Nature of the Service
The Service provided to students is intended for reasonable use by a person using a computing device, and is provided to support academic needs. Other non-academic uses are allowed but not supported by Prescott College staff.
Allowed uses of our service include but are not limited to:
- Web surfing.
- Sending and receiving email.
- Sending and receiving photographs.
- Social media.
- Occasional on-line gaming.
- Occasional streaming of videos and downloading of files.
Prescott College will troubleshoot and repair connection issues that prevent academic functionality, such as accessing student e-mail or online courses. However, while Prescott College allows non-academic use of the internet, it will not troubleshoot or assist with non-academic issues such as online gaming, social media, or watching movies online. The quality of non-academic applications or services may change without notice.
Prescott College prohibits use of its network that is criminal, unethical, reflects poorly on the character of Prescott College, or that limits the bandwidth available to others.
Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to:
- Torrents, without exception.
- The continuous unattended streaming, downloading or uploading of videos or other files.
- Maintaining an unattended or continuous uninterrupted connection to the Internet, such as through a web camera or machine to machine connections that do not involve active participation by a person.
- Operating an Internet hosting service, such as web hosting or gaming hosting.
- Any use that impairs the user experience of other users, or that otherwise impairs network performance.
Wireless Internet service has limited bandwidth capacity. Wireless service can suffer from congestion and reduced performance when usage by some individuals exceeds the usage of typical individual consumers, thereby having a negative impact on the entire network. This acceptable use policy is intended to ensure that the activities of a single person or a few users does not unfairly impair the activities of all users of the service. Please govern yourself accordingly.
Additionally, at the time of this writing, the wireless signal in each suite is generated from an access points on each floor. These access points broadcast both 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks. For the best experience, connect to the 5GHz network if your device is able to.