Word: routers
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Director of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 said that the FAS router that controls communication between the FAS network and the Internet at large encountered problems that Cisco Systems, which sold HASCS the router, had never previously observed...
Davis said that University Information Systems (UIS), which provides network services to most of Harvard besides FAS, also uses Cisco routers that experienced trouble at around the same times the HASCS router failed...
Davis said that HASCS and UIS network experts collaborated with Cisco engineers across the world both Monday and Tuesday nights to resolve the router trouble. The current fix is only temporary and work is in progress to find a permanent solution, according to the HASCS statement...
...find that you can't venture as far away from the router as you'd like with one of your networked notebooks, experiment with the router's placement. Indoor range should be about 300 ft., but will be significantly reduced by walls, hallways and other barriers. If you are getting interference from a baby monitor or microwave, try changing the channel (a minor tweak in your router's basic settings). If your cordless phone is a problem, get one that automatically looks for a clear channel or, better yet, one that uses the 5.8-GHz band...
...prevent unwanted visitors, you need to enable the WEP security feature on your router. It's a flawed technology, but enable it anyway. You'll be asked to make up a pass phrase and generate a WEP key, a string of letters and numbers you will need to type into each machine on your network (after clicking on the networking icon and going to Network Properties). Friends who come over with their laptops will need that WEP key too, so write the key down and tape it to the back of your router...