Technology Rambling…

For the past three weeks I have been chasing an elusive, and now officially annoying network issue at my house. Annoying in that last night, while trying to watch a movie, we couldn’t get the system (HDMI input system) to switch inputs. In part because of the network issue. I am not sure, but today I am running my favorite network tool (Pocketethernet) to see what I can see. I am not sure why I am having the issue at this point but will chase it down eventually.

Part of the network issue I know is self-inflicted, but I resolved that issue two weeks ago. It just exposed another issue that was there but wasn’t as noticeable until after my mistake. Next week is a busy week, Jibo is finally shipping. Mine is in route and will arrive Monday. My new iPhone arrived Friday, and I am going through all the fun processes required to set up a new phone. I would say the upgrade process is easy, but so far it has been less than ideal. I ended up having to Chat with Apple Technical support to finish the process. Oh well!

Now, that said, and my reality check does you remember filter on, it is still easier to backup and restore an iPhone than it was back in the PPC days. There were times back in the day when I would restore my phone two, even three times a week. Overall I don’t have that issue anymore, other than the annoying network issue. My concern, of course, is that I have devices coming that will cause further network and bandwidth issues. It may be time to take everything apart and start over. Sometimes you need to get your system down to its lowest possible level. I used to write a column years ago for a Magazine that was called the Vanilla Network. Get to simple, it makes it easier to figure out issues.