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Installing Add-ons

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by cmccraig

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Our school district is currently training and reviewing the MarcoPolo web site. We meet the minimum hardware requirement but to fully utilize the sites we are told we will need several add on application like Shockwave, Realaudio, Quicktime, and Flash. What impact, if any, would this have on our workstations, and our network, if we were to install these on our workstations?

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by dmiles

These add-ons will have minimum effect on the system or network itself meaning it does not require a large amount of disk space
It will basically support 3D viewing,graphics,audio and audio streaming

by timthetoolman

Hi,

As soulrider mentioned, very little impact on the machines themselves, but there could be an impact on your network when they start to be used.

Audio and Video over the internet is very bandwidth hungry. You may find that your internet connection is absolutely hammered if many people want to watch streaming video off that website at once!

Consider adding a proxy server with plenty of cache to reduce the amount of actual internet traffic.

Cheers,
Tim.

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