To inform the University of Minnesota Residence Hall tenants and the rest of the U of M students of the acts of the Networking and Telecommunications Services's actions to restrict residence hall tenants of bandwidth without notification.

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Our sincerest thanks go out to Mark Yudof and Steven Cawley (for their quick responses), and to the rest of the visitors to this site for raising awareness to this issue. We are glad to have some closure after all of the events of the past few weeks, and would like to take this moment to state that we truly had no malicious intent by creating this website and documenting all of the information that we could aquire. We found it to be of utmost importance to uncover the reasons behind the network problems and create a forum to have the information displayed freely for any interested party to have access to. We realize that the disclosure of the restrictions upon and unstable nature of the University's network over the past few weeks may have irritated or offended some, but as we said before it is important for us all to know as much about the matter as possible, and to be able to raise awareness to such a matter. To do so would violate the fundamental basis of this University.

The information available on this website will remain available either until hits to this site decrease to a minimal amount or the end of this semester, which ever come first. Happy viewing!

Information:
Current Information: Information about the restrictions on ethernet access in the residence halls
PacketShaper Summary: A summary on the capabilities an possible usage of PacketShaper
Response From Mark Yudof: Mark Yudof responds to an email from one of us about the rate limiting issue.
Response from Steven Cawley to Dana: Steven Cawley responds to Dana about this issue.
Response from Steven Cawley to Residents: Steven Cawley responds to Residents about this issue.
ADCS IP Limits Email Links: Links to the images scanned from our printout provided by an ADCS employee
Email from David Farmer: This is an email confirming that NTS implemented the Packeteer, with poor results
Opinions:
Editorial Letter: The editorial letter we submitted to the Minnesota Daily 02-20-2002
Net-People Discussion: A discussion on the Net-People list on the slowed network
EC's Opinions: A friend, EC, voices his opinions and concerns about the current situation
Thomas's Opinions: A friend, Thomas, voices his opinions and concerns about the current situation
Links
PacketShaper ("The Packeteer"): A link sent by our friend at ADCS to the device being used by NTS to limit bandwidth.
Email Addresses: Email addresses to NTS and ADCS employees, provided through the ADCS email
Office of Information Technology: The Governing Body for Computing Services at the U of MN
Academic and Distributed Computing Services: Computing Service website at the U of MN
Networking and Telecommunications Services's: NTS website
ResNet:ResNet is the network service provider in the residence halls at the U of MN
ResNet Faq on "Ethernet": Description of Ethernet services offered on ResNet
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