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Staff from the Department of Student Life and Library and Technology Services have teamed up to develop guidelines concerning student use of Brandeis network resources. The guidelines limit students to sending no more than 10 gigabytes of information to or from the Internet in a 24 hour period.
Students can check their current network resource useage at netmon.unet.brandeis.edu.
LTS and Student Life created these guidelines to promote responsible network use and to discourage inappropriate use of file sharing software. File sharing software often consumes large amounts of network resources, and transferring copyrighted material without permission violates University policies.
When a student's computer has used 7.5 gigabytes of data in 24 hours, an automated LTS system will alert the student to this fact by email. If a student's computer reaches 10 gigabytes in 24 hours, the same system will block that computer from accessing the Internet.
Blocked computers will be unable to access the Internet for 24 hours. They will still be able to access Brandeis resources such as email, Latte, and library journals.
Students should avoid exceeding the guidelines. If a student goes over three times, LTS will refer him or her to Student Life's Office of Student Development and Conduct for education about limited resources.
10 gigabytes is enough to transmit 30 hours of video, 350 hours of audio, or more than 7 million pages of text.
Many other schools enforce similar guidelines, including Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, UConn, and Purdue. Those schools all have lower thresholds, averaging less than 3 gigabytes per day, and with the highest being 5 gigabytes per day.
