The Reason Behind All This (Score 1)

If the school truly needed money for more bandwidth for the school then they should just raise their fees by a few dollars. I know from reading that an OC3 line costs around 130k a year to have, so at a school like mine with 30,000 students all that would be required would be a $2.50 fee increase each semester and then the OC3 line would be paid for. The security with or without dialpad didn't change when dialpad came into existence. The firewall or lack of firewall at the school, previously, was already allowing some ports to be open otherwise dialpad wouldn't have worked in the first place. I know it doesn't go through firewalls unless they have a certain data port open on them. I know this, because I have tried it. The real reason is that the school is mad that students are not using their school long distance cards and paying a fortune for it. In my dorms I have to pay 15 cents a minute to call long distance and only in my own state. Out of state can be upwards of 25 cents a minute. Compare this to AT&T only costing 7 cents a minute to anywhere is the US. The school is losing a little bit of money on poor college students not having long distance bills anymore, what a shame.