Wireless Access Point vs Router Performance

[Klueless]

You must be as old as I am. Remember bridging SNA or at least that is what we called it. Those were my early days.

SNA -Simple Network Architecture- I remember thinking that to be quite the oxymoron - back when IBM stood for "I've been mislead" : -)

What do your current days look like?

 

[coxhaus]

Retired... Playing on this forum.

I do run a layer 3 switch at home. Just for fun.

 

[Klueless]

Retired... Playing on this forum.

I do run a layer 3 switch at home. Just for fun.

I'm 70 myself. Work at a car lot part time (for beer money) picking up cars. As they grew they started throwing me at their network problems. (Perhaps they were hoping I'd quit?)

 

[stevech]

What I remember of the debut of switched ethernet (coming from coax), was me pondering "Send 10MHz serial data on a pair of phone-like copper wires? Are you nuts?

 

[Klueless]

What I remember of the debut of switched ethernet (coming from coax), was me pondering "Send 10MHz serial data on a pair of phone-like copper wires? Are you nuts?

Not being a techie I took it for granted especially since Mac users had been networking (AppleTalk) over twisted pair (the often unused pair in a regular phone line) for years before switched Ethernet : -)

One of the places I worked had hundreds of Macs running over the company's phone lines while the PC/Novell users were still debating Token-Ring versus Ethernet.

 

[htismaqe]

I love the fact that there's a few old farts here.

 

[Klueless]

I love the fact that there's a few old farts here.

Actually, I've been thinking about your user ID

htismage
ht is m age
eighty is my age?​

Tell me I'm wrong young man!

 

[sfx2000]

Not being a techie I took it for granted especially since Mac users had been networking (AppleTalk) over twisted pair (the often unused pair in a regular phone line) for years before switched Ethernet

Farallon and PhoneNet - those were the days... nice workaround over Apple's expensive solution...

Not fast by any means, but in the day, it was more than good enough to share printers and dropbox...

 

[htismaqe]

it's a Q

htismaQe

It's randomly generated. I've been using it as an Internet/BBS nick since the early 90's. Not really sure why other than the fact that it's guaranteed to be available...

 

[Klueless]

htismaqe

ooops ... oh well ... you will grow into my version of your name someday : -)