In their most recent webinar, Skyport Systems explores ways to isolate and protect critical databases to keep the core of your company safe from harm.
Solved
School chromebook bandwidth problem
Posted on 2016-07-26
Hi there - we are a small school and have recently purchased 30 chromebooks. We have a wifi network with access points in each classroom. We also have a suite of laptops that happily all connect to the internet at the same time. With the chromebooks, as soon as more than 6 or 7 are turned on, the bandwidth collapses - I have tested it using iplayer and streaming radio but it ends up saying you are not connected to the internet or not enough bandwidth. I have spoken to a few people and they commented that there are certain tweaks for classroom chromebooks - I just can't seem to find them! Any help gratefully received
[X]
Welcome to Experts Exchange
Add your voice to the tech community where 5M+ people just like you are talking about what matters.
- Help others & share knowledge
- Earn cash & points
- Learn & ask questions
2
- +1
5 Comments
Seems like Chromebooks are Bandwidth Hogs, but there is some ways around it. Starting at this site for instance can cut down on some bandwidth.
http://www.guidingtech.com/51813/optimize-internet-bandwidth-chromebook/
Most likely though it's about latency. Here is another quick Google website that should give you a lot more information and help some.
https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/3339263?hl=en
http://www.guidingtech.com/51813/optimize-internet-bandwidth-chromebook/
Most likely though it's about latency. Here is another quick Google website that should give you a lot more information and help some.
https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/3339263?hl=en
Google Chrome itself is and always has been a pig. You can go into the settings and turn off any addons/mods to help reduce the latency but overall I have seen chrome drain systems of their resources
Active today
It appears that Chromebooks do everything in the 'cloud' which means over the network and internet. http://www.google.com/chromebook/about/
Yeah, they're probably constantly uploading and backing up everything like history, downloads, pictures, etc. There's a way to turn it off, just use offline resources like Drive, etc.
Sorry for delay in posting. Went into school and checked the wifi settings against some of these sites...it was set to 2.4Ghz - upped it to 5Ghz. Started up the chromebooks and got 9 going before the connection died - phoned the broadband provider and they confirmed that we maxed out on our 10mb connection - they confirmed that the issue is bandwidth into the school. I shall go back to the schools broadband provider and see if they can improve the connection in any way. Thanks all for your time and advice
Featured Post
Question has a verified solution.
If you are experiencing a similar issue, please ask a related question
Chrome has recently been open sourced by Google as a developer preview. Its very young, clearly has some issues and needs serious work, however it is usable and lots of people have managed to get it running in a virtual machine or via a USB key.
…
When I'm searching for answers on Experts Exchange, I often use Google because it's built into my browser. To search only on Experts Exchange, I use the "site:" search operator, which can be cumbersome to type out each time I want to run a search. …
The purpose of this video series is to go through the basics of Google Analytics. This is the first video in the three part series. This tutorial goes through the setup as well as the Overview tab with in the application.
Make sure that your Google …
This Micro Tutorial will demonstrate how to updated your Facebook updates after changing anything in the title or description of a shared article.
Suggested Courses
Course of the Month6 days, 2 hours left to enroll
688 members asked questions and received personalized solutions in the past 7 days.
Join the community of 500,000 technology professionals and ask your questions.