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Network: the sequel: sooner or later, even the best-planned network needs to extend its reach.

Publication: Computer User
Publication Date: 01-NOV-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Network: the sequel: sooner or later, even the best-planned network needs to extend its reach.(Soho advisor)

Article Excerpt
Here's a little experiment for you. Ask your average movie buff to say the first thing that comes into his head when you say the word Network. The odds are good that he'll do his best impersonation of Peter Finch portraying newscaster Howard Beale in the 1976 movie of that name:

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

Now try the same thing with your office's LAN administrator. Ask him what the word network makes him want to say. The chances are you'll get the same response--but he may not know he's quoting from a movie.

There's nothing quite so annoying as a local-area network, especially if it's one you have to look after. The litany of networking headaches is all but endless: There are log-ins that don't, throughput that isn't, and users that can't. But one of the most annoying things about networks is when they aren't there. And it's staggering to find how many offices--both home and away--lack the Category 5 Ethernet jacks you need to hook up to your LAN. Worse yet are rooms that do have a jack, but one that's so...

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