How is your network?

Is it fast?
Is it slow?
Do you users complain about it?
Do they ever tell you they had a great day on your network?

Your network is your network. It is what it is. You probably have no feeling if it is fast or slow except for the complaints you get. if no one is complaining then everything is good. But is it?

I have lots of issues on my network. Issues that most users know nothing about. But that is something I have started to think about. How is my network? Well, frankly, my network sucks. I have almost no documentation, almost no baselines, almost no standard of structure. but I am thankful for the most it runs. And runs fairly well. The real problem is when failures happen. I usually have no warning until the calls come in.

Yes, by then it is far too late.

I can kiss finding excuses not run goodbye. Goodbye excuses. I can kiss any beer drinking goodbye. Goodbye beer. I can kiss boneless wings goodbye. Goodbye boneless wings. You get the point.

So what I am doing about this? I am going to get proactive, after I get reactive. Maybe, I can do both at the same time. Fix things, document things, change things, consolidate things, move things, make new changes. If this can be done (with a lot of help - and I mean a lot) I think my network could go from below average to slightly above to almost great.

So this blog will be to follow the travails (is this the right word for what I am trying to say) of my network up-averaging. I will discuss applications, servers, workstations, pix and asa firewalls, patch management, audits, eating habits, movies, you tube videos, music and a myriad of other things. Because life is not just networking, but all those things are networking.