Changes to ResNet fair usage policy: new on-peak usage allowance
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You may have noticed in the Network Usage section of My ResNet that for the last two weeks we have defined a weekly allowance at off-peak times as well as the usual on-peak allowance. From monday 11th February we are now enforcing this limit.
What are the limits?
The limits are now 35GB off-peak (midnight to 6pm) and 5GB on-peak (6pm to midnight). If either of these limits is exceeded then your connection will be restricted.
The off-peak restriction works in exactly the same way as the on-peak restriction by moving your connection to a different network segment with other high traffic users. Your connection will be limited to web and email for the remainder of the week. You will get the usual warning email at 80% of allowance so you don’t have to keep too keen an eye on your MyResNet page.
Will this affect me?
It is highly unlikely that you will be affected by this revised policy. In the last 2 weeks only 19 users (0.4% of ResNet) exceeded the 35GB limit with 5 of those (0.1%) exceeding it both weeks. It is not something for most people on ResNet to worry about. We've only introduced it because a very small number of people on ResNet were using an extremely large amount of the capacity.
More information
To check your usage see My ResNet. For more information see the Fair Usage Policy or information about how to control your network usage. If you have any further questions or you wish to comment on this change then please email us at resnet-help@bristol.ac.uk