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Eight data drops in a room doesn't mean that the district will make them
hot. That is the school's responsibility. Also, the district can't
support all kinds of hardware. I hope that the district will supply ports
for the five to one ratio of students to computers. But, there is no way
that the district can supply ports equal to eight times the number of
classrooms. At Ingraham, that would be about 480 ports.
-Wes
wfelty@gte.net
At 10:13 AM 12/03/2000 -0800, you wrote:
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>Others have commented on this already, suggesting you get higher end
>equipment, but I'll weigh in here from another perspective. If you're
>working off your classroom teacher (or personal) budget, sure, go ahead
>and get the inexpensive hub. Our school has been supported almost
>exclusively by Netgear 10base T hubs for a couple of years now, with no
>problems. My own classroom has a 16 port hub which connects my 11
>stations to our network and the world. Nine of my machines have only
>10base T NIC's, anyway. Realize that Netgear hubs use one of the ports
>as your uplink, connecting to your lan, so an 8 port hub will connect
>seven machines. Different brands handle this differently, so read the
>fine print on the back of the box. Another reason not to drop a bigger
>chunk of change on this is that the district standard of 8 data drops
>should hit your classroom pretty soon, right? Good luck - Mark
>
>mahlness@halcyon.com
>http://www.earthdaybags.org
>Teacher, grade three at:
>Arbor Heights Elementary School
>http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/
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>Ricardo Vargas wrote:
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>> I am looking to purchase a hub that will allow 8 connections to the
>lan in
>> our classroom. Presently we have only two connections. CompUSA has an
>8 port
>> 10Base T hub for sale at $49.99, made by NetGear.
>>
>> Can anyone comment on this or suggest a hub that can be used in the
>> classroom?
>>
>> Vargas
>> osprey@jps.net
>> Van Asselt Elementary
>> 5 grade Teacher
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