As is somewhat normal...I am by default the IT guy for our small business.
Hoping that some of you with experience in environments similar to mine might be wiling to share some of your learned wisdom.
Our office:
10 PCs running mostly Win 7 (2 still on XP)
6 wired and 4 wireless
Wired machines have gigabit NICs...Dont necessarily need Gigabit speed but it would be nice
2 macs running 10.7
2 Wireless
1 Server running 2008
The server hosts an App that the PCs access
2 wired printers
1 wireless printer
Users have iPhones etc that hit the wireless network
my primary problem is with users surfing the web, streaming music and youtube and updating Facebook.
Secondary issue is with users opening webmail attachments that might not be all that safe.
I had a netgear WRN2000 router that worked fine until the amount of websurfing impacted productivity.
Upgraded to a Prosafe FVG318 - Frankly this thing sucks...
Wireless is horribly slow and the number of dropped connections had increased dramatically.
Wired computers have connection issues as well and on more than a handful of instances we have duplicate IP error messages appear.
The Prosafe also lacks the ability to block https sites (works fine on http sites) This is a large problem given that gmail, facebook and a variety of other sites are https sites.
I am by no means an IT expert...I call tech support ALOT...Love netgear's support for this very reason.
Any and all advice is appreciated...Thanks in advance.
Hoping that some of you with experience in environments similar to mine might be wiling to share some of your learned wisdom.
Our office:
10 PCs running mostly Win 7 (2 still on XP)
6 wired and 4 wireless
Wired machines have gigabit NICs...Dont necessarily need Gigabit speed but it would be nice
2 macs running 10.7
2 Wireless
1 Server running 2008
The server hosts an App that the PCs access
2 wired printers
1 wireless printer
Users have iPhones etc that hit the wireless network
my primary problem is with users surfing the web, streaming music and youtube and updating Facebook.
Secondary issue is with users opening webmail attachments that might not be all that safe.
I had a netgear WRN2000 router that worked fine until the amount of websurfing impacted productivity.
Upgraded to a Prosafe FVG318 - Frankly this thing sucks...
Wireless is horribly slow and the number of dropped connections had increased dramatically.
Wired computers have connection issues as well and on more than a handful of instances we have duplicate IP error messages appear.
The Prosafe also lacks the ability to block https sites (works fine on http sites) This is a large problem given that gmail, facebook and a variety of other sites are https sites.
I am by no means an IT expert...I call tech support ALOT...Love netgear's support for this very reason.
Any and all advice is appreciated...Thanks in advance.
