Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-10 Thread Reuben K. Caron
Daniel Drake wrote: 2009/3/9 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org: We will have roughly 8+ AP's. We have found that off-the-shelf AP's can handle around 60-70 users. But that doesn't still doesn't solve the problem of the XO's getting bogged down by tons of ejabberd chatter. DSD: do you have any

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-10 Thread Rangan Srikhanta
Folks, Here at OLPC AU, we are using Linksys WRT54GLs using DD-WRT and configuring the routers to act as an AP according to the following instructions. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Access_Point I found I could turn the WRT54GL into the required AP mode in 10minutes, using

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-10 Thread Dev Mohanty
Rangan, I remember the Linksys routers used to drop connection, as soon as 33-34 clients were logged in, and as Bryan mentioned we got much better perfomance with the readily available Taiwanese brand of APs. With a Linksys 25 odd clients works just fine though with heavy traffic. With the

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-10 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/3/10 Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org: Have you tried loading a different firmware on these, dd-wrt? No, but there are regulatory issues there and we won't be using them in the schools...only used them because it was

[Server-devel] notes on scaling ejabberd for the XO's

2009-03-10 Thread Bryan Berry
Here are some notes from a short IRC conversation I had w/ Rob Mcqueen, the lead developer of Telepathy transcript of conversation on #sugar bemasc: bernie: I am concerned about the fact that in the default schoolserver set up all users are in one giant shared roster Robot101 RESOLVED,

Re: [Server-devel] Serving 400+ students w/ a single central XS - ejabberd nightmare?

2009-03-10 Thread John Watlington
If you aren't going to place school servers in the actual schools, and insist on centralizing them, the hardware recommended by Sameer is a good idea. My argument has always been that you want local web caching and content, and that an XS shouldn't be that much more expensive than the above