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

[cdmiller <cdmiller@xxxxxxxxx>]

Damiano Verzulli wrote:
> 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!

Having run rooms full of X Terminals and workstations using X 
applications and NFS mounted home and application directories on 10 Mbps 
wired links in the semi distant past with no trouble, I personally don't 
see the bandwidth concern with using X over 802.11b, and 802.11g is also 
cheaply available.  The ease of sniffing passwords etc. on unencrypted 
wireless or wired networks is of course a different problem.

- cameron