[SGVLUG] Still shopping for school computers

[Lynette]

That is really interesting.
At my school, we are running NComputing as well.
OS is windows, what I have noticed is that the keyboard, mouse or both will lock up and we would have to restart the host computer.  Maybe it is more stable with the host workstation and three terminals as we have one host with five terminals.

in the other location, we are using a host workstation with five terminals - sometimes, the host workstation will power down for no reason.


~Lynette



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From: Joel Witherspoon <joel.witherspoon at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 8:04:19 PM
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Still shopping for school computers

 We purchased the 300 box (host workstation and three terminals) which allowed one host with four monitors and N-boxes as an educational center in the classroom. The 500 series was debuted at Tech Ed this year. If budget allows, we will begin to purchase them.

We didn't have computer issues per se, just network issues. The jacks on the N-boxes and the PCI card are RJ-45 so you can plug them into a wall jack, but the traffic will have to route correctly in order for the systems to work. Originally we had it set up this way. We had to create separate networks for each classroom (with atomic EIGRP routing numbers) in order to work properly. This setup is not recommended as it creates a huge routing table with poison routes if a computer goes down. I would suggest buying one small switch (Netgear $30) for each classroom and switching the N-box PCI card with that. Let the host computer handle the network traffic (enable QOS control on the configuration for the card) and it will work well.


      
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