On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 00:11, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > I did a test after purchasing my own wireless card. In downloading > the same file from the same remote site with a wired and wireless > machine. The wireless machine got 40K per second, while the wired > machine got 8K per second. This is probably a temporary situation and will change as more users start to share the wireless link. > The campus is setup by MIS with 4 Class C networks running on a > single physical network (no subnets, no routing.) Only router is the > one that connects to the T-1 line, and it has a 10MB ethernet > interface. Three of the 4 networks are in the dhcpd pool, so I end up > with classroom have a mix of all 3 networks. Without added routing > entries, traffic would have to go thru the 10MB rounter instead of > directly. If your 4 class C's are adjacent and aligned on the right bit-boundary they could be supernetted with a netmask of 255.255.252.0. That won't help with internet access, but machine<->machine communication would not need to bounce though the router. I'd be surprised if that isn't the case already. > So, working with MIS isn't an option at this point. I was thinking of > adding a wireless card to my fedora machine which also runs a > squid proxy server used by my lab. > > Is there something that would help this, or am I wasting my time.. If most of the lab communication is workstation<->server you could dual-nic the server with a NAT configuration and use a local switch for the lab workstations. Adding a wireless link would work, but in this situation it sounds it would be even better if someone could set up a larger caching proxy that your squid and others could configure as a parent to share the cache. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
