[Ldsoss] Wireless Networks in Church Buildings

[Ben Galbraith]

On Nov 2, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Mac Newbold wrote:
> The other question we never got a good answer to was when MLS will  
> be able to synchronize with church headquarters over the internet  
> (with a secure SSL connection of course) instead of those lame and  
> slow external modems they pass out. Our MLS would not infrequently  
> sit there for the better part of an hour downloading over the  
> modem, and sometimes fail and have to start all over, saving data  
> at 50kbps when we had a connection 30 times that fast available on  
> the very same computer. Not only would it work a lot faster, but  
> then the Church wouldn't have to maintain a big modem pool, and  
> could just let each unit/stake/fmgroup do their own thing for  
> internet access at whatever speed they needed. Or perhaps the  
> church could even bargain with one of the nationwide providers for  
> a deal for all the relatively low use church sites to get access  
> for less than normal. Who knows. But at least having it available  
> to the sites that have internet access anyway would be great.

FWIW, this is how MLS works today. All MLS does with the modem is  
establish a TCP/IP connection over *the Internet* and then use it to  
access the Church's MLS servers. So if you already have an Internet  
connection, MLS can use it. Contact the MLS support folks to learn  
how to configure this.

Ben

>
> One thing I'm a little curious about is how widespread this  
> practice of installing DSL internet (with or without wireless) in  
> church buildings has become. I was under the impression that our  
> location was a test site in a pilot program (this was probably  
> close to 3 years ago), but since then I've heard of several others  
> that have similar equipment now. How many other stakes, wards, or  
> family history centers have this now? How many of those are in  
> Utah, and how many are elsewhere?
>
> Thanks,
> Mac
>
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> Mac Newbold		MNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC
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