There are more academic uses of the internet. Residence use is increasing. External Internet Service Providers do not allow users to set up servers, whereas students in residence are setting them up. Setting quotas on individuals is administratively unfeasible. Innis College residence has been identified as using an inappropriate amount of bandwidth.
Students using the service inappropriately are in violation of the Code of Student Conduct.
Therefore we have the mechanisms to take action. If the division chooses not to take action, then the institution must take steps to protect itself. Therefore we must use the mechanisms that exist to take action. A separate pipe for residences would force s them to face this problem. There was consensus among the Committee that the onus of changing behaviour and dealing with the consequences of abusing the system must be placed on the people responsible for managing the residences.