Computer Support
Terms and conditions of network use
For students, the charge for an ethernet room connection and wireless connection is £24.54 per term or part thereof. This charge is integrated into the Utilities section of the College bill and will be payable by all students in a College room that has access to the network facility. There is no charge for a wireless connection in the College public areas.
This charge covers a number of costs associated with the connection, including the initial administration for connection and the hardware and software required to maintain the good working order of the network.
Students are expected to provide their own ethernet 10BaseT or 10/100/1000 BaseT adapter cards, where necessary.
The charge for an ethernet room connection also authorizes students to use the College academic wireless service in public areas. The wireless service, in the public areas of College, is not intended for bedroom use.
Since 1999 the College has been charged for its share of the University's network traffic and this is met from its general academic computing fund. However the situation is being regularly reviewed in the light of rapidly increasing recreational use of the network. The College has a duty to control its costs and if a user incurs excessive charges the College reserves the right to recoup charges incurred by an individual user. The College does monitor use, and will make every effort to alert a user if their activities are likely to result in a charge.
It is the responsibility of the student to report non-working network points, in her bedroom, to the IT Office, and to put a request for repair in the Maintenance book at the Porters' Lodge. It is further the student's responsibility to follow-up such a request until the work is complete. Problems that are not resolved should be reported to the IT Office.
Conditions
The prime purpose of the network connection is the furtherance of academic studies. Although some modest recreational use is allowed, all network use must conform to the rules laid out below. The College reserves the right to immediately disconnect any network connection from the Murray Edwards College network pending investigation, if breaches of the rules are suspected or if the work of other users is being disrupted.
Use of the network by the user is subject to the following rules. Since some of these rules may change from time to time they are not reproduced here but may be reached by selecting the links provided below.
- Rules made by the Information Strategy and Services Syndicate of the University of Cambridge:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/isss/rules/isss.html- Guidelines on interpretation of the above rules:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/isss/rules/guidelines.html - Rules relating to the use of IP addresses in the University of Cambridge:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/network/ip/ipcond.html - Rules for the publication of information on the WWW in Murray Edwards College
- The CUDN Acceptable Use Policy:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/isss/rules/other/network/cudnrules.html - The JANET Acceptable Use Policy:
http://www.ja.net/company/policies/aup.html
- Guidelines on interpretation of the above rules:
- That the user agrees and consents to statistical data being gathered on their network usage, including identification of remote sites and traffic volumes to or from those sites. This data may be used for (1) network administration; (2) advice to or cautioning of that user; (3) possible charging for excessive use.
- The following local rules:
- The good name of the College shall not be brought into disrepute.
- The user agrees that their network connection is to be used for one device only (unless prior permission has been granted by the IT Manager) and that they will use only the IP address issued by the computer office for that socket.
- In the event of a conflict between these rules and a user's academic access to the net, the user should consult the College IT Manager.