Ok, so this week is finals week at my school. Which means vatos that didn’t even know where Alden library was for 10 weeks have now begun to flood into the front doors. But, that’s not really a problem.
Here’s the problem, the school’s internet.
Now, I’m going to post a letter that out IT department sent out:
“OHIO Students,
Due to extremely high demand, the university’s Internet connection currently does not have enough capacity to meet service expectations and results in noticeably slow connections at times.
Traffic analyses have shown streaming media usage accounts for nearly two-thirds of our current demand, with Netflix being the largest single consumer of our Internet capacity.
In an effort to free up the bandwidth faculty and students need to complete academic online tasks during finals week, the university will be instituting a temporary limit on the total bandwidth available for Netflix traffic. The restriction will go into effect this evening, Monday, March 14 at 6:00 pm.
OIT appreciates your patience as this temporary corrective action is taken. We welcome and encourage your thoughts on a more permanent solution as we engage the university in planning on this critical issue.”
So what does this really mean? Basically, it means that OU some how underestimated how much people would be using the internet, even though the volume is always increased around finals time. This is nothing new, so IT should have been prepared.
Two, the IT cut off certian features of the internet. So for example, past around 11 am, Youtube will not even load, real talk. And as you all can see, they total cut off Netflix.
Now, I see this as a problem, especially for Netflix users. For one, those users pay $8 a month for Netflix service. So for the IT department to tell those users that they can’t watch movies, they are basically wasting part of that $8. Two, we as students pay almost $19,000. We should be able to use up a much internet as we want ya know.
So, I think it’s all a big conspiracy. They knew students would get mad and frustrated over not being able to watch movies and would just end up studying. It was all a ploy I tell ya’.
