[Ww-snww-regional-list] fiber bake off

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Thu Mar 19 13:59:31 EDT 2015


At Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:06:02 -0400 "David Young" <coordinator at town.warwick.ma.us> wrote:

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> Content-Language: en-us
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> I think it would be important to know what the CWMars "buy" is at Wendell
> library. Is 5 Mbps in Warwick so patron's use the Warwick Broadband wireless
> connection which runs at 10 - 13.

Most of the Wendell Free Library's workstatons (8 of 10) use the town's CAI
connection, which is 20Mbits, shared with the other town buildings in the
center: Senior Center, Town Hall, Police Station, Town Office Building, and
Fire Station/Highway Garage -- on a typical *Saturday* none of these other
buildings are using much bandwidth (the Town Office Building and Police
Station are the only other buildings with an actual LAN and fixed
workstations/PCs -- the other buildings just have wireless routers -- the Fire
Chief and the Highway Boss just have laptops). We have *one* CAI connection at
the Police Station, put in by Access Plus, which is shared with the other
buildings wirelessly (except the town hall has a fiber drop, since it is right
next to the Police Station). Access Plus has antennas on the roof of the
Police Station for their Country Roads service, which also uses bandwidth off
the MBI fiber.

The CWMars 5 Mbps connection at the Wendell Free Library is *only* used by the
circulation desk and one 'back office' workstation (backup for the circulation
desk and for cataloging work). That is, the CWMars connection is only used 
by Evergreen (the library system circulation and catalog software). (Those two 
workstation do use the CWMars 5 Mbps connection for general Internet access, 
but that is pretty much limited to 'support' functions, like doing lookups on 
Amazon to verify title and author spellings and such.)

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> We have 20 Mbps Axia fiber at Warwick Town hall, 10 Mbps WBS wireless, and
> I'd love to get a temporary Hughes set up and let folks shake and bake. The
> latency of the fiber makes a smaller pipe seem fast but to really experience
> fiber the comparison should be with a 20 or greater fiber connection.
> 
> David Young
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> Administrative Coordinator Town of Warwick
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> 978-729-3224
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> www.wireless.town.warwick.ma.us
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> From: ww-snww-regional-list
> [mailto:ww-snww-regional-list-bounces at deepsoft.com] On Behalf Of Paul
> Richmond
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 12:24 PM
> To: Robert Heller
> Cc: ww-snww-regional-list at deepsoft.com
> Subject: Re: [Ww-snww-regional-list] Random 'demo' thought...
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> Could also use Google hangout
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> On Mar 19, 2015, at 11:54 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
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> The Wendell Free Library has high speed Internet (over the MBI fiber),
> laptops
> with Skype installed, and an A/V system. I don't know what the Shutesbury
> Elementry School has (I presume it at least has a high-speed connection via
> the MBI).  Would there be any possibility of setting up a Skype connection 
> between the Wendell Free Library and the Shutesbury Elementry School on 
> Saturday the 28th?  If for no other reason to demostrate the video 
> conferencing possibilities of high speed Internet.
> 

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