W-days

Door count over a thousand again. Part of it was due to a class of adult students learning English. It's a regular event every term, their teacher brings them to the library, they fill out forms to get library cards, ask us questions in broken, accented English and write down the answers for an assignment. Then they all check out videos (rarely any books) and leave, usually ten or fifteen minutes after the normal closing time. This term's class was larger than usual, over 30 of them, so we were very busy for an hour or so.

Got my bandwidth controls, in the form of queueing disciplines, loaded into that new server (that's now getting old, after a month of tinkering with it.) Then I downloaded the latest version of Limewire, and tomorrow while the library is closed I'll test my theory of what our bandwidth issues really are by downloading some motion picture while monitoring bandwidth usage and the impact on normal network operation. By isolating our problem users (those with laptop computers) on their own subnet and running all their traffic, both up and down, through a single node point, I believe I can control the upload and download speed fairly well.Tomorrow will tell.

Cooler today but it didn't rain as predicted. The clouds looked threatening in the afternoon, but nothing happened.

And so, to bed