I have a really great principal. He’s provided me with all the tools I need to do my job and then he’s gotten out of my way. I appreciate that. Like today:

We have a photo lab with 24 network drops. Unfortunately, all the drops are along the same wall and complete inaccessible to to most of the computers in the room. The teacher in the room chose to set up a wireless network in the classroom. He outfitted all the machines in the room with a linksys wireless adapter and installed a WRT54G Linksys router. Mind you, this all sits on a VLAN network running Novell software. The printer he sends print jobs to is a networked HPLJ1320 and a networked Kodak photo printer. The network slows to a halt whenever a class prints at the same time. I think the bottleneck is at the linksys. When that break point is isolated and removed, his classes can print successfully. There’s also the awkwardness of students logging into our network as user and THEN going back and logging into Novell with their proper logins.

Solution: I’m going to move all the drops to the poles at the end of the desks.

Now I’m not a cable-dog. My experience with building and deploying cable is very limited. But I got a few books on it, a few tutorials and my boss has purchased me everything I asked for.

SCORE

It’s like Christmas… in June. Now if my new house happens to get completely wired with Cat5 cable.. well - what a co-ink-e-dink!

PS. the only thing that’d make it cooler is if I won this iPhone! Ashley is going it again. Maybe, this time I’ll be a winner.

PPS. Upstartblogger has moved back to his original theme. YAY! But he says he might get rid of the underscores. BOO!