[wellylug] K12 Project

[Rob Giltrap]

Citix and Tarantella both provide a good experience at 128kbits

It's worth trying it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lindsay Hunter" <klhunter at paradise.net.nz>
To: <wellylug at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:16 AM
Subject: RE: [wellylug] K12 Project


> I am unsure at this stage of that issue. I recall using Citrix a couple
> years ago on Win98Se and being astonished at the speed. It loaded Word
> faster than the local PC could. What was very slow was the swapping of a
> graphic file from the local drive tto the server and back. So it is not
> impossible? Similar technology.
>
> L
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lloyd [mailto:lloyd at fusion.net.nz]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 19 March, 2002 22:19
> > To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: RE: [wellylug] K12 Project
> >
> >
> > Hey
> >
> > As good an idea as this sounds, remeber a 500k cable is only 128k
> > upstream, I'm guessing most graphics applications would not be at all
> > usable at this speed?
> >
> > I think it would be better to put up some information about the project
on
> > the wlug website and offer free demonstrations. Make a few boot disks
take
> > a server and place it on the school lan, boot the school machines off
the
> > disks and show them it working on their home turf...
> >
> > just my 2c
> > Lloyd
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Lindsay Hunter wrote:
> >
> > > I think short term, we need any hub at all. A small 4 port hub,
> > sometimes
> > > found in the obsolete basket would work fine. That may be what
> > was used the
> > > other night? From that, we will be able to assess LAN demands
> > and adjust?
> > >
> > > I agree that switch performance might be useful once we are up
> > and going.
> > > Seems higher priority will be to work out how to implement if
> > it can't be
> > > usefully installed over 500K cable? Wake on LAN cards will be
> > necessary? I
> > > have no experience with them. I note that an alternative is to boot
the
> > > Eth0 from a floppy, see http://www.rom-o-matic.net/
> > >
> > > I have a Pentium 400 behind Coyote running RH7.2 that might
> > make a useful
> > > starting point. Better offers?
> > >
> > > Lindsay
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Centurion [mailto:Centurion at paradise.net.nz]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, 19 March, 2002 11:50
> > > > To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com
> > > > Subject: Re: [wellylug] K12 Project
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I can supply a hub at better prices then Dick-Smith, and I
> > may be able to
> > > > get a cheap second hand one depending on your needs.
> > > >
> > > > Daniel
> > > > Centurion Computer Technology Limited
> > > >
> > > > On 2002.03.19 06:20 Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> > > > > <snip>
> > > > > > my one man LAN to test things out... now if Jamie could
> > tell me where
> > > > > he
> > > > > > got his dinky little hub from that would be useful.
> > > > > <snip>
> > > > >
> > > > > My dinky little hub was purchased from Dick Smith - they
> > usually sell
> > > > > them
> > > > > at a reasonable price.
> > > > >
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