'cos the off peak bandwidth is still bad ... <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 July 2012 15:01, Hutchison, Geoffrey G <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hutchison.geoffrey.g@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">hutchison.geoffrey.g@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt">Think a better analogy is your street is dual lane, with just you on it, but out on the feeder
<span>tollway</span> (!) there are a zillion cars between 9 and 3.30. Outside those hours, very few cars on the tollway or local street.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt">Which begs the question, Mark: why aren't your techies doing their downloads outside of school hours?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:10pt"> <a href="mailto:yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark KELLY<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 18 July 2012 2:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] U2O1- suggestions for next task with slow internet?</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM:12pt" class="MsoNormal">Yes, the department gives us a 100Mbps pipeline, and our service provider gives us a trickle of data along it.<br>
It's like being given a new 8 lane freeway and a mule to use on it. <br>
We alleviate things by having an ADSL connection to a 'real' ISP for the techies to use for their BIG data transfers...<br>
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It's a shame that many of these good data sources can't be downloaded or even cached.
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Maybe try to find a data source which you can store locally?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 18 July 2012 12:45, Esther Andrews <<a href="mailto:ANDREWS.Esther@bssc.edu.au" target="_blank">ANDREWS.Esther@bssc.edu.au</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-AU">Our school joined the Department’s internet portal (terminology?) at the start of this year. I am finding it is too slow for students to do
research. This Outcome 1 requires students to “select appropriate sources of data and identify relevant data”. Last year I gave them a list of websites that contained a range of datasets and asked them to select their data. Our web access is so slow I don’t
think I can do that this year.</span><span lang="EN-AU"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-AU">Has slow web access been an issue for any of you in government schools?</span><span lang="EN-AU"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-AU">If so, how are you addressing this? Are you providing the students with the datasets?</span><span lang="EN-AU"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-AU">(I really don’t want to do this, but the situation here is intolerable!!)</span><span lang="EN-AU"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-AU">Thanks,</span><span lang="EN-AU"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri','sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt" lang="EN-AU">Esther</span><span lang="EN-AU"></span></p>
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Mark Kelly<br></p></div></div><br></div><br></blockquote></div>-- <br>Mark Kelly<br>Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area<br>McKinnon Secondary College<br>McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia<br>Direct line / Voicemail: +613 8520 9085, Fax +613 9578 9253<br>
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