WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University is turning to technology to get kids to focus on lectures.

Starting this week, the university has banned streaming services, such as Netflix and Hulu, inside all academic buildings.

Professors had complained so many students were streaming shows and using so much bandwidth that academic applications wouldn’t work, Chicago Tribune reports.

“There’s a finite amount of bandwidth available,” Mark Sonstein, the university’s executive director of information technology infrastructure, told the Tribune. “If you have people who are streaming a movie, then they are consuming all of the available bandwidth.”

While other schools have rounded up cell phones during class, or banned them entirely, Purdue is believed to be one of the first schools to ban streaming services specifically.

LINK: https://wgntv.com/2019/03/20/p...-academic-buildings/

You're in college to learn. If you want to watch TV, stay home

Must be the liberal arts side. On the engineering side you could never keep up that way.

Mitch Daniels is the only state university head in the country who knows how to run one.
Decreases in tuition year after year.

Proud Purdue alumni here. I 100% support this decision.

We had to do that on a remote construction project a few years back where we had a man camp on-site and had offices. It's amazing what a device like a Meraki can do for improving mission critical data streams. For example, during business hours my buddy who was the admin for it had Facebook limited to 56k total (yep, 600+ people sharing dial-up speeds) and then after business hours were over opened it back up for morale. Another example, everyone there was on rotational shifts (e.g. 4 weeks on / 2 weeks off) so he shutdown Apple updates as you can do it on you're back home.

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We had to do that on a remote construction project a few years back where we had a man camp on-site and had offices. It's amazing what a device like a Meraki can do for improving mission critical data streams. For example, during business hours my buddy who was the admin for it had Facebook limited to 56k total (yep, 600+ people sharing dial-up speeds) and then after business hours were over opened it back up for morale. Another example, everyone there was on rotational shifts (e.g. 4 weeks on / 2 weeks off) so he shutdown Apple updates as you can do it on you're back home.

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Way too much stuff to distract college students these days. No wonder ADD is so rampant.