Re: [school-discuss] Wireless network ambulance for classrooms w/o wired network connectivity

[Damiano Verzulli <damiano@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Howard wrote:
> [...] convert our elementary school's network to support 
> LTSP/thin clients, one of the challenges we have is that due to 
> construction 
> [....]

Please note that, while driving along the way of the LTSP/thin_client 
adoption, another challenge you might face with, expecially employing 
wireless-lans, it's the bandwidth!

As the standard LTSP rely on the X protocol and the X protocol consumes 
lot of bandwidth, I think that with a 11Mbps links you could experience 
some problems!

In order to avoid such problems and, also, in order to "improve" (a bit) 
the overall quality of the whole architecture, you should take a look at 
NX technologies (www.nomachine.com). It should be added to LTSP quite 
easily. Please note that the "core" of the NX architecture is 
_open_source_ and, as such, can be used freely. There're also a FreeNX 
project, somewhere on the web, that should embed all (and only) the 
open-source components of NX (but I can be wrong. Please check!).

Please note that NX let user to access a central server via a graphical 
interface also with a standard 28.8 kbps modem. Something simply 
impossibile with standard X protocols.

HTH.

Cheers,
Damiano		// who read a lot about NX but never tried it!


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