No, I don't need one. I just got one. Woke up this morning and got ready to go for my morning ride. Been doing an hour up north into the 'country' (iow, no stoplights) before the rest of the family wakes up; it's truly glorious.
And as I'm tying my shoes, I click the little button on my main workstation, and find I don't have a network connection. Aw crap. So I look over to the spare workstation. No network connection there, either. Hmmmm, not good. I'm fearing a server failure. Check on the test machine behind me.... "Something bad happened." Down to the server room in my bike shorts, find the server working fine. A few minutes of fiddling, and it looks like the hub is the culprit. This is one of those "If I screw around with it just a few more minutes, I'll end up spending two hours on it and miss my ride." So I just blow it off and leave. After my ride, I plug in an old hub and the machines are back on line. OK, so that proves the point of failure. But the old hub is a 0.001/0.010 8 port, so I head out to the store... pick up a 24 port gigabit switch. Plug it in and it is NIFTY. Little blinking lights even indicate how fast each connection is; green for 1000, yellow for 100, and a little smiley sticking its tongue out for 10. Mebbe I have to pull new cable for some of the machines around here. :) Things don't always work out that well that quickly, ya know.... Whil _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
