First things first... 4 DAYS!!!!

Today I went up to London, mainly to install the new Wireless 802.11g network up there. I had gotten all the bits last Friday and tested them all out in Sutton first. Yesterday I put the access point, and two PC cards into a bag and took them home so I could take them with me today.

I was meaning to drop my dad at the airport, then carry on to Sutton. Once there I would grab the wireless stuff and walk up to the station without going into the office. Which should've saved me some time.

Sounded like a good plan. Shame it didn't work out quite like that though. I got in the car and drove to the airport, then realised I had forgotten something. The damn bag with the wireless kit in. ARGHHHHHHHH!!!! So I had to drive all the way home again, pick it up and then drive all the way to Sutton. I wasted about an hour in all... not as bad as it could've been, but extremely annoying all the same.

Once I got to the London office, I started setting up the access point. Plugged in the power and ethernet cable and put the other end into the hub. Then I sat down at one of the spare computers, changed the IP address to match the same range as the access point was set to (the same as in Sutton, London uses a totally different IP range) and used the Linksys setup program to reassign the IP address of the AP to the right one and changed the PC back to dynamic so it could get re-assigned an IP from the DHCP server.

Once that was done, I set up Robert's laptop with the drivers and WEP key for the PC card, and got it online. Then I worked on Peter's laptop, same thing. He also wanted me to set up the printer drivers on it so he could connect to the office printer, so I did that too. Robert wanted me to move the spare LCD into the small office, so I did. Hmm... what else. I set up the same printer on my dad's laptop while I was there.

One of Robert's clients was having some computer problems, so asked if I could give some advice, he was a tough person to try to explain things to. He's one of these people who thinks he knows what he's doing, when in actual fact he doesn't really have a clue. Scary really. He was trying to connect his laptop and PDA to his mobile via bluetooth. 2 problems, his laptop doesn't have bluetooth, and needs a bt pc card, and his PDA doesn't either and needs a compact flash bt card. Nightmare! I didn't feel like I was actually that much help to him, as he didn't have everything he needed to get it working, but he seemed happy enough with my advice, so I guess that makes it all worthwhile.

I only expected to be in London for the morning, I ended up being there ALL day!

I need to write something about Monday and Kit Kats... will do that tomorrow!