This upgrade will help us improve throughput between desktop computers and campus servers. One serves students, one serves faculty and staff, the third serves the community and the fourth is a separate student pool for those student's whose program pays for them to receive extra dialup time. We allow people from other educational institutions, non-profit organizations, local governments and public agencies to get guest access on our dialup pool. They use a separate modem pool, term server and computer. Student Pool Students currently get free dialup access.
Problems sometimes occur because some people use the dialup connection far more than others.
There is no pre-set hour limitation excepting that the lines will disconnect after three hours. These funds are used to provide a pool where we maintain a ratio of 15 students to each modem line. There are no hourly limitations on this pool. After the end of Spring97 we instituted a rationing system whereby students were limited to five hours of connect time during weekdays. You can see the effect of the connect time limits in Figure 2 below.