[ELECTRON] Electron Club, excess bandwidth and computers

[Paola Di Maio]

Martin
thanks for reply below
I cc Keith who is the lead organiser for this day
I ll leave you two to liaise over this
cheers
PDM

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Martin McGrath
<mcgrath.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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