satelite connection

[metrix007]

At my school we've got a pretty good setup. The sat dish running @ 400Kbs, at best, goes into a linux box to the proxy and to the switch cabinet. My friend and i have chosen to do an assingment to find a way to speed up the bandwidth tot he user on the system. The Proxy and the Linux are 400Mhz and below. The Sat decoder is a card in the linux box.

Any reason why linux has to control the sat dish, if not, can we just put it straight into the proxy??

 

[jimbopalmer]

You may well find this article relevent to our problem

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html

you may wish to run speed tests and tweak tests at

http://www.dslreports.com

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Maybe upgrading the hubs to the client workstations is all that's needed - is the NIC in the Linux box 10 or 100Mb/sec?