Many people have heard of Hamachi, not the fish but the personal VPN software. For a while I was using it all the time and loved it. When Leopard came out Hamachi was broken. Now Hamachi works with Leopard and I again find myself using it all the time. It is very easy to setup. This is a great tool to help your RDP client and easy to tell if the other computer is even on. Your computer is assigned a global ip address in the 5.x.x.x range. This is not a real ip address like you 192.168.1.1 but it is an area of ip addresses that are left out of the net. Logmein has capitalized on this and integrated it into then VPN software. It is a secure connection and with the Hamachi client it is easy to connect to remote computers. This even makes local networking easier. Ok enough of a product spot.

Tip 2
The last day of April brings me to post number 2. Not quite sure what level person would need this but it is a nice little tip.
Dotnetfx_cleanup_tool- This handy little was a life saver yesterday. After having problems with QuickBooks Pro 2008 installing and running, my client called Intuit and they told her the problem was with the .net framework and sent her a 24 page doc that explains (with screen shoots) how to uninstall and reinstall the .net framework. The problem was the .net failed to uninstall. I approached it by thinking the problem was with windows installer but after cleaning it up I was met with little success. I sent a shout out to my peers and they came back with many things but the one that worked was the Dotnetfx_cleanup_tool. This little ditty cleaned up the .net screw up very nice. Its easy to use and a small. I am adding this to my tool kit. (I will work on putting together the tool kit for download soon)

So a blog. Hum never had one before so this is new.
I will call this one TECH TIPS
I can easily post a comment or two about my appointments each day. So why should you listen, no reason. to describe myself might help
I am 25 years old and live in Southern California. For the Past year and a half I have worked for a company that provides in home tech support. I am a level 3 which is the highest level we have in “The Company.” I do not claim anything to be 100% fact here and in fact might be completely wrong but it is what I am working on everyday.
So lets get this thing started

Tip 1 08.04.26
WEP VS WPA
Easy as pie. WPA wins in almost all cases. when ever I am at a clients house and work on there router I always set it to WPA. On Friday I did however find this to bit me. I was at a new clients home and had to replace there router. Seeing that all of there wireless clients were newer Linksys G adaptors i assumed WPA was OK. When I set everything up it was working just fine. All clients connected and got an IP address. The next day however the client called back and she was complaining that the connection was slow and did not work half the time. When I got there I was able to do a ping test and browse simple web pages like google.com. The minute I tried to load a heavy page with flash or lots of pictures the connection gave out. After 30 min of testing many things, I pulled the USB client out of the tower and tried a new slot. to my surprise it was only a USB 1.1 port, in fact all of there ports were 1.1.
So I reset the encryption level to WEP 128Bit and it worked fine. My guess is that the WPA which is often handled on the host computer was clogging the USB bus and the cause for the loss of connection.

So WPA and older computers don’t play nice. So be careful.