Can you tell I’m avoiding work this morning so far? 
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Maybe I’ll use the English/Spanish version to talk to my niece this Christmas.
The topic of wikis has come up repeatedly around work the last couple weeks as possible grant/research opportunities as it relates on online education. My sense is that a lot of work has already been happening in this area, but it was interesting to find some growing alternatives and different plays on the wiki theme.
The Wikimedia Foundation has a lot of projects that are expanding on the idea. One of the more interesting, from my perspective, is the Wikimedia Commons project.
This Compact Weather-Proof Enclosure looks pretty good for housing one of the access points, but I can’t help but think that I could do just as well by using an ordinary outdoor electrical panel type box. I haven’t checked to see what the cost of one of those is. And admittedly I’m running out of time since I need to have something figured out before next weekend when I do the installation.
This is kind of interesting. I was trying to figure out if it made sense to determine available bandwidth based on the response time of ordinary ping requests. Why I’m asking is that I have some ‘data’ from a few tests I did with a wireless link that I’m trying to establish.
How a Slow Link Is Detected for Processing User Profiles and Group Policy
link speed=16000/(average ping for 2048 byte packet)
For example, a 32 ms average round trip time would be considered equivalent to a 500kbit link speed. The following ping command can be used to estimate link speed:
C:\>ping -l 2048 remote-domain-controller.domain.tld
Pinging remote-domain-controller.domain.tld [192.168.0.1] with 2048 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=2048 time=179ms TTL=57
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=2048 time=180ms TTL=57
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=2048 time=179ms TTL=57
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=2048 time=187ms TTL=57
Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 179ms, Maximum = 187ms, Average = 181msThe estimated link speed would be 16000/181=88 kbps.
If valid, going off of this the links looking pretty good.
I don’t know why I never thought of this before. Kismet on the Linksys WRT54G - Rasmus’ Toys Page