Reconfiguring the wifi network in the parish

Right now the parish has 10 routers. However, the bandwidth provided by these routers is very low. Since everything is connected ad hoc, so I had to rewire and reconfigure them to make them more efficient. Although the internet works now, the current configuration is only a temporary solution and not very efficient. 

One of the fixes I performed today was replacing an old router with a newer one. The change definitely helped since before, the old Belkin router linked the main router to 3 other access points. Since the router was old, IP packets could not pass quickly through these access points no matter how they were reconfigured. Therefore, once this bottleneck was fixed, the internet ran much faster, reaching the speed of 1.5 Mbps for download instead of the previous 0.12, a humongous improvement.

Testing out a new router

Replacing the old router with a new one

 I then instructed Johnny on a possible future plan to execute when the parish got more supplies. This plan would definitely sustain a large amount of missionaries using the internet at the same time. By giving the missionaries 3 access points, the parish would be able to maintain relatively fast internet speeds while having a lot of missionaries (about 60 missionaries; 20 connections per router. These older routers can't handle more than 20 connections before crashing) using the wifi for any purpose.

Instructing Johnny on how to link the routers together with proper subnet-ing each router as access point

Partial diagram of linked routers with a unmanaged switch

Star configuration from the main router

 Finally, I configured the routers for the clinic so that the nurses and doctors could use it consistently without any issues. Although they are linked to the main routers, they still need to be routinely reset so that they are not overloaded with the amount of users that use them. Hopefully, these routers will now work regularly and facilitate the doctors' work!

Reseting "SantisimoClinica" router to factory default settings.

Reconfiguring "SantisimoClinica"

Fixing and testing the wifi in the enfermeria.

Finally, I walked around looking for computers with a defective ip address that was issued by the Trendnet router. Since this router is used mainly by administrators, giving the administrators a static ip address would be a temporary fix until new equipment is brought in!! Nevertheless, the internet works fantastic now, and I'm sure the internet at the school will function just as well, if not better.

Power cycle the access point in the secretaria office.

Speed testing the network connection using Speedtest.net application and servers from Lima. We are getting close to 1.5 Mbps download bandwidth instead of the previous 0.12 Mbps.