We take the position that a residential user should expect a similar experience to what they would get at home. It's one of the best ways to prevent residential users from finding ways around bandwidth caps e.g. free VPN to get around Netflix cap. If Netflix is causing you bandwidth issues, increase your Internet bandwidth. Internet costs keep going down, and we've been able to increase our bandwidth with no increase in cost i.e. when our 1Gb contract was up, moving to 10Gb was the same price. 1) Check with your local ISP and get them to direct peer with Netflix - It's Free - everyone should do it. Our regional EDU ISP did this for us. 2) Talk with Netflix about one of their local caching appliances. https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/ Jeff
>>> On Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 8:46 AM, in message <dm2pr0101mb1005ea65a6295a939459fcd5be...@dm2pr0101mb1005.prod.exchangelabs.com>, "Alexander, David" <alexa...@ohio.edu> wrote: I wanted to know if Netflix has been a problem for other schools, specifically those with large residential campuses. We’ve seen usage on our campus grow a lot over the past few years, and our response has been to implement a bandwidth cap on Netflix from 8 am to 10 pm. This pretty much makes Netflix unusable during the day. When we lift the bandwidth cap at night, Netflix takes up around 40% of our total traffic. I’m curious if other schools are dealing with Netflix bandwidth issues and what solutions you have implemented that allows students to enjoy Netflix without impacting the usability of the network. Thanks, Dave ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
