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Monday, July 14, 2008 |
Tech: I Am An Idiot
And in one of those moments you kick yourself for not actually figuring out earlier:
- Back in February, with my WiFi requiring reboots every half hour or more frequently, I bought a Cisco 1234AP wireless point of presence. (Meantime, I was using Verizon's wireless broadband access as a weak substitute. It's only 512kbps or worse for the most part, but it beats having to drag a cable around.)
- Upon receipt, I realized I had no idea how to configure it and no antennae to make it go anyway, and in any event, the place I bought it from failed to disclose that it was a factory refurb with no returns (through no fault of their own, unfortunately, as they were a drop shipper).
- I gave up on said POP and bought a more expensive Cisco router + WiFi access point through a friend with a reseller account. I got a discount better than half price but 3-4 times more expensive than the consumer-grade WiFi hardware out there with similar functionality. This is okay, because the Netgear/Linksys/what-have-you units were dying at the rate of about one every 3-4 months on me, so it got to the point of either spending the money on quality hardware or just keep hoping until I found a unit that wouldn't die on me.
- Having waited about three months for the hardware to arrive, I finally got it ... and having not faced Cisco IOS in almost a decade, realized I had no idea how to make it work.
- Thus I took it to work for our networking gurus to kick start for me.
- Meantime, I figured, hey, now that I've got the console cable plugged into my desktop, maybe I can give this POP a whirl. Sure enough, works like a top with a little tweaking and some significant digging at the Cisco website.
Labels: stupid ideas, tech
Comments:
I'm surprised you've had such high mortality rates with standard Linksys/Netgear routers...I've been using the same WRT54G for years, now. Luck?
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