Friday, November 19, 2004

Going Wireless

So, yesterday at work I got sick of what seemed like a slow connection to our server. I fired up my wireless card and suddenly everything perked up. It seems that our hub, being many years old, is only a 10mbps hub, so it's slowing down everything. Since we'll be moving soon, I had ordered all of our new computers with wireless cards. We were lacking a good hardware firewall as we set up our network, so our consultant fired up our wireless router. Yesterday, I decided to take advantage of it, and BAMMO, things picked up noticeably! I then went around and fired up everyone else's wireless networking cards and people are VERY happy. Now if we had a 100mbps hub, this wouldn't be an issue ;) .