<div dir="ltr"><div><div>As RichardS & GeorgeH valiantly get up to speed clocking Internet-in-a-Box bottlenecks on side-by-side school servers like Nepal's MSI DC111 (Celeron 1.8GHz, 2GB RAM) and faster, with many developing world deployments worldwide itching to follow -- who has intuition what they should test/compare first?<br>
<br>While streaming many different Khan Academy videos simultaneously, to many Wifi-connected devices and browser tabs for starters?<br><br></div><div>I can only assume they'll start with a standard HW recipe along the lines of:<br>
</div><ol><li>Install XSCE 5.0 per <a href="http://schoolserver.org">http://schoolserver.org</a> onto a system like Nepal's $275 MSI DC111 or comparable/faster. Cheaper is great if performant!<br></li><li>Copy IIAB (all ~700GB if possible) to that school server's internal HDD using "rsync -a" (too many issues with dd).<br>
</li><li>Curt is helping me distribute a brand-new release of IIAB to testers in coming weeks -- allowing diverse speed tests of Wikipedia's experimental new full-text-search and Open Street Map?<br></li><li>Later/Bonus: are there cases where IIAB on an external USB3 drive is almost as fast as an internal HDD? 2GB RAM as good as 4GB RAM?<br>
</li><li>When the going gets tough evaluating 3rd world deployments' imminent HW/SW choices, compare notes on irc chat channel #schoolserver (<a href="http://webchat.freenode.net">http://webchat.freenode.net</a>)</li>
<li>Scream for real (with joy ;) during our weekly Thursday calls no matter how ugly things get!</li></ol><p>Thanks for bright ideas, any/all! Thousands stand to benefit, and rather quickly. So far, possible early areas of investigation are summarized here:</p>
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