It's been making the news cycle in the academic arena. Apparently Purdue has decided to block all streaming services from their academic buildings. Some reasons listed for the decision:
- Bandwidth is expensive (wut?)
- 1 person streaming will consume the entire network bandwidth (Again...WUT?)
- Professors want the students paying attention(News flash, students have ignored professors for centuries!)
- 20% of the wireless users are still 2.4Ghz only(don't buy it) so they will not be migrating to 5Ghz
Reading more on the story from various sources make me question the competence of their networking team.
Articles about the block:
- https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-purdue-netflix-ban-20190318-story.html
- https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/03/04/purdue-university-extends-streaming-website-ban
Found this thread in here from a few years ago. This might shed some light on the issue as well.
All I can say is....wow.
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