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Resnet announces network upgrades

12/19/06

  17:15:00 by Joe, Categories: Resnet

Resnet sent out an announcement for network upgrades. That was in the making for some time, and is long overdue, since the old equipment and cabling only allowed 10MB speeds.
They are upgrading to 100MB. I personally would have liked a Gigabit network (some of my computers have gigabit network cards), but I can't really complain. 100MB is still a huge improvement over the current state.

So much for the good news.
Of course, they could not resist trying to misrepresent the past...
Part of the announcement reads:

The new switches will increase port speeds from 10Mbps to 100Mbps as well as provide better QoS (Quality of Service). They also offer security features such as DHCP snooping that will prevent rogue DHCP servers that have plagued our network over the past several years.

The "rogue DHCP servers" that Resnet complains about were all of their own making. Resnet itself provided bogus installation instructions that resulted in routers exposing their internal DHCP servers to the network.
Maybe that's Resnet's modus vivendi: Create the problem in the first place, and then claim huge improvements when they finally see the light.
Reminds me of shopping outlets who raise the prices and then advertise huge discounts...

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