Showing posts with label networking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label networking. Show all posts

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Just a quickie! - originally posted 5/3/09

I am close, I think to having all my stuff off the Dell desktop computer that J & A gave me a few years ago. Once I have checked it over again, I intend to return it to factory settings (hoping the wireless card will also be reset since I can't get it to work for some reason. Then my intention is to take it to the gym to have at the counter. I plan to have 3 users on it - 1 for me as administrator, 1 for E and one that isn't password protected where instructors & such can use it, but not change anything. E's & mine will be password protected.

But first, I may have to use it as the server to run the internet from in the office. I have been having trouble connecting my new laptop to the network there. Nothing seems to work, but it connected here at home & at the office without any problems. I contacted Dell's online support & they say they can't help me unless I want to pay for help to call me. So I hit the reset button on the 2Wire Gateway modem/router combo that E got when he ordered the dsl for the gym. I didn't even think that it would totally reset the internet connection - don't know why I didn't think about it, but I didn't. So I tried reinstalling it Friday - no luck. I remember E having to call tech support when we originally got it set up & I guess I could do that, but it frustrates me that it is like this.

I had taken an old laptop down to the gym to use as a server while I brought home the HP desktop to set up as my server here at home & then to reformat the Dell Desktop for there after I moved things. But that project has taken a long time given my schedule. In the meantime, the hard drive appears to have failed on the old laptop, but the internet still continued to function as long as the old laptop was connected & turned on. But I can't install anything to it & the internet connection just isn't working right since my reset flub.

So I am thinking I will take a extra wireless router I have here, the dell desktop & an old dsl modem that E's roommate had brought down to the gym at the time we were originally battling to set it all up & will set up a new network. Since the modem is the same as what I have here at home & the router is one I have also used here at home without any issues other than wanting to try to make my network even faster, it should all work! That will probably be my project tomorrow night while I am down there.

E left for Salt Lake City yesterday with the National Golden Gloves boxing team. Evidently they were driving 2 vehicles - a 2009 rental that was arranged by the local GG people and someone's 1999 (?) Chevy minivan. It seems that early this morning the older minivan developed problems & D says the motor is toast. So have no idea what will happen there, but they did have a 15 passenger for the rental van - so maybe that is enough.

Because E is gone, I will be opening & closing the gym each night this week.

Other item of news is that A has let me know that my "foster granddog" is to be on America's Funniest Home Videos tonight. Her name is Koda & she is a chihuahua. This is the dog that A & J were dog sitting for in December & then they did it again recently when the owners had a new baby born early.

Well, better see if I can figure out when it will be on! Hope to catch up with everything soon! When I do, I plan to post a picture of my new laptop, my haircut & color and who knows what else!

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3 comments:
  1. Wow not sure what all you had to do to the computers but it made me glad that I have a nephew who is an IT specialist and will come and fix my problems whenever I call him. Think I'll hug him the next time I see him...
    Notice you have a countdown for the cruise, lucky dog you!!!!

  2. Not really all that complicated once I get everything I want off them. Right now I have 2 desktops & 2 laptops in my living room though. The final plan would be to have something inexpensive as the server at the gym, the Dell desktop at the counter connected wirelessly. The HP desktop here at home as my server and for the grandkids to play on. Then the 2 laptops totally synced within a few hours of each other so that I am never lost without one again. And I plan to get the house server out of the living room & into the corner of the kitchen that was my original plan for a desk, but that I didn't like using on a permanent basis because D offset it so that I couldn't see the door or the tv from it, so I hated being there. But it will also put my recipes back in the kitchen area for use.

  3. I did get the Dell desktop set up at the gym, the network is connected again - even found how to get into the settings for that router/modem & changed it to a more secure network & to a different channel - which was the issue with my little laptop connecting. So we have the desktop on the counter at the gym with a wireless keyboard, mouse & wireless connection. And I only have 1 desktop in my living room & 2 laptops now. But am thinking I will rearrange the living room this weekend & move the desktop into the corner of the kitchen.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

It's finished! - Originally posted 3/11/09

I finished the baby blanket for my friend, S's 1st grandchild this morning. Then I blocked it while I was at work and it is now ready to mail tomorrow.

I have restarted my sweater. Am using my sweater wheel to create the basic pattern & then adding the details myself. The vest pattern with the add on edging just wasn't coming out right in the armhole & neck area for the way I wanted it to look.

So far, so good with the trainee! He certainly seems to be trying and doesn't seem to be one of those who come in with guns blazing & ready to change everything right off the bat. Today, I had him pack the orders pretty much on his own and then he was stocking product, making boxes, putting fragile stickers on all packing materials, etc.

I nearly have him set up completely on the office network with a new computer - the new ones that S ordered from Dell are Vista. We had him connected to the internet on Monday, but not on the network. Then yesterday, he was on a network with S, but not the main office. Got him off that & then he ended up in his own network named Office, but the rest of us weren't showing on it. And he wasn't showing up on ours. So this morning, I ended up getting to work a little early & decided to roll him back to Monday & have another go at it. The flash drive that I used to set up everyone else wasn't working - I just got an error message after running it. But by the time we went home, he was on our network, it wasn't asking us for a user name & password to access it & I was able to print a test page to the printer we set up on it. Gives us 3 printers to chose from & R has the fax/printer in her office. Still don't understand why it is listing R, me & the server as being on his computer and not letting us access anything there - but maybe I can do a search online and find out if that is either required (which I can't think why it would be) or how to remove it! But for now - we are up & running. I do have to think they are probably wanting to keep him permanently, as long as he works out or they wouldn't be setting him up with a computer - they sure didn't the last person. And I think it is kind of nice to have someone with a little more muscle than I have.