traffic to/from a workstation

[nigel barker <tech@hiroshima-is.ac.jp>]

Dear All
Thanks for always giving me good advice. I haven't had time to further 
investigate printing - just put on hold for now.

I was wondering about the amount of traffic to and from a workstation. 
We have a "temporary" building (ie. permanent but cheap) which is 
connected to the main building by a wireless link which sometimes drops 
packets, depending on the weather or whether we really need it to work 
well or not that day. Skolelinux workstations in that building are very 
slow compared to identical machines in the main building. This is 
because they are constantly shuffling data to tjener, right?
Is there something I can do about it? eg. stop some services.

Standalone computers over there (win and lin) are fine - sometimes the 
internet is a bit slow, and sometimes it takes a while to save a file to 
tjener (via samba), but basically the machine is responsive, unlike the 
workstations.

thanks
nigel