Bandwidth available to the Internet via the commercial circuit will be 10 megabits per second. MP3 traffic will be restricted. In conjunction with the change in network administration, IT will work with the residence halls to produce an educational document about network etiquette. Council asked whether the approach Davis was taking was different from approaches used by other campuses. Doug replied that there were three methods generally applied.
Most campuses follow an approach similar to one chosen.
Other campuses ban MP3 and others employ caching servers to cache MP3 traffic to reduce the impact on the bandwidth.