I myself work at a high school which requires every student to own, and use a laptop in class. They have this year put in place a $200,000 NZD WLAN system. The school, entirely focused on being on the bleeding edge of technology, refused to look at the practicality of putting a 802.11b system, the head of IT being perhaps someone vaguely reminiscent of the BOFH's boss... The school, which previously was only running 10Mbps Ethernet, assumed that 10 would be enough for any student. They failed to see however, that sharing one 11mbps Wireless hub with a class of 30 was insufficient, and really only resulted in frustration by the students, when their browsers timed out for the tenth time. To further this, they only then provided a 100mbps backbone for these AP's, which was again insufficient for 1800 students simultaneously using the internet or other network resources (the school employs a groupware system for teacher-student document distribution etc). The school is now, a year later, looking at upgrading all the ap's to 802.11a, at further cost to the students and school. Wireless isnt ready for schools.
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I myself work at a high school which requires every student to own, and use a laptop in class. They have this year put in place a $200,000 NZD WLAN system. The school, entirely focused on being on the bleeding edge of technology, refused to look at the practicality of putting a 802.11b system, the head of IT being perhaps someone vaguely reminiscent of the BOFH's boss... The school, which previously was only running 10Mbps Ethernet, assumed that 10 would be enough for any student. They failed to see however, that sharing one 11mbps Wireless hub with a class of 30 was insufficient, and really only resulted in frustration by the students, when their browsers timed out for the tenth time. To further this, they only then provided a 100mbps backbone for these AP's, which was again insufficient for 1800 students simultaneously using the internet or other network resources (the school employs a groupware system for teacher-student document distribution etc). The school is now, a year later, looking at upgrading all the ap's to 802.11a, at further cost to the students and school. Wireless isnt ready for schools.