Friday, May 29, 2015


Why students should have a school network to manage


A network is a bunch of connected computers and devices that can communicate and gather information from other places. An example of a small network is the router you connect to in your house for internet. In most houses the routers are used to connect to the internet. but in some people houses there is a medium sized network like we have in our schools. This network is when you connect computers to computers and computers to routers to advertized different servers and web pages within the network but still have a connection to the internet. an example of a large network is the united states internet. where it spans the home united states. but it's still not the biggest network the biggest network spans every part of the industrialized world and is communicating and hosting the world markets.


Networks being one of the most influential parts of life today students should have an understanding on how to manage and run a network. This would also help the school with all the internet problems in the school if the students had their own network then when a teacher has a problem with showing us a web page in the internet we could use the other network to bypass some of the slowdowns in the schools network. one of these slowdowns being trafic. another slowdown looks like it is forced on devices which is actual limits in the connection speed. at school the fastest connection I have goten is  31 mbps well at home I get over 250 mbps. being the only wireless device connecting to both routers that I know of. Checking now (9:01 May 29) I also see miss use of channels. The router that i'm connecting to is reporting that out of the 8 channels that it is broadcasting 3 are being used. Another thing this could lead to is a class where students make web pages and create an intranet for the school to post and gather information about the students. Eventually this network could piggyback off of the district's website to broadcast different web pages as students.

That is just some of the vast possibilities that could come out of a student network at our school.           

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