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On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Simon Waters wrote:
On 12/01/12 20:51, Gordon Henderson wrote:Or in an org. with offices all over DevonI was thinking I have over 10Mbps down from the net, which is more than I had when I first ran a thin client over a lan first time.
20 years ago I was running X applications on a computer in California, displaying on a terminal in Bristol... Via a 56Kbps line... It was slow though, but proof of concept workable! (It all went downhill after that ;-)
Wonder how many of these commodity routers can do DHCP forwarding....
Not many...
Okay the uplink is pathetic, but that might not be so bad for a thin client depending what precisely they are doing.
They're doing simple officy type work - email, publisher, word and I suspect the bean counters are using excel and Quickbooks or Sage...
I don't know too much - yet - my wifes only been there 2 weeks (part time), but from what I gather, it's all relatively new computers and so on, with Win7 installed as standard, so they've already paid the MS Tax on them, so I suspect they'd much rather stick with what they know - for now.
WRT speeds - the place my wife is working - Seal Hayne (not working for Seal Hayne, the charity rents an office there), seems to have a leased line from BT, so that's all "managed" for them. I've not ascertained the speed yet, but I'm guessing it's 10Mb. They have free wi-fi all over the site too - if you want to go there for a coffee/scone - the cafe is OK.
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