<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Dan Kegel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dank@kegel.com">dank@kegel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Joel Witherspoon<br>
<<a href="mailto:joel.witherspoon@gmail.com">joel.witherspoon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> We've saved money in some our classrooms through the use of N-computing<br>
> boxes (<a href="http://www.ncomputing.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ncomputing.com/</a>). If you are going to have pods (four or<br>
> more) computers in each classroom, you are looking at spending about $2000<br>
> per room. With the Ncomputing box, you buy one computer and the Ncomputing<br>
> kit and three or five monitors for about $1000 per room.<br>
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</div>That's sweet. Have you had any performance or compatibility problems?<br>
What boxes did you buy?<br>
What is the login experience like?<br>
</blockquote></div><br> We purchased the 300 box (host workstation and three terminals) which allowed one host with four monitors and N-boxes as an educational center in the classroom. The 500 series was debuted at Tech Ed this year. If budget allows, we will begin to purchase them.<br>
<br>We didn't have computer issues per se, just network issues. The jacks on the N-boxes and the PCI card are RJ-45 so you can plug them into a wall jack, but the traffic will have to route correctly in order for the systems to work. Originally we had it set up this way. We had to create separate networks for each classroom (with atomic EIGRP routing numbers) in order to work properly. This setup is not recommended as it creates a huge routing table with poison routes if a computer goes down. I would suggest buying one small switch (Netgear $30) for each classroom and switching the N-box PCI card with that. Let the host computer handle the network traffic (enable QOS control on the configuration for the card) and it will work well.<br>
<br>The login experience is just like logging into to Windows or Ubuntu (I had one classroom try Edubuntu for a month -- that's another story). We are a Novell shop, and we logged into Novell with no problem. The system runs extremely similar to or vty with a GUI. If you understand how TTY/VTY runs, working with these boxes is simple.<br>
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