[K12OSN] gigabit vs 100Mbit improvement for LTSP

[David Trask]

"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Thursday, March 2, 2006 at 3:55 PM +0000 wrote:
>We have no real problems with the responsiveness of the terminals, at 
>100Mbit - but I would like to improve it, make it as similar to a real 
>workstation as possible.
>
>As its a cybercafe, most everyone uses Firefox and Gaim or AMSN.  They
>are 
>customers - they pay, and could go elsewhere if they don't like it for 
>whatever reason.
>
>Flash and Java on some pages is slow.  Any webpage with video or
>animation.  
>I would like to allow the occasional simple game, also, but that would 
>quickly kill the bandwidth.
>
>But as we're in brazil and everything costs 3x as much, NXserver is more 
>within our actual realm of possibilities it seems. .


You will notice a considerable difference with gigabit

David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100