Whew! Keeping up with this everyday is harder than I imagined! But, I will try to rebuild some of what has taken place outside of regular daily duties (ex: fixing computers, printers, etc).
During the past week, in addition to regular daily activites, I have done the following:
Installed camera control cable in conference room to rear camera.
Spent Tuesday still fighting internet connectivity issues. With the help of DIS, we narrowed it down to a local issue (not sure what just yet) and on Tuesday, we jumped from 500k usage to 2.86Mb usage almost exactly at 8:45am. Turns out, that is almost exactly when we turned all the Macs on in the computer lab. At lunch, I disabled updates on both the Mac OS and in the Windows running on Parallels on the Macs. Not sure what difference that has made yet. Today (Friday), our connectivity seems to be stable between 2-3 Mb, even with a video conference going on. That is good. Now, I will fire up all the Macs next Tuesday and see what happens, since the problem is mainly on Tuesdays.
Wednesday, I worked at Blevins schools troubleshooting several issues - one of which was another scenario where someone had plugged a loose end into the same switch it had come out of. Since this unit was up on a shelf, it would take a deliberate effort to pull that off. We're starting to suspect a mystery plugger-inner! ;-) Steve and I also walked through a few fiber runs and a new cat-5 run to be done, trying to determine where the wires went, where they originated, and how to patch things together for the relocation of the administration offices. So far, we have at least two runs that don't seem to line up. In my experience, this usually means there is an inbetween stop that we have not yet discovered.
Thursday - Met with other state techs in Conway at Video-Relaity for a demonstration of the SAFARI Montage program/appliance. We also met with Beck Rains and Debbie Coffman. The notes from that meeting (if I can remember) will be posted once they are officially adopted/approved.
Friday - ran fiber between floors for data, hoping to resolve connectivity issues. That will be a metter of time before I know for sure. Worked with Phoebe and Lindy on the outside light issue for our new building (the timer is, well, wonky). We also discussed the alarm system and I used the surveillance camera software to review a situation from earlier.
I am hoping to run the wiring for computer/dl labs today (Friday) and beef up security even more. Frankly, I'm liking the security we have in place. Very nice!
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