nightjumps 1 #1 November 11, 2003 Well, I decided to upgrade my skills since getting out of I.T. a couple of years ago. I bought a couple of eMachines with 2.5 gHz Celerons, a couple of new monitors, An MS 802.11b base station for the server and an MS wireless adapter for the client. I pushed all my my files to a webserver. Installed the two machines, configured them with all the Office Software, Frontpage, CuteFTP, etc. installed the software for the wireless base & adapter (did you know the software gets installed before the hardare on a wireless network? - that was different). Punched it up and the network runs like a charm. Total time = 4 hours - from purchase to installed, to configured, to up & running. Total Cost: $1,497.00!!! We've come a long way since I built a 386 SX 25 for grad school nine years ago. Cost....$2300.00!!! It is a great time to be alive during this information age. Oh yeah... Don't beat me up about the eMachines... I know they're clone throw aways, but I busted open several machines including Gateways (a friend works there), HP's Compaqs and they all get the motherboard and components from the same folks. The case, CPU, ram, et.al... $399.00 (without monitor). And.... XP is the shits. When I was sharing the printer over the wireless for the client... it wnet and searched the server for the printer driver... pulled the driver from the server and installed it on the client..... WOO WOOO!! I'm buyin beer!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MattM 0 #2 November 11, 2003 Yea, welcome to 2003. Matt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lummy 4 #3 November 11, 2003 QuoteAnd.... XP is the shits. When I was sharing the printer over the wireless for the client... it wnet and searched the server for the printer driver... pulled the driver from the server and installed it on the client..... I always liked that feature, Win2k does it as well. There's nothing like having someone call up asking to have a printer installed and telling them to type in whack whack server whack printer, Voila!!!! Oh, just to make sure, but you DID set up WEP, right?I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. eat sushi, get smoochieTTK#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nightjumps 1 #4 November 11, 2003 I did -downloaded the latest update. Course, you creative young bastards will figure out a way to XOR (pronounced - whore ) around my pc, despite the firewalls, the wep's, the spamkillers, antiviruses, etc. Things have come a long way since NT4.0. Jeez, I hated being a SysAdmin in them days. I may just buy the rights to setup a WiFi here in town. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nightjumps 1 #5 November 11, 2003 No doubt. Its a great time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
