[K12OSN] gigabit vs 100Mbit improvement for LTSP

[light being]

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. .


>From: Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net>
>Subject: Re: [K12OSN] gigabit vs 100Mbit improvement for LTSP

>While it depends on the apps you're running--tuxtype has been shown to 
>consume about 73Mb of network bandwidth, but I think that's the except 
>rather than the rule--the consensus is that the ideal configuration would 
>be to have a gigabit card in the server connected to a gig port in the 
>switch, and have the clients connect at 100Mb which is plenty for them.  
>OTOH, I'm a bit surprised to hear of problems with only five or six 
>terminals, assuming you're using a switch with 100Mb ports.
>
>Petre
>
>light being wrote:
>>I have a network with only six five terminals, but it seems that already 
>>the video performance has a bottleneck somewhere... perhaps the 100Mbit/s