[K12OSN] wifi wireless k12ltsp support status

[Julius Szelagiewicz]

On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, [ISO-8859-1] "Terrell Prudé Jr." wrote:

> Barry R Cisna wrote:
> > Does anyone have any thoughts here on,,,if,, the MIMO / "N" Ap's would
> > be any benefit in regards to making wireless with thin's a doable
> > option? The school purchased 10 N/ MIMO AP's (for spares)that are just
> > sitting in boxes. The way I see it if even two of these Ap's were put
> > into existing wall mounted switches per lab this should be a starting
> > point. I'm not enough of a bean counter maybe to see how quickly the
> > AP's would become saturated with even slim use with say 30 thin clients
> > per room. The downside, without wireless cards being able to do PXE this
> > seems to be almost a no-go at this point:(
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >
>
> Wireless LTSP has been discussed ad nauseum on this list, as far back as
> 2003, and as recently as this week.  Again, it's a very bad idea, given
> how wireless networking works.  If you want to try it...then good luck!
> The fact that it's "N" wireless doesn't change things.
>
> Stick with thick-client Linux boxes if you're doing wireless...yes, even
> "N" wireless.
>
I concurr. Terrell is right. The only way I found wireless useful in LTSP
environment was to bridge networks in two buildings where I couldn't run
fibre or wire. Plain vanilla G is fine for 3 terminals and 6 thick
clients, as long as no heavy on graphics apps are run - disable screen
savers!
julius