For faculty and staff, wireless connections are limited only by the technology in use. We don’t cap the number of connections. For students, we don’t cap the number of sessions, but we do cap throughput at 30 mbps. We do limit Netflix sessions for everyone to 5 mbps, which Netflix says is sufficient for a full HD feed. We specifically limit Netflix because they represent roughly 1/3 of our daily traffic.
We are, over time, slowly lifting the student limit, looking for the breakeven point between allowed bandwidth and available bandwidth. Bill Seward | Director of Information Technology Office of Information Technology P.O. Box 960 | 48380 US Hwy 52 Misenheimer, NC 28109 Office 704-463-3066 | Fax 704-463-1363 pfeiffer.edu<http://www.pfeiffer.edu/> | facebook.com/PfeifferUniversity<http://www.facebook.com/pfeifferuniversity> | @Pfeiffer1885<http://www.twitter.com/pfeiffer1885> instagram/PfeifferUniversity <http://www.instagram.com/pfeifferuniversity> | youtube.com/PfeifferUniversity<http://www.youtube.com/channel/UClrggh7TvtboLiHdS-kKHzQ> For assistance with an IT-related issue, call Tech Support at 704-463-3002 or email us at techsupp...@pfeiffer.edu [advancement:public:GARY:stationary:Pfeiffer BB color logo email sig logo.jpg]<http://www.pfeiffer.edu/> This email, including attachments, is intended for the person(s) or company named and may contain legally privileged information. Unauthorized disclosure, copying or use of this information is prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient, you may not review, copy or distribute this message. If you received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the original message. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Britton Anderson Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 2:25 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Throughput Caps on Wireless I wanted to start a thread based on a link that was shared on the netman list this morning. This article<http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2016/02/campus-dormitories-keep-connection-demands> from EdTech Magazine highlights several University networks and implementations specifically to enhance the user experience of wireless access. This article intrigued me, specifically the mention of Dallas Baptist U's posture of capping individual wireless devices to 10Mbps. Our group has long discussed similar postures within our Cisco wireless infrastructure, but its always circled back to not fettering access to campus resources such as shared drives despite my arguments that power users of shared storage should, and probably are, using a wired connection. Thus we fall back to continuing to use our upstream Packet Shaper for internet only traffic, which does not cap throughput rates per user. How many of you have taken this, or similar stances on your wireless networks? Alternatively, is there anything else that you're doing to optimize user experiences? Thanks, Britton Britton Anderson<mailto:blanders...@alaska.edu> | Senior Network Communications Specialist | University of Alaska<http://www.alaska.edu/oit> | 907.450.8250 ********** 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/.
