1. The University of Toronto does NOT provide unlimited access to the Internet.
2. UofT provides Internet access from student residences for the purpose of furthering the academic careers of students. Some personal use of such access may be permitted, provided it is legal and restrained to not consume excessive bandwidth. Examples of uses that consume excessive bandwidth are Napster and popular Web servers, frequent transfers of large files, receiving or sending continuous live audio, video and movies, and these should be avoided.
3. The limits on permissible bandwidth consumption may be relaxed for specific academic purposes, upon application to the residence administration, with demonstrable proof of academic value and need. Any such relaxation may be subject to verification of use.
4. The permissible bandwidth limit will be determined by CNS and posted from time to time in publicly accessible fora (such as web pages) and the residences.
5. The initial limit will be 750MB total traffic, summed over a one week period, from Monday to Sunday.
6. The limit applies to traffic to/from the University from/to the Internet. Traffic to/from campus facilities is not subject to this limit.
7. Students may acquire Internet access from commercial providers, such as Bell Sympatico HSE, or Cable modem, if the constraints described in these Regulations are unacceptable.
8. Students who exceed the permissible traffic levels will be subject to the following sanctions, to be imposed by the network administrators of the individual residences:
   1. First offence: denial of total network access for one day
   2. Second offence: denial of total network access for one week
   3. Third offence: denial of total network access for the remainder of the term
9. Students who attempt to circumvent these Regulations through technical means (such as changing ports or subverting other campus facilities) will face permanent denial of network access, and possible sanction under the Code of Student Conduct.

Editorial Comments for Residence Administrators:

1. CNS can provide information on freeware that students can download and use to monitor their progress towards the traffic limit, on a real-time basis.
2. CNS provides publicly accessible web pages that show the traffic generated by students in residences by IP address, on a daily basis.
3. These web pages will be modified to generate an email message to the residence's network administrator for action, when a student exceeds the traffic threshold. CNS will assist the residences to implement IP address control systems that will facilitate the identification of offenders.
4. If the residence administration is incapable of controlling the Internet bandwidth consumption by their students, then such residences will be placed on a separate, logical, bandwidth constrained "pipe" to the Internet, such that their students' abuse of Internet bandwidth does not impair other university users. The residence, or its students will be able to increase the size of this "pipe", by purchasing additional bandwidth from the University.
5. In this eventuality, the residence administration should make available tables, listing the assignment of IP addresses to individuals or their room numbers, to allow students to recognize the large consumers of bandwidth.