On Tuesday I sat in on training with Brian and Merritt for the packet shaper that we recently installed. This device is very interesting, it allows the administrator control to the amount of bandwidth that each process is allowed. We cut down the peer to peer web site to 16 kb per second where before they were up to 3 megs per second. This freed up some of our bandwidth and also stopped illegal downloads. We are looking at limiting Netflix since it is a large user of our bandwidth. I also did some testing with Brian on the new internet connection that we are getting that will increase our bandwidth from 100 meg per second to 200 meg per second.
On Wednesday I help Merritt with some issues that the digital signage on the second floor of founders was having and I worked on the network map.
I had to cut Wednesday short due to studying for an exam in Forensic Science.


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