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ResCom Increases Bandwidth Limit to 4GB

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By , March 17, 2008 12:32 pm

For some time now, I have been a supporter of improving the ResCom service for students living in the residence halls. This is partly because I was formerly the ResCom student supervisor at Penn State Mont Alto and saw firsthand the shortcomings of internet service in University residence halls. With help and support on behalf of students from CCSG, I have advocated for both an increase in bandwidth restrictions as well as improvements to the registration process.

On Friday, an announcement was made that beginning this week, bandwidth limits will increase from 2GB/week to 4GB/week. Additionally, network throughput during the day would increase 120%. This is a major improvement for the residence halls. However, it should not make us forget about improving the service in the long-term. Here are my suggestions for ResCom, which I presented to University administrators 2 weeks ago in a formal letter: Continue reading 'ResCom Increases Bandwidth Limit to 4GB'»

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Save Bandwidth: Use Penn State’s WSUS Server for Windows Updates

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By , November 26, 2007 3:03 am

At the last SACITS meeting, someone brought up an interesting idea for saving commodity internetbandwidth in the residence halls. Because ResCom counts all internet traffic outside of Penn State against a student’s bandwidth limit, any Windows Updates also get counted against this limit. The reality is that there doesn’t seem to be any way to exclude the Windows Updates website from counting against bandwidth limits. This is where the Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) may be able to fix the problem. WSUS allows client computers to download updates from a server on the LAN instead of windowsupdate.microsoft.com. If a WSUS server were placed on the Penn State network for students living in the residence halls to use, it would allow them to download Windows Updates without facing the possibility of bandwidth penalties.

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