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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...
The 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.
Computer Services said at the time that students using programs with high bandwidth requirements “can sporadically overwhelm a wireless network access point.”
Computer Services officials are aware that their work is not done. “FAS Computer Services is continuing a more comprehensive survey to investigate over-subscribed access points,” wrote Hess. “As resources allow, additional access points are being deployed in key areas.?...