<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Richard Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smithbone@gmail.com" target="_blank">smithbone@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Perhaps Adam can give us an idea of the situation at the deployments in Haiti.<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">20 XO-1s is the typical starter school we set up in Haiti, many simultaneously trying to access Internet-in-a-Box with XSCE, almost but not quite succeeding :-)<br>
<br>The challenge is that several schools (hope) to expand their XO count dramatically this coming year. Of course server strength, networking/electrical infra is across the map given Haiti's schools are almost all unique creatures w/o govt support. Depending on a couple hours of electricity per day, broken inverters/solar/charge controlers/batteries, legacy wiring, cement/tin physical architecture, voodoo finances/donations on a good day, etc.<br>
<br>One Haiti school began with 100 XO-1.75s but currently only ~50 are operating, not quite ready for IIAB/XSCE until we have stronger guarantees this will run reliably across a larger number of XOs.<br><br>Hence the "universal request" for a $200-300 IIAB server+Wifi that will serve a small school or large classroom. Luckily we don't have 100-150 kids in Haiti classrooms! As some very unfortunate countries attempt.<br>
<br>I very rarely see more than 30-40 kids in a Haiti classroom -- that would be a really great scalability target for this year if we're so lucky (first+foremost understanding which IIAB usage patterns damage others' throughput to better warn our kids!)<br>
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