<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Mike Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:curiouslee@gmail.com">curiouslee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I can go buy the 5 and 8 port models tonight to try. If one of these works, then we'll at least have a basis for moving forward in the classroom. So far, I don't think we have any confirmed working devices.<br><br> As I said in another email, I've tested the Linksys 5-port Workgroup Switch with no luck.<br><font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>Is there any reason to suspect the hardware? If it works over wireless or the internet, perhaps this is a software issue. <br> <br>Dave<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><font color="#888888">Mike<br><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu" target="_blank">bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> </div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div>Caroline Meeks wrote:<br> > One piece of this will be creating a cluster in the hallway, that<br> > collaborates locally but does not have internet access. I've yet to get<br> > this to work. We need to translate from discussions of network segments to<br> > very practical discussion of what specific model numbers can you buy at the<br> > store and it will work for X number of computers.<br> <br> </div>You should be able to use any "switch" with as many ports as you have<br> computers. For example:<br> 5 ports:<br> <a href="http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0257750" target="_blank">http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0257750</a><br> 8 ports:<br> <a href="http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0294506" target="_blank">http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0294506</a><br> 16 ports:<br> <a href="http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0282106" target="_blank">http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0282106</a><br> <br> (The Microcenter in Cambridge happens to be my usual place to buy this<br> sort of electronics.)<br> <br> All you should need is a switch like that, and one standard ethernet cable<br> for each computer. If you have a very large number of machines, you can<br> start connecting multiple switches together, but this sounds unlikely to<br> be necessary for your purposes.<br> <br> --Ben<br> <br> <br></div></div><div class="im">_______________________________________________<br> Sugar-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> <br></div></blockquote></div><br> <br>_______________________________________________<br> Sugar-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dave Bauer<br><a href="mailto:dave@solutiongrove.com">dave@solutiongrove.com</a><br><a href="http://www.solutiongrove.com">http://www.solutiongrove.com</a><br><br><br>