Monday, November 5, 2007

Re: Looking for excellent wireless help

Interesting. I will look into this.
As I will with many of the other good suggestions/referrals I have received.

And I will of course, let the list know what, if anything, I learn from the
process . . .

(Of course, by then it will be outdated, but what the hey. It's not like I
have anything else to do...)

: )

--
In peace,

Norman Maynard
Principal
Thornton Friends Upper School
Silver Spring, MD

"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity." - Tom Stoppard

On 11/5/07, David Held <dheld@poughkeepsieday.org> wrote:
>
> If you are running your wireless network on the 802.11 b/g standard, the
> best thing I did this year was to disable the 802.11b and just have
> g-only. I purchased G cards for all the laptops that needed them and our
> bottlenecks disappeared.
>
> David Held
> Director of Technology
> Poughkeepsie Day School
> 360 Boardman Rd.
> Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Norman Maynard
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:20 AM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Looking for excellent wireless help
>
> Good morning.
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for someone in the DC/Silver Spring
> area
> who can help us out with our wireless system? Frankly, it has just never
> worked right, and as we push/cajole kids and faculty into using laptops,
> we're running into this bottleneck of frustration with endless waits for
> logging on, network not available messages, dropped connections, etc.
>
> What we need is someone who is really, really good with this stuff and
> who
> can come in and analyze what's going on, fix it, and leave us with some
> info
> as to typical responses we an execute when typical things go awry.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> --
> In peace,
>
> Norman Maynard
> Principal
> Thornton Friends Upper School
> Silver Spring, MD
>
> "I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity." - Tom Stoppard
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