[Server-devel] Samoa Deployment - planned hardware for 30 July 2010

[Martin Langhoff]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Tom Parker <tom at carrott.org> wrote:
> We are going to Samoa for 2 primary school deployments with 50 XO-1.0
> laptops in each school, on 30 July 2010. We've been asked to set up a

Excellent! That sounds very interesting!

> 1 EEE Box EB1012 - 2GB ram, 250GB hard disk, dual core 1.6GHz Atom 330
> 2 Ubiquity Networks NanoStation2 802.11b/g 400mW Outdoor AP/Bridge
> 1 Switch

Very nice gear -- the EEE Box is fanless, and the NanoStation2 looks
reasonably safe for outdoors. Will be very interested in hearing about
your results with that gear.

Hard drive size is ample, processing power and ram are plenty. I think
you are very well geared up! My only comment is that the EEE Box has
only on NIC -- so you'll need to use xs-swapnics to get it on eth1.
And if/when you add an internet uplink, you can use a usb-ethernet
device -- boot with it pluggged and it should get autodetected as
eth0.

> Do we need a gigabit switch?

With 2 APs... no. You'll get 54Mbps x2 as theoretical max, so 100Mbps
at the switch is just fine. Of course you need the switch to be a PoE
source...

cheers,



m
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