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Hi Gordon, As a fellow Seale-Hayne user, may I bring to your (or your wife's) attention the "Can't Stand Singing" seated choir. Next meeting is scheduled for 19th Jan. More info on www.cant-stand-singing.org.uk Regards etc, Ray. >----Original Message---- >From: gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx >Date: 12/01/2012 21:31 >To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subj: Re: [LUG] Well - there's a change... > >On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Simon Waters wrote: > >> On 12/01/12 20:51, Gordon Henderson wrote: >>> >>> Or in an org. with offices all over Devon >> >> I was thinking I have over 10Mbps down from the net, which is more than >> I had when I first ran a thin client over a lan first time. > >20 years ago I was running X applications on a computer in California, >displaying on a terminal in Bristol... Via a 56Kbps line... It was slow >though, but proof of concept workable! (It all went downhill after that >;-) > >> Wonder how many of these commodity routers can do DHCP forwarding.... > >Not many... > >> Okay the uplink is pathetic, but that might not be so bad for a thin >> client depending what precisely they are doing. > >They're doing simple officy type work - email, publisher, word and I >suspect the bean counters are using excel and Quickbooks or Sage... > >I don't know too much - yet - my wifes only been there 2 weeks (part >time), but from what I gather, it's all relatively new computers and so >on, with Win7 installed as standard, so they've already paid the MS Tax on >them, so I suspect they'd much rather stick with what they know - for now. > >WRT speeds - the place my wife is working - Seal Hayne (not working for >Seal Hayne, the charity rents an office there), seems to have a leased >line from BT, so that's all "managed" for them. I've not ascertained the >speed yet, but I'm guessing it's 10Mb. They have free wi-fi all over the >site too - if you want to go there for a coffee/scone - the cafe is OK. > >Gordon > >-- >The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list>FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq