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...traffic on the FAS network--that is, traffic that originates when users from the outside world retrieve data from student computers within the network--has led to a congestion of sorts. File-sharing is one prominent source of such traffic; students who share their music collection through Napster utilize bandwidth even when they aren't the ones who are actively downloading. The same holds true for hosting a website or FTP server. Since bandwidth is a finite resource, it acts in many ways like a highway. Increases in traffic lead to congestion, which in turn leads to a general slowdown...
Earlier this week, Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) presented a comprehensive, three-pronged solution to the problem. The first two parts of the plan--educating users about responsible bandwidth use and improving the network infrastructure over time--will do much to alleviate traffic in the long...
Students present at yesterday's meeting questioned both the fairness and the effectiveness of the propsed firewall system. One frequently voiced concern was that HASCS should increase network bandwidth, or the size of the pipe through which all network information travels...
Ouchark said that increasing bandwidth is a possibility but that it does not provide a long-range solution, as traffic is bound to increase more and more every year...
...current traffic shaping policy, which limits outbound network traffic to 10 percent of bandwidth, is similarly not a permanent solution because of the difficulties involved in setting a specific amount of traffic that can flow in the outbound direction. A fixed limit does not account for changes in the total traffic...