Recommended networking solutions for small-sized Internet cafes (1)

As the Internet cafe enters the rectification period, I believe that the Internet cafe network will be surging in the near future. For Internet cafe owners, it is essential to create the optimal network environment with the lowest cost investment to maximize economic benefits.
Although today's Internet cafes are moving towards large-scale and high-grade development, due to some objective factors, some small-sized Internet cafes with a small area and a small number of machines are still booming in many places, for Internet cafes of this grade, the choice of networking solutions plays a strategic role in their survival. In order to enable owners of Internet cafes of all sizes to achieve better cost control, here, we will advise the internet cafe owners of these specific apartment types.
I. Analysis of the planning object Environment

The configuration scheme of Internet cafes depends on the actual situation. Therefore, before selecting a networking scheme, you should first analyze the application environment. According to the size, Internet cafes are generally divided into large, medium, and small. Generally, the number of hosts with less than 50 are referred to as small-sized Internet cafes. Their main functions are as follows: surfing the Internet and playing games.

Ii. solution Requirements

1. internet cafes are a special environment for network applications. Each work point is browsing, chatting, downloading, VOD, and online games almost continuously at the same time. The data traffic is huge, therefore, ensuring high-speed and smooth network connection without disconnection is the most important task for Internet cafes. Small-sized Internet cafes can simplify functions, but stability and reliability cannot be neglected.

2. the cost of networking for small-sized Internet cafes should be reasonable and should not be too high. The options on devices should reflect the following features: high cost performance, easy to use, convenient management, etc, to ensure performance, there is no need to choose an expensive and fully functional enterprise-level router.

Iii. Optimal Network Technology

In terms of network technology, it is recommended to select the mature fast Ethernet Switching technology. The Ethernet Switching technology will change the shared media of previous network technologies to the exclusive media, thus improving the network speed, at present, the most popular are Mbps Ethernet and Mbps Ethernet. Some large Internet cafes already use Mbps. For small Internet cafes, selecting a Mbps network is enough.

Iv. Optimal Access Mode

At present, there are many Internet access methods provided by carriers, which can be divided into broadband and narrowband access. Broadband mainly includes optical fiber, ADSL, and satellite broadband access, and narrowband access mainly includes DDN and ISDN, each access method has its own advantages and disadvantages. For small-sized Internet cafes, it is ideal to choose ADSL. ADSL has high bandwidth and stability. It can provide high-speed 8 Mbit/S download rate and 1 Mbit/S uplink rate on the existing copper telephone line. No phone signal is used for Internet access, users can call the Internet at the same time without installing another telephone line, and the price is relatively low, so it is more advantageous for Internet cafe owners.

V. Networking Mode

After determining the broadband access mode, we will begin to select the networking mode. Currently, the mainstream is the wired and wireless network modes. If we build a wireless network, although it saves the trouble of wiring, however, the cost is quite high, and the stability and speed are inferior to those of the wired network, which does not meet the networking standards of Internet cafes. Therefore, the wired network is the best choice. For the establishment of a wired network, we can use the ADSL Modem with the routing function and a multi-port switch to achieve ADSL Internet sharing. This method has a low network cost but poor performance, therefore, vrouters and vswitches are used for networking. Although the investment cost is higher, the performance is good.

Vi. Networking Solution

After the access mode and networking mode are determined, the general model of the networking solution is also available. Because the size of small-sized Internet cafes is small, the local hard drive Boot Mode of the client system is generally used, the network can be connected to the INTERNET through an equivalent network, without the server acting as a proxy. Then, the Broadband Router can directly access the adsl mondem. In the M network trunk, use a common switch to connect all clients. The devices in the network are also relatively simple, as long as the ADSL Modem + Broadband Router + switch can be used, if the cost is acceptable, it is recommended to install a hardware firewall, the specific networking line is: INTERNET--ADSL MONDEM-Broadband Router-switch-client, each device through five or more cat5e unshielded twisted pair wires to achieve network interconnection.