Comments on: Goin’ to California (and back)

by: tyree

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:23:28 +0000

Orange County was a great place to grow up and a great place to live. I used to work at the Anaheim office for an international computer learning center as an instructor. We were evaluated after every class by our students. Management complained that our average rating was only middle of the road. After years of badgering, I got the IT guys to modify the talley to take in to account the number of students we taught per year. We were teaching over 3,000 students/instructor per year and other centers were doing maybe 600. The new scores came out, adjusted for the number of students and our center wound up with 3 of the top 5 trainers out of 240 world wide locations. Including the LA office we had 4 of the top 5. I told them for years our market was a little different than the “average”.

by: Station Commando

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:46:46 +0000

My bad, I guess I must have missed out on that. A lot of times you have to reset the modem (unplug, restart, let if fully start(a couple of minutes usually)), then start your computer. If you tried that and it didn’t work then there is no telling. I’m assuming you use Windows XP? Usually XP is pretty good about heading off most networking problems before they ever affect you. If the tech had you do those things then you are probably right and it had something to do with their end of the deal.

by: Radar

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:50:51 +0000

In this case there was a modem and an RJ-45 connection in the room. I suspect that it was a problem upstream with the DSL connection.

by: Station Commando

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:27:37 +0000

I have yet to be in a hotel that claimed to have wireless in the rooms that had a useable strength signal. They usually put one access point in each hallway and unless your room is close to it you may get enough signal to connect but you won’t be able to do much. That would explain the dropped connections. They usually don’t have any kind of security on the connection itself but you’ll have to log into their website (to make sure you are a registered guest) to access anything. I usually wind up sitting out in either the hallway or the lobby. Wireless connections in hotels are usually pretty worthless. They are too cheap to install enough access points to make it useful.

by: Chaz

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:02:29 +0000

Funny to hear the complaints about transplants to Cali. Hear in Washington state the complaint is the same except it is all the people fleeing California for Washington and its much milder weather in the summer. The average temp. for us right now is low 70’s although it did hit 90 for acouple of days. The other reason, supposedly, is to escape the traffic congestion although Seattle’s is ranked second worst after L.A.’s… go figure.