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Any way you can find out? I don't know anything about MAC's but I do know
that cable modems are essentially what is called a "shared node". This
means that the more people in your community (not just at the school) that
are actively using their cable modem the slower everyone's connection is.
This might explain why it slows down in the afternoon.
If you have a dedicated T1...congratulations. This should be plenty of
bandwidth and this is not the problem. But you may have a fractional T1
which is not nearly as fast.
Are there other labs/computers in the school that are used more in the
afternoon? On a fractional T1 you would start "bogging down" if the music
teacher decides to play some streaming audio to her afternoon classes.
The 15 computers that just plain stop might be because you have a bad
hub/switch or you may have some software that has reached/exceeded the
number of licenses/concurrent sessions that have been purchased for it.
Does this occur with the same computers or can you close one that is working
and then get another that did not work to work?
As you can tell there are many possibilities. Do you have anyone at your
school/district/county that is paid to fix these kind of problems? If so, I
would contact them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Geronzin" <geronzin@hobbes.cis.net>
To: "Keith Dzura" <kdzura@southeastern.stokes.k12.nc.us>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 7:06 PM
Subject: RE: Re: Networked Computers
> I know we have a fiber optic cable between our two buildings, and a T1
> line, I don't know if we have cable modems.
>
> Kathy Geronzin, District Librarian
> Northeast Community School District
> 3690 Hwy # 136
> Goose Lake, IA 52750
> phone 319-577-2249
> FAX 319-577-2248
> e-mail: geronzin@hobbes.caves.net
> The opinions expressed are my own.
>
> Keith Dzura wrote:
> >Is your internet connection via cable modem?
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Kathy Geronzin" <geronzin@HOBBES.CIS.NET>
> >To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> >Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 1:21 PM
> >Subject: Tech: Networked Computers
> >
> >
> >> There are two buildings in my school district that are
> >networked and
> >> connected by fiber optic cable. In the afternoon when we try
> >to use the
> >> 20 computers in the lab the Internet connections get so slow
> >they might
> >> as well have stopped. Five computers might continue to make
> >connections
> >> and the other 15 stop. There are IMACs in the lab. In the
> >library I
> >> have five MACs and I have the same problem. Two or three will
> >connect
> >> and the other ones come to a stop. Can anyone tell me what
> >they think
> >> the problem might be? The IMACs are supposed to be the fastest
> >> computers in our school. TIA
> >>
> >> Kathy Geronzin, District Librarian
> >> Northeast Community School District
> >> 3690 Hwy # 136
> >> Goose Lake, IA 52750
> >> phone 319-577-2249
> >> FAX 319-577-2248
> >> e-mail: geronzin@hobbes.caves.net
> >> The opinions expressed are my own.
> >>
> >>
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