This deployment involves "only" 50 laptops in each of two schools with 8 to 10 classrooms. I'm not sure if the laptops stay in two classrooms or if they move around the whole school.
The 400mW Ubiquiti device seems a good choice for a smaller number of laptops over a wider area, but I'm no expert on these things. How many walls can the TL-WR741ND penetrate? Is a higher transmit power only really relevant if you're talking to an equally powerful partner? Is the building penetration limited by the less powerful laptop? On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 09:38 -0400, Carlos Daniel Garay Ayala wrote: > In Paraguay we decided (and tested) Tp-Link TL-WR741ND, Access point > plus router around 26 USS, which is fully supported by OpenWrt, in > case > you want to monitor usage (telnet + ssh). With two of this you can > cover > a school with 50 laptops, provided there are 25 per classroom. > > 2010/7/18 Tom Parker <[email protected]> > Hi, > > We are going to Samoa for 2 primary school deployments with 50 > XO-1.0 > laptops in each school, on 30 July 2010. We've been asked to > set up a > wifi network and School Server at each school. Here is what we > think we > are going to buy for each school (ie, we buy twice what is > presented > here, one set for each school), please advise if you think we > are on the > wrong track here. > > 1 EEE Box EB1012 - 2GB ram, 250GB hard disk, dual core 1.6GHz > Atom 330 > 2 Ubiquity Networks NanoStation2 802.11b/g 400mW Outdoor > AP/Bridge > 1 Switch > > Climate: island nation so some salt but schools are somewhat > inland, > temperatures 24 to 31 degrees, humidity 70 to 80% > > Do we need a gigabit switch? > Should we upgrade the harddisk or add more memory? > > Thanks > Tom (and Tabitha) > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > > > _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
