[wellylug] K12 Project

[Lindsay Hunter]

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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