In an effort to use this BB to find answers to my networking problems, I thought it would be a good idea to review the posts for the previous month, thinking surely someone else has posted the same problems I am experiencing in setting up a network.
I was astonished to find that 37.5 percent of posts had had NO replies! and yet a post on the **coolest** home network had had 34 replies. So the knowledge and expertise is there, just not being applied.
Is the problem of lack of response due to the people who are asking networking questions not providing enough of the right information?
If so, what is needed? Obviously the type of network being attempted, whether it is just a LAN being set up or whether internet sharing is also contemplated and whether it is by cable or dial-up, how many computers, what OS being run, what sort of cabling, what sort of NICs, what protocols and services, what have I left out?
All you incredibly knowledgeable people out there who have been boasting about the complex networks you have set up - please consider us poor dummies and help us!!!
37.5% of posts in last 30 days with 0 replies
The problem is more that a lot of people post without checking to see if the question has been asked/answered yet.
It does get tiresome explaining the same concepts over and over again to people who can find the time to post, but can't seem to find the time to do a quick search of the board to see if the question has already been asked and answered. After awhile, I tend to stop answering out of "topic fatigue".
A quick search on some topics revealed:
"uncapping cable modem"
32 different threads since February
"sharing connection"
57 topics since january
"firewall"
110 threads Since january
All I'd ask of anyone is that they please at least take a quick peek to see if the question has been asked/answered. That's all.
I think we may need to extend and revise the FAQ.
Regards,
-Bouncer-
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"Yeah Baby, YEAH!!!"
It does get tiresome explaining the same concepts over and over again to people who can find the time to post, but can't seem to find the time to do a quick search of the board to see if the question has already been asked and answered. After awhile, I tend to stop answering out of "topic fatigue".
A quick search on some topics revealed:
"uncapping cable modem"
32 different threads since February
"sharing connection"
57 topics since january
"firewall"
110 threads Since january
All I'd ask of anyone is that they please at least take a quick peek to see if the question has been asked/answered. That's all.
I think we may need to extend and revise the FAQ.
Regards,
-Bouncer-
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"Yeah Baby, YEAH!!!"
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Eggles
Thanks for your reply Bouncer.
I appreciate that people don't do a search before asking their own question, but I had gone back a month, and although I found a number of people who had asked a similar question to mine, most had not been replied to, or if they had, had not received a reply that either was applicable or I was able to understand. Therefore there didn't seem to be any point in going back further than one month (as I expected more of the same).
I think that people who know a lot about networking forget that even the language is unintelligible to us newbies. For example, in the examples you have given - what is meant by 'uncapping cable modem'??? I know what 'cable modem' means but would never have thought to put the work 'uncapping' in the same three word phrase. So I wouldn't have gone looking for anything using that string.
Putting some more info in the FAQ would be a good idea - maybe making it a bit more obvious too would help.
I have had one small victory since my post yesterday - the network appears to be functional! It was just a matter of going in to the 'Properties' of the C drive on each computer, and ensuring that sharing was checked. So obvious now, so may be why no-one mentioned it.
The next step is enabling the 'guest' computer to use the internet via the cable modem attached to a separate NIC in the 'host' computer.
I appreciate that people don't do a search before asking their own question, but I had gone back a month, and although I found a number of people who had asked a similar question to mine, most had not been replied to, or if they had, had not received a reply that either was applicable or I was able to understand. Therefore there didn't seem to be any point in going back further than one month (as I expected more of the same).
I think that people who know a lot about networking forget that even the language is unintelligible to us newbies. For example, in the examples you have given - what is meant by 'uncapping cable modem'??? I know what 'cable modem' means but would never have thought to put the work 'uncapping' in the same three word phrase. So I wouldn't have gone looking for anything using that string.
Putting some more info in the FAQ would be a good idea - maybe making it a bit more obvious too would help.
I have had one small victory since my post yesterday - the network appears to be functional! It was just a matter of going in to the 'Properties' of the C drive on each computer, and ensuring that sharing was checked. So obvious now, so may be why no-one mentioned it.
The next step is enabling the 'guest' computer to use the internet via the cable modem attached to a separate NIC in the 'host' computer.
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Pro-Zak
I've been a member here for less than 2 hours, and am kind of amazed at the redundancy of questions in the DSL/Cable forum and here. This actually makes it harder to find the answers I'm looking for, because the 'correct answer' that I'm seeking is probably posted in 1 or 2 threads, yet I'm having to search 50. Yagh.