No normal blogging today, since I was mostly busy with family stuff. For cynical Good Friday stuff, hit the search bar and look for “Good Friday” or “Eostre”, and you can read last year’s stuff.
The other thing keeping me busy was an upgrade to “the lab”, also known as “my office”, or “the library” depending on how I feel.
I have moved from a 100Mbps network inside the lab, with wireless G throughout the house (including a pain-in-the-ass wireless repeater) to gigabit ethernet with wireless N (almost) throughout the house.
This should mean that:
- Communications between my two terabye RAID arrays and my latest computer–which are the only three things currently with gigabit networking support–should be much faster. Let’s not say “ten times faster” since that’s usually a lie, but still much faster.
- Wireless communication between my latest laptop (the only one with Wireless N support) and the router should be much, much faster.
- Wireless communication between my latest laptop (the only one with Wireless N support) and the router should have a much greater ranger.
- Theoretically all the wireless-G (Linux laptop, Trish’s machine, Wii, media server, etc.) devices should also have a greater range, although this will need testing. The new router sure seems to have smaller gain antenna (and not replaceable ones either: boo!). If this is true, I can get rid of that pain-in-the-ass repeater.
Still to do:
- Rearrange device placement to optimize cable runs. I.e. undo some of the spaghetti.
- Clean up the office/lab/library/nerdhole/whatever
- Find a place for the second printer
- Install DD-WRT or something similar on the new router, without breaking anything.
