Re: Gaming and dorm students

["Bradley, Stephen" <bradlesw () MIAMIOH EDU>]

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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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> Note that I am using a Palo Alto so can handle filtering by user and app
> level.
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> Bob Williamson
> Network Administrator
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>
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