RE: Broken Internet for school, all financed by our money

From: Irshaad Abdool <irshaad_abd_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:10:04 +0400

Hi Logan;
I back your idea on that.
At my high-school, we have our own Internet connection that gave us (admin) freedom on almost everything and had the compound-wide WiFi setup - primarily for teachers to use our ERP system and Weekly plan stuffs.
At another branch of our school in the south, the connection is proxy-ed through the Government servers causing a lagging connection at times plus a cumbersome scaling of computer labs or infrastructures due to the IP allocations and DNS stuffs on individual machines.
Regards

M Irshaad Abdoolwww.irshaad.me | www.blog.irshaad.mefacebook.com/abdoolirshaad

> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:53:27 +0000
> Subject: Broken Internet for school, all financed by our money
> From: loganaden_at_gmail.com
> To: mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com
>
> Dear All,
>
> Back when I was a student in high school, we went through the
> conversion of our Internet Connection to the Government's IT Internet.
>
> Back when I was a student, we realised that it was more about
> political motivation than technical motivation.
>
> -Porn sites were blocked.
> (You could work your way around, with a very clever tricks).
>
> -Inability to get DHCP on Linux machines. The was a problem with their
> DHCP server. (I'm not sure if it's fixed now)
>
> -Crippled internet.
>
> No access to CVS, SVN, git protocol (git://...), and services like IMs.
>
> Let me try to explain it, you could still connect to IM, but then, it
> would try to do that through some proxy, which made your messages slow
> to travel.
>
> College Du St Esprit, at my urging, moved back to a standard ADSL line
> to provide a better learning environment.
>
> I don't believe that the school IT project favours growth of high
> school student who are limited to educational websites. Students need
> to get their hands dirty. Downloading code, through SCM, forwarding
> port to their machines, and allow others to test their webservers.
> Back then, it played a huge part in knowing how networking works in
> practice.
>
> Here is what I think would have really helped (and a better investment
> of taxpayer's money).
>
> -Subsidised Internet Connection to schools in Mauritius, allowing more
> schools to get internet via ADSL, and get static IPs.
>
> -Setting up an educational peering exchange points for Educational environments.
>
> -Wide coverage of wifi on the school compounds. This would have solved
> the internet-to-tablet problem.
>
> Kind regards,
> //Logan
> C-x-C-c
>
>
>
>
> --
> This message is strictly personal and the opinions expressed do not
> represent those of my employers, either past or present.
>
                                               
Received on Mon Mar 16 2015 - 14:10:23 PST