[ELECTRON] Electron Club, excess bandwidth and computers

[Paola Di Maio]

Martin
we are planning to book the room for an event in february, for which
we require fast and reliable access for up to a dozen ppl for a day.
What's the speed of the wifi network over there?
some of us may be able to bring lan cables too if that helps

thanks
PDM


On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Martin McGrath
<mcgrath.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've spent quite some time here over the last couple of days investigating
> potential causes of bandwidth excess problem.
>
> There are two machines currently connected to the router in the club room.
>
> 1. Compaq 5221, AMD K6 380Mhz, 320MB RAM. Running Windows XP, missing lots
> of patches, no Antivirus software installed.
> 2. Ubuntu based machine, reasonable spec CPU, 512MB RAM. Running an
> unsupported (ergo unpatched) version of Ubuntu.
>
> In the interests of security please don't operate a Windows PC without anti
> virus software installed, it's just common sense.
> Please user Firefox as your default web browser.
>
> The XP machine had no application software other than uTorrent (a bit
> torrent client) and CClean installed.
> This machine is terribly slow, I've earmarked a machine to replace it which
> is significantly faster and we have more RAM in the cupboard which I can
> fit.
>
> Do we really need a Windows machine in the club? I'd like feedback on this
> please.
> A linux machine is just as easy to use for everything this machine could
> have been used for, and far easier to maintain.
>
> The XP machine passed a full system virus scan and three rootkit scans.
>
> I plan to upgrade the Ubuntu machine to a version of the operating system
> which is at least supported. If anyone has data they'd like backed up please
> do so, or let me know where and what it is and I'll do it for you.
>
> The room still has it's WIFI point, at the moment secured with WPA-PSK, the
> details for which are on the poster on the right as you enter the room.
> I plan on investigating this more at a later date.
> I disabled the WIFI point on the modem running in the comms room. There was
> no point in us having two.
>
> I'm not convinced that anyone would waste time cracking the WPA passphrase,
> given that there are two other open access points in the area.
>
> I plan on documenting and laminating some notes about EC kit, the network,
> the computers etc. I'll get round to this once I've fixed up the systems in
> question.
>
> Snail mail has arrived for the following people, I've left it in a neat pile
> on the table:
>
> Mitch Miller
> Glasgow Social centre limited (two items)
> Robert Hamilton
> Jonathan Agnew (two items)
>
> When I arrived yesterday the place was a bit of a mess. There were chairs
> all over the place, some rubbish on the table, an old mug of what I assume
> was coffee and papers scattered over the desks.
>
> I've done a little tidying but I've got other things I need to be doing at
> the moment.
> The room is a space for all of us, please tidy up before leaving.
>
> Have a nice Christmas and a safe New Year.
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin
>
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