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ComputerBites: June 2014
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A blog about life in the world of I.T. in tasty morsels. Wednesday, 25 June 2014. We were asked, rather last minute, if we could provide wireless coverage for a manufacturing conference. One of the stipulations was that they didn't want to spend any money(! What we expected to be a job that took a few hours though naturally ran into nearly a full week. We thought about using a point-to-point solution but there was nowhere flat or secure at the 'tent' where we could put the remote end. Department meeting ...
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ComputerBites: What a week - No internet, no phones
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A blog about life in the world of I.T. in tasty morsels. Friday, 10 October 2014. What a week - No internet, no phones. It's Friday, thankfully. What a week it's been. The 'fun' started on Tuesday when, not just us, but all higher education establishments in Yorkshire and Humberside, lost network connectivity to the outside world. So all those services that were moved to be hosted off site for resilience (email, documents, calendar, VLE, library catalogue) were inaccessible. Follow me on Twitter. I have ...
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ComputerBites: Intro To Spectrum Analysers
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A blog about life in the world of I.T. in tasty morsels. Friday, 19 September 2014. Intro To Spectrum Analysers. I've not had time to get to grips with or go through the training on how to use it but, after taking the Spectrum XT home the other day, I certainly found it useful and our team boss. Asked me to write a little about it. Https:/ play.google.com/store/apps/details? Id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&hl=en GB. We recently purchased the Spectrum XT (. As you can see in the first picture the duty cycle ...
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ComputerBites: July 2014
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A blog about life in the world of I.T. in tasty morsels. Thursday, 3 July 2014. Next version of android improves WiFi connectivity information. A great new feature of android 'L' looks to be the ability to see the link speed and frequency at which you are connected to wireless. I have seen the HTC One M8 has the ability to choose which frequency you connect using, but from a troubleshooting point of view having this information built into android is a big plus. Picture from androidpolice.com.
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ComputerBites: August 2014
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A blog about life in the world of I.T. in tasty morsels. Monday, 18 August 2014. There seems to be a rule with a number of users that states 'when you need something doing by the end of the week, don't tell IT until Friday afternoon'. This rule was certainly in full force this last Friday. We received an email around 2.15pm asking for a large number of sockets to be made live for staff to move in that afternoon. The sockets were cabled back to an area where we have no services. If we had been involved be...
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ComputerBites: September 2014
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A blog about life in the world of I.T. in tasty morsels. Monday, 22 September 2014. This weekend we had our annual intake of new students. As usual we spent the weekend providing support to the new newbies to enable them to get on the network, use wireless and sort out their passwords. We also spent the weekend catching up with those last minute jobs that need doing before term starts. A wet first day. We also had to do a bodge job (yuck! Couldn't connect to wireless from their room with antenna in or on...
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ComputerBites: Giving your Cat5e superpowers - NBaseT
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A blog about life in the world of I.T. in tasty morsels. Friday, 13 March 2015. Giving your Cat5e superpowers - NBaseT. With wave 2 of ac wireless access points about to hit the market this year network managers have been wondering how best to solve the potential bottleneck problem of having access points capable of over 1Gbps but existing cabling limited to 1Gbps. There is now another solution. Cisco presented a discussion about a new technology called NBase-T. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I have...
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ComputerBites: April 2014
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A blog about life in the world of I.T. in tasty morsels. Tuesday, 29 April 2014. As part of some information gathering (probably to be used as a stick for one person to beat another person with during a meeting) my colleague has had to find out how many active switches we have around campus as well as the number of outlets in the data cabinets. I knew it was a lot, but I was quite surprised to find we have 1,859. Switches in use and 45,644. Tuesday, 22 April 2014. Yep, Sujithra couldn't help either and p...
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