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May 14, 2009
As I sat through a DSL install at one of our schools this morning, I Tweeted my excitement at finally leaving a fractional T1 behind at this particularly remote school. The bandwidth, usually running around 200kbps, has seriously hampered our efforts to roll out e-learning tools, so a 6MBps pipe (2 aggregated 3MBps DSL lines) is a huge upgrade.
“6MBps?” you say…that’s nothing! And you’re right. It’s painfully slow by modern standards and yet is hardly the worst had by many schools in the States. Obviously, urban schools are going to see much greater bandwidth and fiber penetration; even the other schools in our district (aside from the one, lone school noted above) can get 15MBps cable. Our little town is not that extraordinary among other rural communities, though...
As I sat through a DSL install at one of our schools this morning, I Tweeted my excitement at finally leaving a fractional T1 behind at this particularly remote school. The bandwidth, usually running around 200kbps, has seriously hampered our efforts to roll out e-learning tools, so a 6MBps pipe (2 aggregated 3MBps DSL lines) is a huge upgrade.
“6MBps?” you say…that’s nothing! And you’re right. It’s painfully slow by modern standards and yet is hardly the worst had by many schools in the States. Obviously, urban schools are going to see much greater bandwidth and fiber penetration; even the other schools in our district (aside from the one, lone school noted above) can get 15MBps cable. Our little town is not that extraordinary among other rural communities, though...
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