On Fri, 4 May 2007, Steve Rigby wrote:
Yep. As of this afternoon, they have the wireless system running, sort of. The POS application will not work now, and they are telling me that they are now wishing they had never decided to go wireless, and want to look into hooking the CAT5 cables back up. They have been trying to get this thing up for three days. Does the person in charge know much at all about wireless networking? No, but she has a big ego and thinks that is enough to get the job done appropriately. She did no homework in advance of taking this leap, and is paying the price.
How do the computers running the pieces of the POS system address each other? Hostname? IP address? If the latter, you may be running into a problem if the router (wireless or wired) is handing out new addresses via DHCP. You could still set things up with a static configuration though it would be difficult to get all the settings correct. You can do so whether you pick wired or wireless, though, as Tom points out, it's going to be difficult to secure a wireless network to the standards expected. -- Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
