I am cleaning up my Daughter's new business network. They have little switches strung all over. I am trying to pull out all the extra switches I can and replace wires which have cuts and nicks in them. The big plan is to get longer wire in place running from a big switch but until then I need to fix all the small problems. This network has been in place many years running the way it is.
I figured out one of the switches was giving us problems on one side of the business. They are generic China made gig switches. I went to Fry's and bought 3 DLINK 8 port non-manages switches for $20 a piece. They seem to work well. I wanted cheap since this is temporary.
Back at the DMARC I pulled the small switches and replaced them with an old Cisco small business non-managed switch which I bought many years ago. I centralized all the wires into one location at the DMARC. I moved their old business Time Warner network over to Spectrum. Moving to Spectrum gained us free bandwidth. Spectrum is a 200/10 connection and Time Warner is a 100/10 connection. I also put my old Cisco RV320 router in place since they had a very old Linksys router running.
All the desktops were out of date with a virus on a couple of them. I have been putting security updates on all the PCs.
The network is running much better now. There are no more time out clocks coming up when you access the internet.
As of Monday there will be 10 people working there. They hired a new employee and they need another PC and phone. I think we are running out of good PCs. Some are just too old to use any more.
I figured out one of the switches was giving us problems on one side of the business. They are generic China made gig switches. I went to Fry's and bought 3 DLINK 8 port non-manages switches for $20 a piece. They seem to work well. I wanted cheap since this is temporary.
Back at the DMARC I pulled the small switches and replaced them with an old Cisco small business non-managed switch which I bought many years ago. I centralized all the wires into one location at the DMARC. I moved their old business Time Warner network over to Spectrum. Moving to Spectrum gained us free bandwidth. Spectrum is a 200/10 connection and Time Warner is a 100/10 connection. I also put my old Cisco RV320 router in place since they had a very old Linksys router running.
All the desktops were out of date with a virus on a couple of them. I have been putting security updates on all the PCs.
The network is running much better now. There are no more time out clocks coming up when you access the internet.
As of Monday there will be 10 people working there. They hired a new employee and they need another PC and phone. I think we are running out of good PCs. Some are just too old to use any more.