[Year 12 SofDev] Open slather internet

[Quinn, Steve Sq]

Hi 

We give the students 200Meg per year free after that they have to pay
for further usage. We also offer the students edulist free. At the
moment we are trialing edulist for all students 7 - 10 and a general
list for 11 - 12. 

The overall problem as I understand it lies in our duty to provide
students with research capability via the net and if we charge students
to use the net the kids who don't have money miss out, and this is a
hindrance and can also be looked at as discriminate and unfair and so on
and so on. 

Cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2007 9:29 AM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Open slather internet

We make 'em pay per megabyte.  That calms down their downloading  :-)

Russell Curr wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> We give students 25 meg per week, managed automatically via Papercut
running on Suse 10 on the gateway.  It works very well.
> 
> cheers
> Russell
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Russell Curr
> Network Manager
> Avila College
> Ph: 9831-9645
> Fax: 03-9888-1202
> email: russell at avila.vic.edu.au
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
>>>> jgy at sthelena.vic.edu.au 05/09/07 9:03 am >>>
> 
>  
> Hi all,
>  
> sorry if you get this a couple of times.
>  
> At the moment we have an open slather internet policy and some kids
are downloading excessive amounts. We are currently considering limiting
monthly downloads to 40 MB. Is this too much? What are the limits at
your school? Do you charge students who exceed their limits?
>  
> Thanks again for help
>  
> Regards
>  
> Jim
> 
> 
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