[K12OSN] thin client laptops/Asus EEE

[Will Hatch]

Thanks for all of the great feedback folks.  With your imput, I have
been able to convince the principle that a mobil lab is not our
solution.  He has selected a room off of the library to make a permanent
lab.  Now I have to get a proposal together for a server, operating
system platform, and about 25 thin clients.  I'll be considering Windows
terminal services, edubuntu, and k12ltsp.  Again, thanks to everyone who
responded to my initial post; it was the difference in getting my
principle to look into dedicating a room for computer lab purposes. 
-Will

>>> Huck <dhuckaby at hvja.org> 04/14/08 12:44 PM >>>
Symbol makes a nice wireless single point of management of multiple 
access points(antennas) ...
http://www.motorola.com/business/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=3fc0e90e3ae95110VgnVCM1000008406b00aRCRD&vgnextchannel=9d9de90e3ae95110VgnVCM1000008406b00aRCRD
long url...wow...
that's the one I got and use...but I do NOT do LTSP on it ;)
it's simply to cover the entire school with 5 antennas...and works like 
a charm...I actually had to tone down the antennas to about 50%
I was covering too much area(with the 'iTouch' site-survey we did)...and

at 50% it still blasts through solid-pour block walls(1950's
construction).
in comparison the 'airport in the maclab' can only go down the hallways
:)


Almquist Burke wrote:
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> On Apr 9, 2008, at 2:51 AM, Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:
>> And let's also add that the 54Mb/sec available with 802.11g is 
>> *shared* among all the wireless devices that associate with that 
>> wireless access point.  Translation:  HUB.  Very bad for LTSP.
>
>     The above is why wireless doesn't scale well. Plus you have the 
> security issues.  Sure you CAN try to scale it, but getting the 
> "equivalent" performance to a 100mbps wired network means multiple 
> high end 802.11N access points. You need WPA, probably with a RADIUS 
> server, and enabling that usually entails a performance hit on most 
> access points. Hence why you need so many, in addition to the fact 
> that wireless is a shared medium and performance drops as you mover 
> further away.
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>     IMHO, the best setup for a school is 6-7 clients per room (plus 
> one for the teacher) and lab(s) for when you need one to one.
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