well-educated, creative, and responsible citizens for a global society. Find Annie Wright Schools on Facebook Follow our Head of Schools on Twitter @AWShead
-- Stephen W. Bradley CISSP GCIH GWAPT SSCP Senior Security Engineer Miami University IT Services bradlesw () miamioh edu 513-529-1809
Current thread:
- Gaming and dorm students Bob Williamson (Jan 14)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Jeff Kell (Jan 14)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Tim Doty (Jan 15)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Chris Golden (Feb 01)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Bradley, Stephen (Jan 15)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Bob Williamson (Jan 15)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Behun, Michael (Jan 15)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Bob Williamson (Jan 15)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students King, Ronald A. (Jan 15)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Hahues, Sven (Jan 17)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Loftus, Steven E (Jan 17)
- Re: Gaming and dorm students Jeff Kell (Jan 14)