Re: [LUG] Mounting Partitions

[Austin Gossmeyer <ancwg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I tried to pitch this how much would it cost to have it set-up?

> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:10:32 +0100
> From: gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [LUG] Mounting Partitions
>
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Austin Gossmeyer wrote:
>
> >> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:35:29 +0100
> >> From: gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx
> >> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Re: [LUG] Mounting Partitions
> >>
> >> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Austin Gossmeyer wrote:
> >>
> >>>> You also don't say what the Internet b/w is... If it's ADSL or cable, (or
> >>>> SWGFL) then RAID-0 might be overkill as you'll still be network b/w
> >>>> bound... If Janet speeds then you might find the server is the bottleneck!
> >>>
> >>> SWGFl is our isp.
> >>
> >> I'm so sorry.
> > Thank you I am glad I am not the only one who think they are terrible.
> >
> > We have also lost our connection so many times it is not funny. As I am
> > the low man on the totem pole it is unlikely it will ever change. :-(
>
> Oops.
>
> When we were involved, it was part of the Buckfastleigh Broadband Project
> - which was a govt. sponsored project in investigate the impact of
> broadband in a rural community... Anyway, SWGFL were starting their
> roll-out in the SW and somehow we managed to persuade them to give us a
> feed from the local primary school - so we got a 2Mb link to them and from
> there via the 'grid' to the outside. (We got the school pushed to the top
> of the list via some creating writing, getting DIY SOS involved, etc. too
> as they're mostly local to the area :)
>
> I understood that schools had a 3-year tie-in period - primarys were
> getting 2Mb and secondarys 8Mb.... By now the initial tie-in must be over,
> so any small school who's paying for a lesed line when a good ADSL
> connection would do must be bonkers - however there is the nice promise of
> a filtered and "school safe" web feed for them....
>
> Damn. I'm in the wrong business - again. For a few days of my time I could
> create a black box solution to give a school/college 2 LANS (admin,
> teaching), filtered ADSL feed, small local fileserver with backup, cost
> effective PBX, outsourced email, intranet/web server, blah, blah, blah.
> We're back at school servers again /rant/
>
> Gordon
>
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