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I like the site but the hyperlinks are slow
the only problem also is that usually a whole class might be on at a time – try to imagine that as 30 people trying to talk to you all at the same time – hard eh!!
The School is working on upgrading from its current 2Meg connection to a whopping 10 Meg Connection – that might make a difference as well!
i think that you should put on more of the bullitin like a calander for early lunch or something like that
I think that the school blog is quite a good way to see whats going on in the school at the moment. And it gives us a lot of information.
“Computers with a faster connection speed, maybe broadband”
- SparrowX
Broadband isn’t a connection speed itself, in the same way as you would refer to a “T3″ connection etc.
The Oldmeldrum area is amazingly slow to upgrade to new telephonic systems, so the limit was 56KBps for an agonizingly long time, prompting me to make a cartoon about it a while back.
2.2MBps is undoubtedly the maximum speed as of just now, and divided amongst all the pupils simultaneously using the network it isn’t much.
‘ima05walshj’ might find the blog inadequately slow, but both the school’s upload/download speed seems quite reasonable.
It’s more the network speed that I’d say seems inefficient, often I will end up waiting 5-10 minutes for my computer to fully log on at the start of a period.
Are all the startup programs for a network account necessary? Quicktime for example?
It’s interesting to read all the comments on network performance. Please keep them coming.
The schools broadband is provided through a WAN link to Woodhill House in Aberdeen and isn’t affected by the Meldrum phone exchange. It’s now changed from 2mb to 10mb. I can get speed of 3mb per second when the network isn’t in use.
Regarding network boot up and logon times, the reason why these are slow is that security settings (GPOs) are applied to each PC at boot up and to each user at logon. The need for heavily restricted networks in schools means the network is slower than a normal unrestricted network.
would it not be a good idea if the teachers put up their email addresses? not easy to remember IMAsomeone@somethingsomething.something. if mrs macleod could get in contact with me then that would be great.
I think that a section about cooking would be great!
Someone could put on all the HE recipe books so they’re availible
to everyone all the time! Just an idea.