Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Draytek 2820Vn

Have been noticing weaker Wifi signals lately, have tried changing the channel etc. Definitely seems slower than the Netgear router.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Server 2003, DNS & File server

Have successfully, joined a client PC to the network, Server is handling DNS requests & acting as a file server.

Saturday, January 08, 2011

Windows Server 2003

Installed Windows Server 2003, installed active directory, having problems connecting my client PC to the server, the router is a DHCP server, maybe need to turn this off.

Friday, January 07, 2011

Draytek Vigor 2820Vn

Installed a Draytek Vigor 2820Vn today, had a couple issues, had to use the MAC address of my ethernet card, needed to disable ADSL, using a cable modem & had to re-start my cable modem to obtain a new IP address. The Draytek is quick with a lot of features.

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Failing hard drive

Windows Vista has reported one of my hard drives is failing, seem to be experiencing this quite often, not only on my computers but at work, I am using the hard drive manufactures tools to diagnose the problem.