<strong>Ian Andrews</strong>

<strong>CUIP Tech (Dulles)</strong>

<strong>Tuesday, April 27</strong>

<strong>Days Worked: Tuesday/Thursday (6 hours/week)</strong>
<div style="text-align: left;">The last few weeks at Dulles have been free of major problems, although there have been two recurring minor ones which I have yet to solve. The first is the wireless issue; working at Sexton, whose wireless infrastructure was fairly well developed, the problem I most frequently encountered was signal dropping due to lack of signal or old, unreliable hardware. At Dulles however, I've had problems connecting newer machines to functioning access points just a few feet away, and I've investigated every source of interference or computer-level malfunction I can think of. When I visited Ms. Kucharek in 209 last week, I was able to restore connectivity (probably temporarily) and I told her that if the problem persisted I would connect her computers to the network via ethernet. This is more of a stopgap measure though, and if anybody can think of a fix for the wireless network I may have overlooked, I'd be happy to investigate.</div>
<p style="text-align: left;">Second, I have had the problem of IP address conflict when setting up printers on the network. Occasionally teachers will complain either that they can't print from the printers in their rooms, or that unfamiliar documents are being printed. Since most of the printers work at the present time and new ones aren't added too often, this is probably not a major obstacle, but if there is ever a massive hardware addition or upgrade, I would suggest setting up DNS and a standared naming convention for each printer domain.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Otherwise things have been going smoothly. I'm in the process of installing Office 2007 on the school's computers, and hope to have the computer labs done this week.</p>