I agree it's good to think about. Are personal phone calls _STRICTLY_ prohibited, or allowed "within reason"? Power?
Can you check ESPN scores over a cup of coffee? Buy a doodad from amazon.com on your lunch time? Does a 32KB stream cost some money? Yes. Does providing coffee in the breakroom? Yes. What's the cost to human morale and productivity? In an office of 50 people, if 10% might choose to stream some music. Is that 160Kb really cutting it that close on your ISP connection? Heck, toss the protocols in a bandwidth queue and let them have it if no other higher-priority traffic needs the line... No absolute answers of course, but things to think about. -sc -----Original Message----- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS True, it's not a perfect argument, but here we do pay more for power than Internet. Just trying to change the perspective of the way we look at it. Sam -----Original Message----- From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS That is the same in wording only. The pipe electricity comes down is so much larger and cheaper than the pipe bandwidth for streaming radio comes down. That is exactly the apples and oranges conversation. Both are edible (play music), both are good for you (consume power or bandwidth), and both are not required (you could be working instead). -------------------------------------------------- From: "Sam Cayze" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:41 PM To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS > The company also provides power; can they plug in a radio and use your > electricity? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:05 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> > wrote: >> You fire people for Streaming Radio? Yikes. > > FWIW: We haven't, but we do have it in our policy manual that > streaming media without a business purpose is forbidden, and subject > to disciplinary action. I have had to have a few people formally > written up, but it's never gone beyond that. > > We also endeavor to block that stuff at the proxy server, but > filtering is imperfect. > >> If the network suffers, the whole business suffers - >> but that's IT's fault, not the person streaming a radio station. > > They get disciplined for flagrantly disregarding company policy, not > for harming the network. We always stop it before it comes to harm. > > I've got no objection to streaming radio on principle; it's just a > question of resources. The company isn't providing an Internet feed > so people can listen to the radio on their PC, and we're not about to > spend money upgrading it for that, either. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
