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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Austin Gossmeyer wrote: > > >>> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:35:29 +0100 >>> From: gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx >>> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Subject: Re: [LUG] Mounting Partitions >>> >>> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Austin Gossmeyer wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> You also don't say what the Internet b/w is... If it's ADSL or cable, (or >>>>> SWGFL) then RAID-0 might be overkill as you'll still be network b/w >>>>> bound... If Janet speeds then you might find the server is the bottleneck! >>>>> >>>> SWGFl is our isp. >>>> >>> I'm so sorry. >>> >> Thank you I am glad I am not the only one who think they are terrible. >> >> We have also lost our connection so many times it is not funny. As I am >> the low man on the totem pole it is unlikely it will ever change. :-( >> > > Oops. > > When we were involved, it was part of the Buckfastleigh Broadband Project > - which was a govt. sponsored project in investigate the impact of > broadband in a rural community... Anyway, SWGFL were starting their > roll-out in the SW and somehow we managed to persuade them to give us a > feed from the local primary school - so we got a 2Mb link to them and from > there via the 'grid' to the outside. (We got the school pushed to the top > of the list via some creating writing, getting DIY SOS involved, etc. too > as they're mostly local to the area :) > > I understood that schools had a 3-year tie-in period - primarys were > getting 2Mb and secondarys 8Mb.... By now the initial tie-in must be over, > so any small school who's paying for a lesed line when a good ADSL > connection would do must be bonkers - however there is the nice promise of > a filtered and "school safe" web feed for them.... > > Damn. I'm in the wrong business - again. For a few days of my time I could > create a black box solution to give a school/college 2 LANS (admin, > teaching), filtered ADSL feed, small local fileserver with backup, cost > effective PBX, outsourced email, intranet/web server, blah, blah, blah. > We're back at school servers again /rant/ > > Gordon > I guess there's nothing stopping you putting a box like that together (I presume you'd be able to use one of your existing PBX boxes to so that sort of thing?), but I guess it's getting in the schools which is the problem. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html