On 2 August 2012 21:06, Jerry Vonau <jvo...@shaw.ca> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 09:53 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: >> Do you have any form of proxy? A local transparent proxy would mean >> 400 XOs still only download 800Kb over the link. There's lots of ways >> to skin a cat. >> > > We have no control over the network environment what so ever and need to > work within the confines of what is available.
This is our primary constraint: we cannot install servers or proxies. Schools in remote areas have latent/slow/expensive Internet links. You'd think that a caching proxy is common sense. Unfortunately not :( Furthermore, the newer wireless networks treat every client as potentially hostile and hence prevent them from communicating with each other. This also means that no collaboration can take place. Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Engineering Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au A: G.P.O. Box 731 Sydney, NSW 2001 W: www.laptop.org.au _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel