internet cafe report
Document Sample
Prepare a report that look at some of the issues
00. Task Outline
involved in setting up and running an internet
café in the greater Brisbane area. Your budget
for the project is $500 000 over 3 years.
The café requires approximately 100 square
metres of floor space (this is twice the size of
C5 computer room)
use the site www.realcommercial.com.au to
find a shop front or office to setup your internet
cafe.
You will need to get a price to lease or
01. Location of the Cafe rent the premises for a year.
You will need to get an image of the
premises you will be using.
You will need to get a map showing an
approximate location for your Cafe.
Explain how someone would get to your cafe
using public transport from St Patrick's College.
Explain where you think your customers will
come from to use your cafe.
Internet Access for the café:
The café needs internet access for the
customers to be able to access the internet.
Upload speeds are very important for the cafe.
For this reason we will only choose SDSL or
SHDSL.
You will need to choose speeds of at least
10Mbs for upload and download.
You will also need to find an unlimited amount
of downloads for the month with no throttling
of speeds when going over the download limit.
NOTE: For further information look at
www.broadbandchoice.com.au
02. Internet Access for the café.
Give details about the internet plan you choose
and give details about the speed, download
limits and setup costs and ongoing costs.
Questions:
What will customers be uploading and
downloading?
Why is upload speed so important for
the cafe customers?
Why should there be no throttling of
speeds by the internet provider
Specifying the Workstations
03. Specifying the Workstation Hardware What are the main uses for the computers at
the café?
What are the main features that people will
expect from the computers?
Is it important for all the computers to have the
same specifications? Why?
Items to be considered when choosing the
computers for the internet cafe:
What are the main uses for the
computers at the cafe?
What are the main features that people
will expect from their computers?
Decide on the number of computers for
your cafe (remember that 32
computers fit easily into C5 which is 65
square metres.)
Should all the specifications be the
same for all the computers? Why would
this be useful?
Should they be gaming, basic,
multimedia or a mixture?
Should you buy Headphone or speakers
Should the computers be name brand
eg. Dell or Apple or built up from a
store eg. Umart.
Decide on suitable CPU, RAM, Hard
drive, video card??, monitor size
Decide on network options
Warranty must be 3 years
Further information look at
www.dell.com.au
www.apple.com.au
www.umart.com.au
www.pioneercomputers.com.au
ITEMS REQUIRED FOR THE REPORT
A quote showing all the components that make
up the computer system by selecting the quote
and copying into Word.
Explain in 50 words why the system you have
chosen makes a good choice for your internet
gaming café.
The computers in the cafe will require software
to be loaded up on them. Examples of this
software include:
04. Specifying the Workstation Software
Office Applications (Word, Excel etc)
Adobe Reader / Flash Player
Graphics /Photo Software
Games
Instant Messenger Programs (Skype)
Browsers to surf the internet
CD / DVD Authoring Software
Media / Music / Video Players
Virus Checking Software
Find a paid version of each type of software
and a free version of each type
Explain what each of these programs allows the
customer to do.
Add any other software you think is necessary.
Look up 3 Internet Cafe's that are found around Australia
and then look at 2 internet cafe's that are located overseas.
Find out about the following items:
Location and name of the Cafe
05. Looking at Internet Cafes around the world Screenshot of their homepage.
Costs to use the cafe.
Extra services offered (eg. printing, copying)
Hours cafe is open
Any special features.
The internet cafe will be functioning as a simple cafe that
can serve simple drinks and food.
Equipment that will be required to do this includes:
Glass door Fridge
Coffee machine (business not home use)
Microwave
Food warmer box (glass windowed box for food)
POS (point of sale) system
Barcode Scanner
Furniture that will be required for your cafe includes:
Swivel chairs with backrests and armrests plus
06. Cafe Extras & Furniture some spares
Individual workstation desks
Front counter
Sofa chairs 1 and 2 person
Round or square café tables
Printer / scanner / Disk duplication desks
www.empirefurniture.com.au
www.ht.com.au
www.officeworks.com.au
Decide on furniture for the café and discuss why the
furniture was chosen. Find images and prices of the
furniture and cafe extras you have chosen and calculate
the total cost of furnishing your café.
Floorplan of the Internet Café
Use a drawing program such as Microsoft Visio
07. Floorplan of the Internet Cafe to show a floor plan of your proposed Internet
Café showing all the main features that it will
contain.
What points need to be considered when
drawing the floorplan for the café?
At a minimum it should show the entrance
area, counter area, workstations, server and
café area. Include furniture you have chosen
for the café as well as the cafe extras.
Provide labelling showing the different sections
of your cafe and also give your layout a Title.
Server Hardware
The cafe computers will be controleed by the
server computer.
Some software that will be required by the
server include:
SQUID (free proxy software, controls
access to the net, controls speeds for
different users to the net, control
computers that can access the net)
WINGATE (windows version of SQUID)
GIAI (printer charging software,
different prices for different print jobs)
HotSpot( product that is able to
combine all the above products into 1 )
Find how each product will benefit the café.
(Why do we need it?)
Get screenshots for products offered by
Hotspot software.
Find licencing costs for using
http://www.antamedia.com/ software
08. Server Hardware & Software
You also require some networking equipment
We require 2 switches (why?)
We require 2 Wireless access points
(why??)
B & W Laser Printers,
Scanner,
CD Duplicator,
POS,
fax
All of the above devices will be attached to the
main switch. Draw a network diagram using
visio showing all connections (including your
computers).
www.officeworks.com.au
www.ht.com.au
http://www.antamedia.com/
www.primera.com
Construct a spreadsheet that shows how much
money will be required to do a partial setup of
an internet café. List down the different
categories where your money goes and be as
specific as possible.
09. Budget for the Internet Cafe
Decide on the amount of money that customers
will be charged to use the facilities. Look at
other café’s to see what prices they charge and
also what types of specials they offer.
List some items that have not been budgeted
for in our proposal that would need to be
included in a real proposal to be more realistic.
Format of the Report.
Prepare a report using the following guidelines:
• A title page with your name, subject and title
10. Final format for the report
of your report.
• Contents page with each of the sections
listed.
• Each section should have a title with the
information listed to complete each section.
