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We throttle YouTube for teachers and block for students, btw we use a SonicWall which I highly recommend for the cost/features ratio (even compared to open source stuff). //Riley Riley Childs Senior Charlotte United Christian Academy IT Services Admin Library Services Admin web: rileychilds.net twitter: @RowdyChildren Checkout our new library catalog: catalog.cucawarriors.com -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stuart Yeates Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:54 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Bandwidth control We had complaints from students about other students using the limited resource (in this case student computers) to do facebook / youtube. We negotiated with the students union that certain sites would be blocked from those machines for a certain busy period during the day. Negotiation with the students union appeared to be hugely important in deflating any protests. cheers stuart On 05/08/14 02:20, Carol Bean wrote: > A quick and dirty search of the list archives turned up this topic > from 5 years ago. I am wondering what libraries (especially those > with limited > resources) are doing today to control or moderate bandwidth, e.g., > where viewing video sites uses up excessive amounts of bandwidth? > > Thanks for any help, > Carol > > Carol Bean > [log in to unmask] >