Sunday, April 21, 2013

Student Computers caused IT crisis - Östgöta Correspondent

municipality’s IT systems were knocked out by high school students.

Just before lunch yesterday collegians had the connections on the Internet is limited to about five per pupil and then began the municipal Internet system working again.

most capable local government IT system 65000 network connections at once. The more connections, the slower the system becomes.

municipal connections online has sometimes been down for the last week.

The city administration has sighed and with just weeks left of the semester, the high school started talking about a crisis.

When the internet is down, as it has done now for the last time, I feel that it is, says Willy Johansson, IT Manager at Kungsgård School.

Internet has become an integral part of teaching.

In just one year the number of computers in the local IT network has doubled, said Thunell. Then one can not speak of a gradual increase that can adapt to.

She does not think students should have to be connected to more than 2 or 3 sites simultaneously, to cope with their schoolwork. But the IT department has discovered that many of the between 3500 and 4000 high school students have been out on up to 10 sites at once.

Janne Stenstrom / NT

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