To get 5 laptops connected
Posted: August 24, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Education, ICT Leave a comment »
(photo from http://micn.otago.ac.nz)
This is a story of how my colleagues and I got 5 laptops connected to the Internet at a “leading edge teaching facility”.
I’m helping a colleague with a class where 5 groups of students will be experimenting with a web-based, in-house developed computer simulation using 5 laptops. Obviously, we needed to connect the laptops to the Internet. The wireless network at this teaching facility was too unstable (we tested) to work with this resource-heavy simulation. OK, so we opted to use the 16 LAN points in each classroom.
Alas, the only LAN points that are currently activated are the ones behind the teacher’s desktop. To activate the other LAN points, we would have to fill in a form, wait for the points to get activated (up to 2 weeks), and pay $17.10 per point.
I admit we could have started the process earlier (we were going to rely on the wireless network, but well…), but I doubt many teachers are willing to go through this process daily.
