Comment by copperx
7 hours ago
Isn't this considered to be "shadow IT"? and some enterprise networking devices have automated detection for such setups, I believe (?)
7 hours ago
Isn't this considered to be "shadow IT"? and some enterprise networking devices have automated detection for such setups, I believe (?)
She's her own boss and shares her office space with 4 other people in medical space, no shadow IT there.
Since her desk is far from the internet router, I added this little guy for her to have less cables and allow more connectivity.
Maybe, maybe not.
Some companies aren't very big, and neither are their budgets. And of course, it might be said that there is no solution more permanent than a temporary one.
We've got a large-ish color laser printer (IIRC, an HP 4600) at one of our locations. It's not a big place; it has only had as many as 3 people working there regularly and has been normally staffed by exactly 1 person for the last several years.
When we moved into that building, a missing link was noticed: The printer did not feature wifi, and there was no way to get a clean ethernet drop to it without visible external conduit. The boss man didn't like the idea of conduit.
To get it working for now, I went over to Wal-Mart and bought whatever the current rev of Linksys WRT54G was. I put some iteration of Tomato on it so it could operate in station mode and graft the printer into the wifi network.
I plugged that blue Linksys box in back in 2007; it turned 18 years old this year.
It's pretty little slow by modern wifi standards, and the 2.4GHz band is much more congested than it used to be, but: It still works, and nobody seems motivated to spend money to implement a better solution... so it remains.