An Historic Day, the death of FS605
Today was an historic day in the process of overhauling the network at First Baptist Belton. It is the day that FS605 died. More appropriately, it is the day that the FS605 was tortured and killed. Yes, FS605 is the piece of equipment pictured at right.
As much as I hate to admit this, and I really hate to admit this, the 605 was potentially our most critical piece of networking hardware. It definitely wasn’t the most expensive, but when it had problems, everyone felt it, and I do mean everyone.
Netgear claims that this little device can support 5 or 8 networked PCs. I can vouch, from experience, that this little piece of goodness can support 65 PCs. Should it? No way! Did it? Unfortunately, yes. You see, this device was at the juncture of all of our building expansion projects. Each port led to a switch in our various buildings. So, the new education building had a port, the sanctuary had a port, the preschool/children’s building had a port, and the old building had a port.
Ah, the frustrations of having a single thirty dollar switch handle most of my network traffic. Today, that frustration ended. Today the 605 was unplugged for the final time.
RIP, 605. RIP.
Hahaha! That’s hilarious!
65?! It deserves a proper burial!! …I’d say a blowing up is in order!
But what did you replace it with?
That piece of gear should be nominated for the CITRT 2009 Hall of Fame
nice. i grieve this day.
That is excellent!
And I felt bad because I swapped in my home spare, a Trendnet TEW-432BRP wifi router ( $10 after rebate from CompUSA), at our satellite campus to manage dhcp when we had some “issues” for awhile.