[342] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Double Dipping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Nelson)
Wed Sep 14 12:22:23 1994
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 10:50:13 -0500
From: nelsonp@GBMS01.UWGB.EDU (Philip Nelson)
To: Resnet <resnet-forum@MIT.EDU>
>Here at Washington University, we have just about to start full ethernet
>connections to student rooms. This is supplamenting the 24Hr Computer
>Clusters that they already have access to in each of their residence
>halls. I have a question that was posed to me by a student and thought
>I would query this group about your own experiences.
>
>This year, inroom connections have been paid for. There is a discussion
>about charging students either for the connection to their rooms
>individually or having a "fee" attached to their housing bills to pay for
>all of Residential Computing. That is not the question, though. Once
>connections to their rooms becomes complete, they will pay for it one way
>or another. Modem connections is the subject de jour.
>
>All of the schools here at the University provide some sort of modem
>access for their students. By definition, this means that all students
>are "paying" for this service. (The schools provide these connections
>at no direct charge to the students that use it.) Now, if resident
>students are asked to pay anything for access to main campus, they are -
>in effect - paying for access to the same things, twice. Why should
>they? Should the schools stop providing modem access and require
>students that want to use the modems to get to the campus network pay for
>"accounts"? I can see the student newspaper now.
>
>Thoughts? Solutions? Experiences at your institutions?
How can you compare a modem connection to an ethernet connection at the
same value? We currently offer free modem access also and are considering
adding slip access as well. Our dorms are wired for 10bT and all
discussions about activating them have been with the assumption that those
activated rooms would carry a surcharge. It is more expensive to provide
10bT and provides much better access so why not have those recieving the
"better than standard free service" pay extra?
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