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Harvard is cracking down on computer users who are hogging bandwidth and blocking their neighbors from logging online. But the effort hasn’t helped some River House residents who still complain that they can’t get a consistent wireless signal from their dorms...
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services has implemented “User Based Rate Limiting” in the River area—a mechanism that “prevents one or two users who are using a program that consumes large amounts of bandwidth from monopolizing an access point,” according to Computer Services spokeswoman Elizabeth Hess...
...crackdown on bandwidth hogs began after Computer Services announced in September that it had received repeated complaints from students who couldn’t connect wirelessly from their dorms...
...much. Over the next three years, U.S. towns will pony up nearly $700 million to build municipal networks, predicts MuniWireless.com As a public utility, wi-fi has undeniable benefits. City workers can use low-cost VOIP (voice-over-Internet protocol), and police and firefighters have a high-speed bandwidth for on-the-go access to data like criminal records and building plans or live shots from security cameras...
...works. One consortium plans to invest $500 million to lay the first transpacific cable directly linking China and the U.S., while another is planning a link between Southeast Asia and the U.S., bypassing Taiwan. Technology is also being developed for "smart" networks that could automatically allocate bandwidth where needed, making disaster recovery faster-but all operators would need to adopt...