Jeremy Austin 6/20/11 Jeremy Austin 6/20/11

Scheduled Maintenance

The network will be down on Wednesday, the 22nd, starting at 10 pm, for some scheduled maintenance.

Jeremy Austin 6/10/11 Jeremy Austin 6/10/11

Shop Wireless Link

A second network link was completed to the Shop today, thanks to the excellent work of David Michael. We now have a primary wireless link, running at the full speed of a 100BaseT Ethernet port, and a backup DSL link, running about 40 megabits.

This provides a backup loop through the Woodshop; if the fiber from the Woodshop to the network center goes down, the DSL and wireless can provide a backup link. Likewise if the wireless link goes down, the DSL provides a backup to the Shop, Fox Yard and North End.

Jeremy Austin 6/2/11 Jeremy Austin 6/2/11

Further Upgrades

The Fox Yard and North End upgrades were completed a week ago. Both sides received a significant speed boost to their Internet connection.

The dairy barn is also connected, as of last Saturday. You'll find wireless access there.

The Cedar House DSL has been flaky; that's been replaced for the time being, with a wireless upgrade scheduled for some time this summer.

Mountainview is coming online, with the same temporary data link that has been in place during construction. See the current phone list for personal numbers as people move into it.

A power control unit was installed Monday at Delta Industrial, as well as a switch upgrade, to aid in stability and management for our Internet uplink. Concurrently with that we had an outage of several hours due to troubles with one of our crucial servers. A replacement is planned.

Further switch and link upgrades are planned throughout the community this summer. We'll keep you posted.

Jeremy Austin 5/4/11 Jeremy Austin 5/4/11

Speed Upgrade

Due to stability issues at the Shop, we have upgraded its wired link, increasing its aggregate speed about 5x. This line has serviced the Shop, the Hillside House, the Fox Yard, and the North End.

The Hillside has been switched to wireless, speeding that connection up as well.

Further upgrades are in progress; the Fox Yard and North End, currently the slowest links at Whitestone, will have their service upgraded first in a few weeks.