{"id":689,"date":"2013-04-04T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wavecrestcomputing.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2013-04-04T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:31:25","slug":"march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wavecrest.net\/index.php\/march-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wavecrest Computing <\/a>has heard about it every year for 15 years\u2013companies complaining that their bandwidth is slow and their overall productivity is down, all during March and early April! What is going on? Madness, they say\u2026March Madness!<\/p>\n

The bandwidth strain can be a big problem. According to a recent survey, 66 percent of workers say they\u2019ll follow the games during work hours, with 20 percent expecting to spend one to two hours following games, 14 percent spending three to four hours, and 16 percent saying they will spend five hours or more watching games instead of working.*<\/p>\n

How do you control this type of bandwidth usage? While you may or may not allow your employees to follow the games at work, you will want to ensure that it doesn\u2019t interfere with your network. Wavecrest Computing<\/a> offers Internet filtering by category or site, white list filtering, real-time Web monitoring<\/a>,<\/span> and detailed Web-use reports<\/a> on a particular category or site and bandwidth usage. Some of the many Wavecrest CyBlock features that monitor bandwidth or access to sports sites are:<\/p>\n