School Internet Connection

Assignment 6

If you were hired by the university president as an IT consultant, what would you suggest (technology, infrastructure, innovations, steps, processes, etc) in order for the internet connectivity be improved?

Internet connection….

Internet connection nowadays is somehow important. Internet had become essential part of any organization, may it be educational institution or business organization. It has been part of our everyday life. Especially in schools, where internet helped in a great way in easing the problems of homeworks, researches and so on. Having a stable internet connection is essential for it to cater to the needs of the user. Through, internet connection information may gather easily and disseminate easily as well. Internet is a global computer network that links computer networks all over the world by satellite and telephone, connecting users with service networks such as e-mail and the World Wide Web. It is a medium where exchanging of information is possible, can use to explore new things, search different ideas, discover things easily, see different concepts, open up issues, and even allow you to experience travel in different places in just one click.
It is also use for communication and even entertainment. There are a lot of things to do over the internet, even businesses, organizations and schools uses internet and get benefits from it to continue the work and allows advance opportunity.


As a consultant…

As a consultant, there are things need to consider in giving suggestion and recommendation. Considering on the current situation in the university’s internet connection an intricate issue to be discuss.

I would suggest first thing is to educate the users. Make it simple and go into small detail because we all know that we are in a state university and budget in limited.

To conducting a seminars would be helpful. Most of the students don't know the effects in the connection upon downloading in the Internet. It can reduce the connection speed especially when most of the user is downloading at the same time. Through seminars the student will be educated on this matter. We are already certain about the increased of bandwidth in our school, but it is just a short term solution if the students won’t follow the rules and continue to download everything from the Internet. Another one is by not making use of Internet in school as a source of entertainment. As a student it is inappropriate to the school if you are making any jobs not related to your course. You can make use of the Internet outside of the school if your purpose is to download files from the Internet. Limit the student of video streaming which I believe is already implemented in the school. In addition to these rules could be implemented to further boost the internet connection is at most 2 internet browsers with only 1 tab each should be open at a time. If a student want to video stream or to download something then only 1 browser window should be open at his station. These rules should be implemented with strict compliance to make effective.

By proper orientation of the users, faculty or student, about the proper usage of the Internet or the computer will help to lessen the cause of the problem and if the users are the ones causing the delay, then our efforts would be useless. Proper usage mean so much because no matter how fast or advance the technology your using, it will be useless if the users doesn't use their initiative. Computers are only tools, and we are the users of these tools.

Realistically speaking, imposing such rules and regulations somehow restrict the students to explore more and learn new ideas in the internet. It maybe a good way to increase the speed of the internet connection but at the same time it would put into the line the role of the school in cultivating the student.

Computer viruses are also a problem. One factor that affects the performance of the computer and the Internet connectivity is the virus dilemma. This is something that is also acquired from the Internet. Adequate and appropriate anti-virus software should be installed in all computer units or there could be one unit where removable storage media must be scanned and cleaned of any infections. I noticed that most students do not scan their removable storage media and just use them without hesitation. My suggestion would be to introduce to the users some anti-virus software and encourage them in using that software for their protection. Good and up-to-date anti-virus software would also help make the processes of computer a lot faster. In relation to the virus problems, it would also be practical and wise move to apply the deepfreeze mode on all the units in the laboratory to prevent virus to spread.


Another thing is upgrading the unit in the school. It is important to use high-speed computers in order for our connection to be fast. But since the university lacks the budget to buy new units, it is even more practical to just upgrade the computers. Even by doing it partially and one at a time would be a big help than doing nothing but wait.


Similarly, by using internet connection software that speeds up the pace of the internet that is a effective, easy-to-use program and lacks the power to provide an optimal
Internet connection because of changing, unstable network conditions. But the down side of using accelerators is that the quality of the interface will be decreased. To think of it, it is not a major problem and not a bad option since the concern is to speed up internet
connection.


Caching proxy server. A proxy server can reply to service requests without contacting the specified server, by retrieving content saved from a previous request, made by the same client or even other clients. This is called caching. Caching proxies keep local copies of frequently requested resources, allowing large organizations to significantly reduce their upstream bandwidth usage and cost, while significantly increasing performance


Using Proxy Servers. A proxy server is a kind of buffer between your computer and the Internet resources you are accessing. They accumulate and save files that are most often requested by thousands of Internet users in a special database, called “cache”. Therefore, proxy servers are able to increase the speed of your connection to the Internet. The cache of a proxy server may already contain information you need by the time of your request, making it possible for the proxy to deliver it immediately. The overall increase in performance may be very high. Also, proxy servers can help in cases when some owners of the Internet resources impose some restrictions on users from certain countries or geographical regions. In addition to that,
among proxy servers there are so called anonymous proxy servers that hide your IP address thereby saving you from vulnerabilities concerned with it.



Use network repeaters or routers to regenerate incoming electrical, wireless or optical signals. With physical media like Ethernet or Wi-Fi, data transmissions can only span a
limited distance before the quality of the signal degrades. Repeaters attempt to
preserve signal integrity and extend the distance over which data can safely travel. Routers are specialized computers that send your messages and those of every
other Internet user speeding to their destinations along thousands of pathways. So if we use routers, best path will evidently accelerate internet speed. Our school is currently using routers but internet connection was still very low.


Since we are already using fiber-optic cables and UTP cables, we should maintain and maximize the use of these mediums in order for the data to travel faster.

Increasing the bandwidth is also a good solution, but nothing will happen if it is not properly allocated. Applying the idea of properly allocating bandwidth depending on the usage is an alternative solution maybe. With this, probably, the tasks that require the most bandwidth can be properly attended to and the tasks that require the least bandwidth can also be done at the same time.