[541] in Resnet-Forum
Re: charge for service?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lee Watkins)
Tue Mar 7 19:18:34 1995
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 19:03:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Lee Watkins <lwatkins@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9503071831.AA05179@dagobah.Stanford.EDU>
To: Jeff Merriman <birdland@dagobah.Stanford.EDU>
Cc: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU, Lee Watkins <LWATKINS@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
At Johns Hopkins, the schools of Arts &Sciences and Engineering provide
in-room connections for undergrads at the cost of $35 per year. This
currently includes mostly asynch and some ethernet, next year will be all
ethernet although students will be able to connect asynch to a
communications server if they don't have an ethernet card or don't want it
for some reason. HOWEVER, the cost will be more on the order of $15-20
*per month* because the whole campus is going to start paying per-port
charges. It is likely that the Dean of student affairs will absorb most
if not all of this cost during the coming academic year, since incoming
students were not informed in advance. Students will still pay the $35
"connection fee". Note that none of these fees provide any direct money
for student support personnel.
As an aside, I was really interested in Jeff's note about 1 RCC for every
100-150 students. For our budget this year, we are requesting RCCs for
the first time, and for supporting data we went through the Resnet-Forum
archives and tried to figure out what level of resources most schools
provide. As it turns out, we came up with an average of about 1 RCC for
every 100 student computers. Of course, we also face the problem where
some residence houses are so small they will never have 100 nodes, but
they'll still need a resident support person.
Lee Watkins
Asst. Director of Academic Computing
Johns Hopkins Univ.
