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4. Wireless and Free – one community school provides a ‘wireless’
network access that is ‘transmitted’ from the school across an
area that extends 2 klms from it’s the school. While this does not
sound like a great distance, it means in fact that the school is able
to provide a ‘free’ wireless internet access to over 90% of its
students who live in a housing estate surrounding the community
school. Essentially, students can take home their school laptop
computers and ‘log’ on to the school’s central server from their
apartment’s living rooms (some interference is experienced in
enclosed rooms like inner bedrooms). As a result students can
work from their ‘P’ Drive (their ‘personal drive’ on the schools
server) and can upload and download such things as assignments,
teacher’s lectures, homework and information from the internet
and intranet.

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