The entrance gate and walkway on the campus of the Purdue University on Oct. 22, 2017 in West Lafayette, Ind. (Ken Wolter/Dreamstime/TNS)
Faced with WiFi that too often slowed to a crawl during the middle of class, Purdue University has taken a bold step to restore order to its network: It has banned Netflix.
The West Lafayette, Indiana, campus is blocking the popular streaming video service in all of its academic buildings, along with other bandwidth-eating sites such as Hulu and HBO. The move comes after some faculty complained that the network had become so slow that academic applications were unusable during class.
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