Wi-Fi 

The Trouble With Wi-fi? Lauren & Jesse During the 2012-13 Santa Barbara District school year, the internet was disturbingly slow, and crashed daily, requiring Plans A, B, C in the classroom.

It started with old technology—hardware purchased from Vandenberg 20 years ago that was dying by the day. Every time a new piece was introduced into the system (server, router, hub, etc.) the system would choke and Cox and the district would spend hours troubleshooting. It's eight minutes long, but fascinating how cumbersome the system was (and still kind of is).

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Source: Todd Ryckman, SBSD Director of Technology. Used without permission. __SB District- //The Big Picture//:__ PROBLEM- Bottlenecking of Data: 8.8GBs of Data traveling through a 500MB pipe to district office. SOLUTION- make pipe size appropriate for what you're doing with it. PROBLEM- Chain Reaction of Data Errors: loop at a site causing slowness for the entire district. SOLUTION- modify gig connection to network  PROBLEM- Shite just wont work! SOLUTION- Get a new computer! Preferably a MAC. Because PCs are Pretty Crappy.

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