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Re: Funding models for ethernet connectivity in student residences
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nschmidt@MIT.EDU)
Thu Oct 28 12:13:48 1993
From: nschmidt@MIT.EDU
To: resforum-mtg@menelaus.local
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 12:13:43 EDT
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 11:31:03 -0400
Message-Id: <199310281531.AA01576@ponyexpress.princeton.edu>
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
From: balestri@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Diane Balestri)
Subject: Re: Funding models for ethernet connectivity in student residences
In reply to Mary Simoni:
At Princeton we tried unsuccessfully to accomplish the room fee increase
seems to be falling into place at Northwestern. The perception of
administration has been that in-your-room network connectivity isn't
crucial enough to warrant a fee increase across the board, at a time when
every tenth of a percent in annual increases has become an agony to levy
and to publicize.
So, instead we have launched Dormnet as a fee-based operation. Students
pay $50 annually to connect to the campus broadband network. Within a
year, all the connections will be ethernet, so some students will have
additional hardware costs to bear. In the first two months, 970 (of 4500)
students have signed up for Dormnet. Interestingly, about 40% are
first-years. CIT is subsidizing the Dormnet program with the network
hardware and connection support. We are beginning to train a cadre of
students to provide user support.
Diane Balestri
Manager, Instructional and Media Services
