New Fiber Internet Connection
02-22-2008 | 01:46 PM
#1
New Fiber Internet Connection
Calling all geeks/techies...
I work for a small elementary school district in the Bay Area, California. We had been getting our connection to the Internet through a sister district via a T1 line. We had finally become over capacity for that line this year, and things started to and stayed crawling. We planned to do a large infastructure upgrade this school year by linking all our sites via gigabit fiber. We successfully completed that in December, woot!
Shortly after, a guy from the Internet Systems Consortium in Palo Alto donated a fiber connection to the 'net to us. Alright, cool! We get the link set up, and then we test...
I plug a gigabit switch into the fiber, then plug my MacBook into the switch. I give it a public IP and run a speed test. Holy crap, 250 megabits up and down!!! And it's all free!!! To top it off, we were given tons of public IP addresses...4 class C's!
Unfortunately, our PIX only has 100 megabit interfaces, so we are currently limited by that. We'll upgrade our PIX in the future. So with the PIX, we get roughly 90-95 megabits of real-world throughput. This is more than 50x faster than our T1 was (1.5 megabits up and down), so we're satisfied.
A speed test done at http://netspeed.stanford.edu:
Upload speeds vary from test to test. We're not 100% sure why yet but it's nothing critical.
I know this is nothing new, but I just had to share.
I work for a small elementary school district in the Bay Area, California. We had been getting our connection to the Internet through a sister district via a T1 line. We had finally become over capacity for that line this year, and things started to and stayed crawling. We planned to do a large infastructure upgrade this school year by linking all our sites via gigabit fiber. We successfully completed that in December, woot!
Shortly after, a guy from the Internet Systems Consortium in Palo Alto donated a fiber connection to the 'net to us. Alright, cool! We get the link set up, and then we test...
I plug a gigabit switch into the fiber, then plug my MacBook into the switch. I give it a public IP and run a speed test. Holy crap, 250 megabits up and down!!! And it's all free!!! To top it off, we were given tons of public IP addresses...4 class C's!
Unfortunately, our PIX only has 100 megabit interfaces, so we are currently limited by that. We'll upgrade our PIX in the future. So with the PIX, we get roughly 90-95 megabits of real-world throughput. This is more than 50x faster than our T1 was (1.5 megabits up and down), so we're satisfied.
A speed test done at http://netspeed.stanford.edu:
Upload speeds vary from test to test. We're not 100% sure why yet but it's nothing critical.
I know this is nothing new, but I just had to share.
i guess?
02-22-2008 | 02:04 PM
#7
it's me, Alan Rickman.
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From: noitacol
Very nice; i'd like to get FTTP/H or have Comcast up their speed to 20MB down, but eh.. It seems that only Charter goes that high w/ cable speeds.
I worked for a district last year; their connection was pretty nuts
Primary internet was 150mbps
Backup / redundant was 40mbps
100mb fiber to each school site
1gb fiber between school sites on same parcel of land
Microwave connections for redundancy at major sites to district office
and they're working on putting in dark fiber..
I worked for a district last year; their connection was pretty nuts
Primary internet was 150mbps
Backup / redundant was 40mbps
100mb fiber to each school site
1gb fiber between school sites on same parcel of land
Microwave connections for redundancy at major sites to district office
and they're working on putting in dark fiber..
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02-22-2008 | 02:42 PM
#10
Originally Posted by Gilgamesh
Double post?
Mods: you can delete the post I made titled "New Fast Internet Connection".
Sorry!
02-22-2008 | 02:51 PM
#11
We've changed a lot since August! In August, we had our T-1 line out to the 'net, then T-1 lines linking our sites together. Going from that to gigabit fiber between sites and potentially gigabit fiber to the 'net (once equipment is upgraded)...it's worlds apart!
You should've seen the look on my and my co-workers face when I downloaded the Ubuntu 7.10 desktop ISO in about a minute. Lost of laughing and "are you ****ing kidding me?!"
I'm very thankful for the job that I have and that I get to play a big part in the "nitty gritty" of technology in education.
You should've seen the look on my and my co-workers face when I downloaded the Ubuntu 7.10 desktop ISO in about a minute. Lost of laughing and "are you ****ing kidding me?!"
I'm very thankful for the job that I have and that I get to play a big part in the "nitty gritty" of technology in education.
THIEF!
02-22-2008 | 03:27 PM
#13
Safety Car
Joined: Aug 2002
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From: SLC, UT
Originally Posted by thunder04
Oops! I'm sorry about that. When I made my original post, my browser hung after clicking submit. I checked to see if my post had submitted and I didn't see it. I guess I was wrong!
Mods: you can delete the post I made titled "New Fast Internet Connection".
Sorry!
Mods: you can delete the post I made titled "New Fast Internet Connection".
Sorry!
Just breakin' some balls.
02-22-2008 | 07:42 PM
#18
Originally Posted by endo022
time to load up on the torrents
My uncle uses AOL dial-up to this day. We've tried to convince him to move to some form of broadband, or AT LEAST switch to a cheaper no-nonsense dial-up provider.
We re-organized the MDF yesterday to physically represent the flow of traffic. I'll have to take pictures of it on Monday to show our little set-up. For a 4 site district (4 schools, the district office shares the site of one school), I think it's not a bad little setup.
Mmmm...cookies.
i thought that was a typo on your part
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