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Re: Utilization of ethernet in resnets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Updegrove)
Mon May 2 23:28:32 1994
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 23:10:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: danu@dccs.upenn.edu (Dan Updegrove)
At Penn, our first year experience has been:
* 600 rooms wired (one wall plate per pillow, plus living rooms and
lounges) for a total of 1900 connections
* 1,500 students in the five wired buildings
* 400 IP addresses in our BOOTP database
We have a survey out to the customers (all undergraduates) to determine
how much sharing of roommates' connections and how much modem usage
occurred this year. We've also asked about PC ownership and lab usage.
Other potentially relevant factors:
* We made no-charge visits to install IP software for Macs, DOS, Windows
* No LocalTalk or asynch services available through connections
* Student computer ownership is about half Mac, half Intel
* E-mail available to all students
* Penn has an engineering school
* No charge for students in wired buildings to activate connections, but
they had to pay for ethernet cards or adapters.
We were pleasantly surprised with the number of activations, and we expect
a higher ratio of activations/students next year.
Regards,
Dan
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Information Systems and Computing Phila, PA 19104-6228
Executive Director 215 898-2883
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