Tuesday, February 10, 2009

T1 and ADSL

I am a new IT Director at a k8 school. I come from the teaching side of things and will slowly be
picking up on the technical.

We currently have a T1 line for 300 students. When a class runs certain online applications (online
typing, Voicethread...) the network slows to a frustrating speed. It has been suggested that we
continue to use our T1 line for outgoing traffic (e-mail, FileMaker remote access...) and add an ADSL
line to handle all incoming web.

2 questions:
Should I be experiencing this slowdown with a T1 line?
Is the proposed addition of an ADSL line a good cure?

Thank you for your time,

Rob Thomson
IT Director
Montcrest School
Toronto, ON
rob_thomson@montcrest.on.ca

[ For info on ISED-L see http://www.gds.org/ISED-L ]
Submissions to ISED-L are released under a creative commons, attribution, non-commercial, share-alike license.
RSS Feed, http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?RSS&L=ISED-L