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PAGE 4 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, February 16,2000 Catholic students face a slow trip on information highway BY JENNIFER STONE Staff Writer Students in Bowmanville and Cobourg arc finding the trip on the information superhighway superhighway a little slow going, say Catholic school board officials. officials. While schools in Peterborough Peterborough arc connecting to the the Internet at 500 kilobytes per second, schools in Clar- ington and Cobourg have a much slower 128 kilobyte per second connection. The only way to solve the problem is for utility companies such as Bell Canada to increase the available bandwidth, trustees were told Tuesday. But that's unlikely in the immediate future because Bowmanville and Cobourg "have very little industry and as such very little demand for increased bandwidth," said Marie Howran, manager of 'computer services with the Peterborough, Victoria, Northumberland and Clar- ington District Catholic School Board. "The problem in those two areas is one of resource," she explained. Tire board began bringing schools on-line in 1997, piloting piloting a Wide Area Network at St. Mary's Secondary in Cobourg and St. Stephen's Secondary in Bowmanville, as well as in schools in Peterborough, Peterborough, Campbell ford and Lindsay. Tbc network connected connected the schools to each other and to the board's office in Peterborough. Now, all schools in the board are on-line, and training training for staff has been completed completed at all schools except Notre Dame Elementary in Cobourg. The training has been scheduled for this month. But schools in Bowmanville Bowmanville and Cobourg arc finding the connection to the Net isn't as efficient as it could be. For example, at St. Stephen's, where there arc over 300 computers, "we can really only get 35 computers simultaneously accessing the Internet effectively at one time," says Mrs. Howran. Any more than that, and it can take "sometimes three to four minutes to change (web) pages." Though the board will continue to lobby utility companies companies to increase bandwidth to the two mens, they still must find a way to deal with the problem in the interim, said Joanne Hough, superintendent superintendent of schools. One idea is to ensure. only a limited number of students arc accessing accessing tbc Net at any one time, she said. PUBLIC NOTICE Refrigerators • 18 cubic ft. • Frost Free • Adjustable Shelves • Freezer Shelf • Reversible Door $569°° *Applianci > s may not be exactly «is shown J.R. MILLS Appliances 125 King St. East, Bowmanville 697-1240 I MON-WED 9-6 FREE DELIVERY! THURS - FRI 9-8 SAT 9-5 Oshawa's Largest International PSYCHIC FAIR READERS BOOKS CRYSTALS FREE LECTURES AND DEMOS Friday: 12-10pm Saturday: 11-10pm Sunday: 11-7pm Admission $6 GOOD ALL WEEKEND February 18,19,20 Kinsmen Club 109 Colborne St. W. 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