<div dir="ltr">Unless there are clients that are going though the router but are not going through the schoolserver, I think this risks more harm than good.<br><br>Going back to the microprocessor analogy, the Level 2 cache usually is much larger than the Level 1 cache, and only slightly slower. Most community routers using USB sticks will be much slower than a schoolserver, and will not have the RAM to cache anywhere close to the same number of files in memory as the schoolserver, or the storage space of a hard drive.<br>
<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Anish Mangal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anish@activitycentral.com" target="_blank">anish@activitycentral.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I think it was Tony (please correct me if I'm wrong) who pointed out that network capacity in a School Server setup can be a hindrance (esp considering 200 kids, and 20 kids per AP). </div>
<div><br></div><div>This weekend, I attempted to run squid on a TP-Link router. I used a USB drive as a storage medium, and flashed the router with the OpenWRT SECN firmware. The initial results seem quite promising, and I'm going to explore this a bit further. </div>
<div><br></div><div>If anyone's interested in hacking on this or has thoughts/feedback, please chip in :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Drawing a "microprocessor" analogy, having a L1 cache on the XSCE and an L2 cache on the AP, and some smart fine tuning, we could potentially make much more efficient use of the network capacity we have. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This can be REALLY advantageous if someone is planning to use the SECN firmware in the mesh mode (no ethernet cables whatsoever). The AP's wouldn't have to talk to each other as often, if they all have small cache memories embedded in them. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Anish</div></div>
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