The Government and almost every business in the world that has people working away from the office uses VPN's so they are saying that their own employees are terrorists? This is just another one of those 'people with power' don't understand a god damn thing on how shit works. Unless you know of all 'good' and 'bad' uses for VPN's you shouldn't be aloud to say shit on the matter let alone call people names because of it.
Your talking about linux, a slowly build together peice of software that's kernal has more swear words in it than most websites have in their life time. I'm sorry but no. I was talking about an OS that was built for Mobile application and for that alone.
This is old news, they take something else and use it to make your wireless become directional, it had nothing to do with making the signal "better" in any way shape or form. you might as well use tinfoil on the tip of the antenna to make it go further. It all boils down to this, people want better reception in their house they need to two a few things. first and foremost they need to central position their wireless radio, 70% of all house hold i talk to who have issues is because the device is on 1 side of the house, and they expect it to go down two floors to the basement on the other side of the house and work. 2ndly people need to stop buying cheap routers, I can't tell you the number of times I've replaced a router with one that's got better output Db and it's fixed the issue.
But I guess people who like the whole DIY will have a ball with it for a while.
I do work with associates to provide 24/7 availability to clients. I would obviously prefer as centrally managed a system as possible.
The only thing I can recommend with a Network Operations center is to use SNMP to monitor your gateway and access points, we used it at my last job it was very helpful to check every 15 minutes to get a very close idea when devices go up/down and you can monitor everything separately. Now you don’t have to do it that often but it’s a good way to keep track of any problematic access points you might run in to.
I did installing and managing for hotel’s for three years with my last job there were weeks of hell and weeks with almost call problems at all. I bid you good luck.
Some more questions I'd like to ask you to help with your project. and a few suggestions
Is this hotel apart of a hotel chain or is it owned by individuals? Most hotel chains much use companies that they recommend for setup and support for their hotels. Some chains require this others only suggest it I'm sure they know this, but it wouldn't hurt to ask.
Does the company use Comcast Business class internet? If not, do they know there's a 250mb cap on the internet?
Is this hotel Enclosed ie. (walk ways are in the center of the hotel rather than outside) if it is inside you shouldn't have much trouble setting up the access points for every 3-4 rooms that is assuming normal wood construction. If there's concrete in-between the floors your in trouble and might have to do 5-6 rooms with AP's on both floors.
On top of the internet they are getting do they have a gateway already setup? Using a linksys, d-link or netgear router isn't going to handle 40+ guests on a full night, I would recommend a business gateway Nomadix AG-3100 so it can do load balancing and make sure no one customer takes all the internet for them self. This device will also have a built in portal that the hotel can use to setup weekly passwords to keep people from stealing their wireless. The Nomadix gateway also has a great support team that you can call and work with if for instance something goes wrong. Also the gateway supports Multiple IP's which is a must when it comes to 2+ people trying to connect to their company vpn from 1 location and something you'll never find on a cheap router make for home use.
If your looking to support this your self are you aware most hotel guess don't come in until either very early in the morning or very late at night, which can generate calls at any given time of the day if something goes wrong or fails to work.
One last suggestion if you saw telephone cables used in their setup I would highly recommended you run new cable, just for error rates alone. but in the process of doing that get access points that support POE and you can get a switch that can give it out that way you only have to run 1 cable to the desired location and you can reboot the devices remotely in the last job I had we did this to many hotels and it's saved us lots of money and time because you don't have to tell the hotel staff to unplug power from the devices, or have to wait until morning for the crew who knows where everything is.
I agree with the bad caps, they are everywhere my Westinghouse monitor blew almost all 4 of it's caps and sadly none of the shacks out here sold the right kind of caps. Thankfully there's lots of people out there who are trying to make a bit of money off of selling kits because when you try to buy them direct from the people who make them they normally ask the orders be 1,000 units or more.
We shouldn't be considered about e-waste they should just look in to alliterative means of making the devices bio degradable over time. I know that there's lots of different kinds of plastics today made from corn. We shouldn't be looking at the now we should be more worried about what's going to happen to it in 10 years in a land fill.
Has anyone ever thought that maybe the reason the ocean's are getting larger is because we're putting more shit in them, rather than the ice caps melting?
As I've noticed with most of my friends and a few of the comment I see that a lot of people use multiple e-mail account for different things. I’ve only had my 1 e-mail account since back in 99 when I needed an e-mail account and I got one free from hotmail. I think just from the top of my head I’ve got about 8 or so e-mails accounts, most free e-mail accounts that I’ve gotten for 1 reason or another and a few of them from my ISP that gives them to my freely.
I only use one, just one e-mail account the at all times I have used two at one point because I wanted to create a more professional e-mail using gmail so I could apply for resumes and not use my e-mail that I normally have that to some people would be considered non professional. Over the years of using only one account all the time I’ve noticed that during the winter I get more spam than I do during the summer, and if you unsubscribe to e-mails you end up getting more in the end result.
Now I used to be an MSN plus member and when I used the service for a whole year and a half I think I got about 2-3 spam messages every 2 weeks when I stopped paying MSN money I notice I would get about 10-20 a day. In the last few months I’ve recently gone though and checked on websites I’ve sign up for and deleted the accounts. 60% of them being forums I never go to anymore and others being websites that required my information to make a user to view their content. Now I haven’t signed up for anything in the last 4-5 months and I get about 1-7 spam messages a day, and not a single one gets in to my inbox they just show up in my junk mail, I check to see if it's legit or not and remove them.
Out of all the other e-mail accounts I never use the only ones that I’ve notice that get any kind of spam are my two g-mail accounts. One I’ve got on my resume and another I’ve had since they started the service but have never given it out. That one gets 30-100 spam messages a day, I have no idea why and it makes no senses to me what so ever since I’ve never used it for anything other than having an account to sign in with using Google.
If you downloaded any of them from the internet and you need to find out what, just look at the tags on it for comments. 90% of all the music my boss downloaded from the internet on his 2TB music drive had information in the comments field of the ID3 tags that said something like "ripped by such and such" or had a website in the comments. Other than that I'm sure it's next to impossible to tell if you got it from the internet or ripped it your self.
The two main networking issues I've run in to since XP, that I also run in to with Vista and Windows 7 are as follows.
The wireless zero configuration service that controls the computer's ability to control the wireless adapters will stop running, even if you reboot the computer the service will never start again unless manually tell it to do so. The 2nd issue is that if the windows computer has two or more adapters that one of them will randomly be setup with the IP address of 192.168.0.1 even if the internet connection sharing was never turned on, changed, or even setup on the computer. Both issues I've run in to countless times working tech support for the last 6 years.
hate is the word I'm looking for, I'm sure of it. Tile's really? easy app management right when you turn it on, I mean what kind of computing power am I going to require to make it run that fast and that smooth? something tells me it's going to take a huge chunk of money out of my wallet. If Microsoft wants me to love it even a little they'd make it able to fun on a 1 ghz processor and 1 gb or ram, just like being able to run things on a tablet with much less programming power but they won't because they'd have to rewrite everything again and that would cost them too much money. So they make this really annoying internet face they have on their windows 7 phone for their new OS, I've been a long time PC lover and I know I'm going to hate this one if they don't start fixing shit that's been broken since XP.
I'm going to have to agree with you, This is a private practice that the doctor is doing not a huge company. not to mention that whole doctor patent confidentiality. It's not like they are going to go to a physician's website and complain about how rude you were and to never let this person to other places.
People are mean, I always see more bad reviews than good ones and you really can never tell people to write good ones, the few people who have good experiences normally never need to share that on the internet. but if someone feels they've been wronged in some way by a person or company they feel it's their job to tell everyone on the internet how much the place 'sucks'
I mean I hate it when I go to a store and they give me the receipt and say 'give us a 5' when you do the survey. If it's my review I'm going to be honest about it not give 'em a 5 just because they told me too.
I agree with this statement. I understand the need for social networking and wanting to play games with for buddies, but I'm old school I'd rather invite people over and have a social gathering and play video games rather than us all be at our homes and link up and play. I hate the fact I've got to plug in my ps3 in to the internet when I've got to play this game or that game. and the fact I can't even play some of the games I've downloaded now because it requires me to sign in it just bull crap. I don't want free games, I want a system that'll work with out their system's dependance on it.
I call it a simple fix because my wife who doesn't know much about computers or any kind of electronic device can use this fix. on her Android 2.2 phone I put on 1 of the home screens the connection manager Widget that lets her turn off the wireless and/or Bluetooth and the ability to turn it back on. I tell her when she's not downloading stuff or playing online games to turn it off because of this DHCP issue. When the device turns off the wireless it stops requesting the old IP address and it stop responding to it like normal when you turn the device on it requests a new one and it works like a normal device in a DHCP network. I haven't tried this on any other devices but she's using the Evo Shift by sprint.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to talk a computer. First off it would know everything, and if it doesn't know the answer it there's the internet at it's ports to find the information. so what would be the point in communicating with one other than to have it do something you can't? I wouldn't find it weird that a computer could one day be teaching my kids in school but to realistically believe that you could have a conversation with one and it would respond in a non robotic response is laughable, in this day in age and I'm sure most people would be afraid of it. Hollywood doesn't paint a pretty picture for computers that can talk back And for most of the people I talk to on the phones who seem to have never grasped that computer are going to be around and you need to know how to use one or your going to get left behind I'm sure would be afraid of anything they can't comprehend and would love to just blow them up and go back to the stone age.
Oh boy I can have the batteries die on my keyboard, mouse and now my wireless plug for my monitor! I can't wait for the to be the new excuse for people losing in their games online. Oh yes and for the fan noise it's still got a fan, and that makes noise, I like silence you can't get that with moving parts.
I've used my blackberry with this program for more than 2 years, having tried using an iphone as well as a few different android phones I find my self coming back to the blackberry. The program's a little steep for $9.99 but it gives you a lot to play with as well as the ability save and use items on the memory card of the blackberry which I've yet to find an android or iphone app that did let me use the internal memory of my phone in such a way. Not to mention the keyboard for a blackberry seems to feel and work a lot better than most of the other phones out there. Granted Blackberries have a few years on all the other smart phones out there.
It cost money to maintain the network infrastructure, your talking about a service that people are given like gas and power. Companies can make hard drives and cpu's cheaper and not have to worry about the continued use of them because 6-12 months down the line they'll make a new one. Kind of like playing world of warcraft or any other MMO you pay a monthly fee because it costs money to pay for the servers, to maintain them to power them make sure they have internet access and that they are updated to support more players. if they were running on the same old equipment they had when the first came out with the game the servers wouldn't ever be able to compare to the computer's that connect to them.
I love how everyone seems to think that Ping is more like Facebook than any other social networking site when it's really more like twitter. First off there's "followers" which in Facebook it's all about liking people not following them. 2nd you get updates for when one of the people you follow does something, like buying a new cd/song or putting a rating on a song/cd just like Twitter. This is not Facebook look-a-like it's a Twitter for music junkies
If only they used this for dating sites, and it would either go to the next person after you hit it or they hit it. I believe it would go well you could go though the entire website of mates in less than a few hours.
It would let those people bypass all the freaking bots that are out that and make you waste your money to pay for the dating site.
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The Government and almost every business in the world that has people working away from the office uses VPN's so they are saying that their own employees are terrorists? This is just another one of those 'people with power' don't understand a god damn thing on how shit works. Unless you know of all 'good' and 'bad' uses for VPN's you shouldn't be aloud to say shit on the matter let alone call people names because of it.
Since moving it will cost them too much they should turn it in to a hotel! Who doesn't want to sleep in the of the worlds most expensive mistakes?
Your talking about linux, a slowly build together peice of software that's kernal has more swear words in it than most websites have in their life time. I'm sorry but no. I was talking about an OS that was built for Mobile application and for that alone.
It's the first, and the oldest smart phone OS
Enough said.
This is old news, they take something else and use it to make your wireless become directional, it had nothing to do with making the signal "better" in any way shape or form. you might as well use tinfoil on the tip of the antenna to make it go further. It all boils down to this, people want better reception in their house they need to two a few things. first and foremost they need to central position their wireless radio, 70% of all house hold i talk to who have issues is because the device is on 1 side of the house, and they expect it to go down two floors to the basement on the other side of the house and work. 2ndly people need to stop buying cheap routers, I can't tell you the number of times I've replaced a router with one that's got better output Db and it's fixed the issue.
But I guess people who like the whole DIY will have a ball with it for a while.
I do work with associates to provide 24/7 availability to clients. I would obviously prefer as centrally managed a system as possible.
The only thing I can recommend with a Network Operations center is to use SNMP to monitor your gateway and access points, we used it at my last job it was very helpful to check every 15 minutes to get a very close idea when devices go up/down and you can monitor everything separately. Now you don’t have to do it that often but it’s a good way to keep track of any problematic access points you might run in to.
I did installing and managing for hotel’s for three years with my last job there were weeks of hell and weeks with almost call problems at all. I bid you good luck.
Some more questions I'd like to ask you to help with your project. and a few suggestions
Is this hotel apart of a hotel chain or is it owned by individuals? Most hotel chains much use companies that they recommend for setup and support for their hotels. Some chains require this others only suggest it I'm sure they know this, but it wouldn't hurt to ask.
Does the company use Comcast Business class internet? If not, do they know there's a 250mb cap on the internet?
Is this hotel Enclosed ie. (walk ways are in the center of the hotel rather than outside) if it is inside you shouldn't have much trouble setting up the access points for every 3-4 rooms that is assuming normal wood construction. If there's concrete in-between the floors your in trouble and might have to do 5-6 rooms with AP's on both floors.
On top of the internet they are getting do they have a gateway already setup? Using a linksys, d-link or netgear router isn't going to handle 40+ guests on a full night, I would recommend a business gateway Nomadix AG-3100 so it can do load balancing and make sure no one customer takes all the internet for them self. This device will also have a built in portal that the hotel can use to setup weekly passwords to keep people from stealing their wireless. The Nomadix gateway also has a great support team that you can call and work with if for instance something goes wrong. Also the gateway supports Multiple IP's which is a must when it comes to 2+ people trying to connect to their company vpn from 1 location and something you'll never find on a cheap router make for home use.
If your looking to support this your self are you aware most hotel guess don't come in until either very early in the morning or very late at night, which can generate calls at any given time of the day if something goes wrong or fails to work.
One last suggestion if you saw telephone cables used in their setup I would highly recommended you run new cable, just for error rates alone. but in the process of doing that get access points that support POE and you can get a switch that can give it out that way you only have to run 1 cable to the desired location and you can reboot the devices remotely in the last job I had we did this to many hotels and it's saved us lots of money and time because you don't have to tell the hotel staff to unplug power from the devices, or have to wait until morning for the crew who knows where everything is.
I agree with the bad caps, they are everywhere my Westinghouse monitor blew almost all 4 of it's caps and sadly none of the shacks out here sold the right kind of caps. Thankfully there's lots of people out there who are trying to make a bit of money off of selling kits because when you try to buy them direct from the people who make them they normally ask the orders be 1,000 units or more. We shouldn't be considered about e-waste they should just look in to alliterative means of making the devices bio degradable over time. I know that there's lots of different kinds of plastics today made from corn. We shouldn't be looking at the now we should be more worried about what's going to happen to it in 10 years in a land fill. Has anyone ever thought that maybe the reason the ocean's are getting larger is because we're putting more shit in them, rather than the ice caps melting?
As I've noticed with most of my friends and a few of the comment I see that a lot of people use multiple e-mail account for different things. I’ve only had my 1 e-mail account since back in 99 when I needed an e-mail account and I got one free from hotmail. I think just from the top of my head I’ve got about 8 or so e-mails accounts, most free e-mail accounts that I’ve gotten for 1 reason or another and a few of them from my ISP that gives them to my freely.
I only use one, just one e-mail account the at all times I have used two at one point because I wanted to create a more professional e-mail using gmail so I could apply for resumes and not use my e-mail that I normally have that to some people would be considered non professional. Over the years of using only one account all the time I’ve noticed that during the winter I get more spam than I do during the summer, and if you unsubscribe to e-mails you end up getting more in the end result.
Now I used to be an MSN plus member and when I used the service for a whole year and a half I think I got about 2-3 spam messages every 2 weeks when I stopped paying MSN money I notice I would get about 10-20 a day. In the last few months I’ve recently gone though and checked on websites I’ve sign up for and deleted the accounts. 60% of them being forums I never go to anymore and others being websites that required my information to make a user to view their content. Now I haven’t signed up for anything in the last 4-5 months and I get about 1-7 spam messages a day, and not a single one gets in to my inbox they just show up in my junk mail, I check to see if it's legit or not and remove them.
Out of all the other e-mail accounts I never use the only ones that I’ve notice that get any kind of spam are my two g-mail accounts. One I’ve got on my resume and another I’ve had since they started the service but have never given it out. That one gets 30-100 spam messages a day, I have no idea why and it makes no senses to me what so ever since I’ve never used it for anything other than having an account to sign in with using Google.
If you downloaded any of them from the internet and you need to find out what, just look at the tags on it for comments. 90% of all the music my boss downloaded from the internet on his 2TB music drive had information in the comments field of the ID3 tags that said something like "ripped by such and such" or had a website in the comments. Other than that I'm sure it's next to impossible to tell if you got it from the internet or ripped it your self.
hey now, I always take my showers before playing eve, as for the productivity part I couldn't agree with you more, off to APB
The two main networking issues I've run in to since XP, that I also run in to with Vista and Windows 7 are as follows.
The wireless zero configuration service that controls the computer's ability to control the wireless adapters will stop running, even if you reboot the computer the service will never start again unless manually tell it to do so. The 2nd issue is that if the windows computer has two or more adapters that one of them will randomly be setup with the IP address of 192.168.0.1 even if the internet connection sharing was never turned on, changed, or even setup on the computer. Both issues I've run in to countless times working tech support for the last 6 years.
hate is the word I'm looking for, I'm sure of it. Tile's really? easy app management right when you turn it on, I mean what kind of computing power am I going to require to make it run that fast and that smooth? something tells me it's going to take a huge chunk of money out of my wallet. If Microsoft wants me to love it even a little they'd make it able to fun on a 1 ghz processor and 1 gb or ram, just like being able to run things on a tablet with much less programming power but they won't because they'd have to rewrite everything again and that would cost them too much money. So they make this really annoying internet face they have on their windows 7 phone for their new OS, I've been a long time PC lover and I know I'm going to hate this one if they don't start fixing shit that's been broken since XP.
I'm going to have to agree with you, This is a private practice that the doctor is doing not a huge company. not to mention that whole doctor patent confidentiality. It's not like they are going to go to a physician's website and complain about how rude you were and to never let this person to other places.
People are mean, I always see more bad reviews than good ones and you really can never tell people to write good ones, the few people who have good experiences normally never need to share that on the internet. but if someone feels they've been wronged in some way by a person or company they feel it's their job to tell everyone on the internet how much the place 'sucks'
I mean I hate it when I go to a store and they give me the receipt and say 'give us a 5' when you do the survey. If it's my review I'm going to be honest about it not give 'em a 5 just because they told me too.
I agree with this statement. I understand the need for social networking and wanting to play games with for buddies, but I'm old school I'd rather invite people over and have a social gathering and play video games rather than us all be at our homes and link up and play. I hate the fact I've got to plug in my ps3 in to the internet when I've got to play this game or that game. and the fact I can't even play some of the games I've downloaded now because it requires me to sign in it just bull crap. I don't want free games, I want a system that'll work with out their system's dependance on it.
I call it a simple fix because my wife who doesn't know much about computers or any kind of electronic device can use this fix. on her Android 2.2 phone I put on 1 of the home screens the connection manager Widget that lets her turn off the wireless and/or Bluetooth and the ability to turn it back on. I tell her when she's not downloading stuff or playing online games to turn it off because of this DHCP issue. When the device turns off the wireless it stops requesting the old IP address and it stop responding to it like normal when you turn the device on it requests a new one and it works like a normal device in a DHCP network. I haven't tried this on any other devices but she's using the Evo Shift by sprint.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to talk a computer. First off it would know everything, and if it doesn't know the answer it there's the internet at it's ports to find the information. so what would be the point in communicating with one other than to have it do something you can't? I wouldn't find it weird that a computer could one day be teaching my kids in school but to realistically believe that you could have a conversation with one and it would respond in a non robotic response is laughable, in this day in age and I'm sure most people would be afraid of it. Hollywood doesn't paint a pretty picture for computers that can talk back And for most of the people I talk to on the phones who seem to have never grasped that computer are going to be around and you need to know how to use one or your going to get left behind I'm sure would be afraid of anything they can't comprehend and would love to just blow them up and go back to the stone age.
It's because how Sony state this "I AM THE LAW!"
Inside a bunker so no one can hear her scream.
Oh boy I can have the batteries die on my keyboard, mouse and now my wireless plug for my monitor! I can't wait for the to be the new excuse for people losing in their games online. Oh yes and for the fan noise it's still got a fan, and that makes noise, I like silence you can't get that with moving parts.
I've used my blackberry with this program for more than 2 years, having tried using an iphone as well as a few different android phones I find my self coming back to the blackberry. The program's a little steep for $9.99 but it gives you a lot to play with as well as the ability save and use items on the memory card of the blackberry which I've yet to find an android or iphone app that did let me use the internal memory of my phone in such a way. Not to mention the keyboard for a blackberry seems to feel and work a lot better than most of the other phones out there. Granted Blackberries have a few years on all the other smart phones out there.
It cost money to maintain the network infrastructure, your talking about a service that people are given like gas and power. Companies can make hard drives and cpu's cheaper and not have to worry about the continued use of them because 6-12 months down the line they'll make a new one. Kind of like playing world of warcraft or any other MMO you pay a monthly fee because it costs money to pay for the servers, to maintain them to power them make sure they have internet access and that they are updated to support more players. if they were running on the same old equipment they had when the first came out with the game the servers wouldn't ever be able to compare to the computer's that connect to them.
I love how everyone seems to think that Ping is more like Facebook than any other social networking site when it's really more like twitter. First off there's "followers" which in Facebook it's all about liking people not following them. 2nd you get updates for when one of the people you follow does something, like buying a new cd/song or putting a rating on a song/cd just like Twitter. This is not Facebook look-a-like it's a Twitter for music junkies
If only they used this for dating sites, and it would either go to the next person after you hit it or they hit it. I believe it would go well you could go though the entire website of mates in less than a few hours. It would let those people bypass all the freaking bots that are out that and make you waste your money to pay for the dating site.
I think the idea of two screens the way it's setup is kind of annoying to me, I like having one big screen rather than multiple screens