The John Paul College network is almost completely wireless. Exceptions to this include staff, desktop computers in the primary school and senior school, all being connected by CAT5 cable. The wireless network reaches all parts of the college campus from the Coleman Centre to Sick Bay to the JPIC. (Refer to Appendix A)

The current data transfer rate present throughout the campus is 11Mbps (MegaBits Per Second). A typical installation would have a wireless access point connected to a classroom network point, usually mounted upon a wall near the roof of the room. Currently the school employs two types of wireless connections points, one for 64 persons and more recently, 128 person wireless access points. Each portable computer that wishes to connect to

To overcome the problems faced by the wireless network, a computer lab should be installed in the senior school to be used by students who study in the fields of IT. With this the rest of the college students will be able to use the wireless network as it will suffice their needs adequately. The labs will allow the IT students to work quicker due to the improvement of speed and would be considerably more reliable as we know desktop are much more reliant. The lab would run with 10/100 Ethernet Cards, nearly ten times quicker than the current wireless network. All the desktop computers shall be physically linked through a switch.

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