[K12OSN] another bandwidth question

[Brian Chase]

You want to block internet radio, and other streaming media that's not 
required.  Surfing and email will not usually saturate a T-1 line, even 
for several hundred users.  I'd suggest having some sort of policy to 
limit the use of Instant messaging, however that's not a bandwidth 
hungry application.  The reason I suggest this is for liability reasons.

Jay Pfaffman wrote:

>I'm setting up some k12ltsp boxes in a school.  I'm a university professor
>who's offering free computers and at least some free support.  (I still
>feel a little like I'm saying "I'm from the Government and I'm here to
>help.") The tech guy, who has a reputation for not being very helpful, has
>been fairly accommodating (I'd be suspicious of someone putting stuff on
>my network too).
>
>His plan is to light up one network port per classroom.  No problem, I 
>say, the server (I'm planning to use the teacher workstations as 
>servers for about 5 thin-clients) will use the only connection & all the 
>other computers will still be able to surf the web even though they're not 
>on the school's network.  "I'll not have it" is the reply.  His concern is 
>that if people are actually using the Internet the T1 will get saturated.  
>
>I've already considered things like Squid & doing bandwidth limiting and
>such & will propose those "solutions" when the time comes.  (I suggested a
>proxy server to which he said he was using NAT, so it's not clear that he
>understands a caching proxy server.)  My question is, "how many users will
>a T1 typically support?"  Do many schools have a fatter pipe than a T1?
>
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