Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (225 mails)

["Mark Evans" <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:17:49AM +0100, Christopher Dawkins wrote:
> 
> > Is this really true ?  I cannot see why a school - any more than anyone else
> > needs a symetrical Internet feed.
> 
> Averall, and at present, I agree with you, but once the school becomes a
> "centre of learning" with a good quantity of information and active
> learning material on its own intranet server, then pupils will be
> accessing it from home ("anytime, anywhere"). So during evenings, weekends
> and holidays it will need high outgoing bandwidth. There are times in the
> holidays when we have more outgoing than incoming.

Yet the way many of the RBC set things up, by default, allows
no access to any systems within the school from outside. In
order to get this you have to make a big fuss and possibly 
pay the RBC extra money.

Until someone at the LEA intervened the SWGfL wanted to 
charge us several thousand pounds for a handful of
protocols they'd been told about 9 months before they
even provided any service.

-- 
Mark Evans
St. Peter's CofE High School
Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109
Fax: +44 1392 204763