Since our return from spring break we have noticed increase use of Bandwidth which is causing a general slowdown of Internet access. By cross referencing a snap shot of our users and the use of bandwidth we've determined that there has been an increase of downloading and streaming during the school day. This causes an Internet slow down for everyone. Here are a few recommended practices that may help improve internet speed.
Avoid downloading and streaming music, radio and videos during the school day unless absolutely necessary for teaching and learning.
Many video and music files can be downloaded before and after school, saved and used from your hard drive or a server during the school day.
Avoid having multiple students searching video and music at the same time. assign the task to one or two students when occurring during the school day.
Avoid running web based applications in the background and on auto start up like Skype MSM, etc. These applications should not start automatically and only be run when needed.
Remind students that they should not be streaming or downloading music and video files during the school day unless requested by a teacher.
Only use "Youtube" directly when necessary. While researching this issue I came across a statement saying filtering Youtube solved all Bandwidth Internet speed issue at a stateside school.
Keep Computing!
Steve
Your Friendly IT Guy,
Steven Roberts
Technology Coordinator
Walworth Barbour American International School
"The man who can make hard things easy is the educator." by ~Ralph Waldo
Emerson~
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