[K12OSN] Thin client specs or network speed - which is more important?

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I hope everyone is doing well.
>>
>> I have been working to tighten up the network and one of the options
>> that I have is to try to upgrade our thin clients (they are all
>> Pentium I/II and some IIIs with about 128 MB RAM) or to upgrade our
>> entire network speed to gigabit.  We don't use any locally-run
>> applications.
>>
>> We are running K12linux based on Fedora.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>     
>
> Upgrade the clients. 100Mbps is fine for clients but have a gigabit
> uplink to server.
>
>   

That depends on what is meant by "upgrade the clients."  If you mean 
"add some DRAM to the existing clients," then I'd agree, 'cause there's 
nothing wrong with those clients.  A few years back, 32MB in the clients 
was enough, but now I typically put 256MB in mine 'cause of the way 
Firefox does image caching in X11.  I still have a Pentium-166 MMX and 
some AMD K6-2's from 10-12 years ago, and they work great.  They have 
100Mbps cards, and they have decent video boards (Matrox Millenium G400, 
ATI Radeon 7500, etc.).

+1 on the "upgrade the *server* to Gigabit" suggestion.

--TP
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