Thanks to Covid-19, after all sorts of delays due to multiple reasons AISD finally opened and as expected and known for a long time schools are virtual. To their credit AISD has provided kids with Chromebook and I always presumed Chromebook's are later tech and more like advance tech.
So, it caught me by surprise when the initial introduction to teacher over zoom video for Avni had video quality issues. Sandhya, thought it must be wireless speed issue. My argument was it can't be for we have Orbi Mesh network setup in the house and having tested all corners of the house for the speed and we can guarantee 75-100Mbps pretty much anywhere.
A friend of ours suggested that we can order Wifi-hotspot and they have been using it and no issues with quality. I thought unless Austin has 5G that I am not aware of there is no way the hotspot can be faster than our mesh network.
So, today we did a speed test on Chromebook (something should have done long ago) and turns out connected to the mesh network the speed is highly variable and can be anywhere from 10Mbps to onetime 100Mbps, while connected to our regular Google router it gets a constant 50Mbps over multiple tries.
Made me realize, its a light/flashy OS on a crappy hardware. Granted it boots fast and screen even though good resolution is not bright enough. Thanks to it being managed by AISD I can't even see the hardware specifications of the Chromebook.
So for now solution is to use our inhouse laptop for school from home :)
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