Re: gamer clubs

[Doug Brooks <dbrooks () PARKLAND EDU>]

We do not offer anything special for gamers.  We also are a community college and have no dorms.

It has been discussed but there wasn't much interest on behalf of the college to provide this, especially since the 
bandwidth would compete with academic use.  We saw no valid reason to support it since it had to ties to our academic 
programs.


Doug Brooks
Campus Technologies
Parkland College
Champaign IL  61821

Email: dbrooks () parkland edu<mailto:dbrooks () parkland edu>
Office: 217-353-2661
Cell: 217-621-8550




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Randy
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 7:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] gamer clubs

Thanks to those that have responded. I believe that I need to add more to my initial post.
We are a community college, no degree in gaming, the request has the backing of one faculty member and a few students 
that have formed a gamer club.

Definitely an isolated network, they desire and we would agree this would be a BYOD computer, on the fence with 
allowing third party switch/hub/routers, they are asking for 50mb rate limit, at first blush is seems high.
Additional thoughts, we have no policy that directly addresses gaming clubs. Someone brought up NAT issues with some 
games and the number of external IP addresses, a concern that I had also heard was reputation blocking on the addresses.
Thanks again,

Randy Sprague
Enterprise and Infrastructure Manager
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College

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Randy
Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 4:55 PM
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Subject: [SECURITY] gamer clubs

Hello, I have been requested to provide connectivity for a gamer club using the college's network and internet 
connection. What are others doing? Am I over reacting by not allowing such activity?
Thanks much,

Randy Sprague
Enterprise and Infrastructure Manager
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College


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