[Ldsoss] Wireless Networks in Church Buildings

[Paul Penrod]

Ben Galbraith wrote:
> 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
>
Yep, PPP at V.56 speeds (33.6 up / 56.7k down on a "good" connection).
It doesn't matter what the size of the pipe is, so long as the
programmers did
not make the mistake of tying the application to directly to a specific
protocol.

Even if they did, one could run PPPoE via DSL. Grossly inefficient on
the network
but it does provide backward compatibility.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> Mac Newbold        MNE - Mac Newbold Enterprises, LLC
>> mac at macnewbold.com    http://www.macnewbold.com/
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