[ELECTRON] Electron Club, excess bandwidth and computers

[Martin McGrath]

Paola,

I'm pretty sure it's just basic BT ADSL broadband, so I guess it depends
what sort of traffic you expect you'll all need. Perhaps if you could
provide further details I'd be able to give a more detailed answer. I
believe the router in the club room has two free Ethernet ports.

Cheers

Martin

On 22 December 2010 14:54, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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