How to find casual all-round IT work

[TheMonkey]

Cisco low-mid end kit isn't exactly hard to figure out if you're in the tulipe, at least to the point of getting a route out to the internet. If that doesn't work, you've always got a laptop to plug into the outgoing ethernet / router.

[Daywalker]

Bs

[wc2]

If somebody has a network problem, I can solve it with Google.

Brilliant, so explain how you google for the answer if the cannot get on the internet!

Fuk no way I'm doing my CCIE now, i'll just google.

Or try googling for windows if fecked

[Clog II The Avenger]

Solve it with Google

Quote “If somebody has a network problem, I can solve it with Google.”

This was a real life network problem.

50 user network running Ethernet thin-net . The network drops out every day but 15 minutes later than the previous day. (eg: Monday 12:00 network fails, Tuesday 12:15 Network fails.) Each time the network is down for an hour and comes back online without intervention. All servers and workstations are running and do not fail. Please solve.

If you give up I will tell you the answer.

[carpenteri]

Some insight from my brain (this works for me):

I have many guises which appear depending on the work available. I am a veritable chameleon of IT matter. I also have multiple personalities depending on the people I'm talking to whether they be suits or new media people.

I do my marketing directly by targetting businesses and arranging appointments and get a hit rate of around 25% (because I have the right attitude and can be cocky and persuasive, and also importantly deliver the goods!). I've recently got lazy though and have been plugging on non-agency based sites and working through agencies.

Flyers have a high production and distribution cost and a low success rate unless they are commodity goods (pizza etc).

This is a good motivational and common sense text you must read before you hit the road. It will give you some ideas and inspiration from a business perspective:

Geoff Burch - Go It Alone

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...644953-9039658

Worth it's weight in copper!

Thanks for the useful information

Cheers

[DaveB]

Quote “If somebody has a network problem, I can solve it with Google.”

This was a real life network problem.

50 user network running Ethernet thin-net . The network drops out every day but 15 minutes later than the previous day. (eg: Monday 12:00 network fails, Tuesday 12:15 Network fails.) Each time the network is down for an hour and comes back online without intervention. All servers and workstations are running and do not fail. Please solve.

If you give up I will tell you the answer.

Somebody doing something daft with the terminators or connections in all likely hood.

[Clog II The Avenger]

Nearly There

"Somebody doing something daft with the terminators or connections in all likely hood."

Very good! Almost there, the building is on the sea front. What is 15 minutes late each day?

[wendigo100]

"Somebody doing something daft with the terminators or connections in all likely hood."

Very good! Almost there, the building is on the sea front. What is 15 minutes late each day?

Tides?

[DaveB]

"Somebody doing something daft with the terminators or connections in all likely hood."

Very good! Almost there, the building is on the sea front. What is 15 minutes late each day?

It's thinnet, not rocket science. On summat that size When the network falls over you trace the cable runs and check the connectors and terminators untill you find the one that has been kicked, disconnected, broken or in this case suffered water ingress and replace it or move it as nessessary.

Once you've done that you present the client with a proposal to upgrade them to the 20th century and install a decent ethernet network to replace the prehistoric rats nest they currently have.

[chef]

I'm stunned Thinnet even still exists.. what pre-historic org are you working for?

I'm presuming from their upkeep with modern technology that they dont yet have a website, or even TFT screens, are they all still running win98?