Change Management in the Home
Just how complicated can a home network get anyway? It seems that every time I turn around, mine gets more complicated...and expensive. In the beginning (years and years ago), it was just 2 computers and an ISDN router. Then ADSL - SWEET! Then 3, then 4, and pretty soon, a whole house of computers. I have two laptops for work stuff, and every member of my family (wife + three kids) has one - all wirelessly connected of course. Then there's the lab engineers that practically live in my basement with their work PCs, the lab test PCs, the Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers (primary and backup) which holds all of our family files, PoE Ethernet switch (to power the 5 APs), core Gigabit Ethernet switch, two Ethernet-attached printers, Application server (FTP, backup application, etc.), and it just keeps going and going forever. Holy cow batman. Continue reading...