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- These instructions may be specific for firmware version 3.0, however it will give you somewhere to start :)
- Begin setup of your Linksys Wireless Router by first plugging in the power. Give it 10 seconds or so to initialise and then plug an ethernet cable into your wall jack and into the port on the back of the router marked Internet. Next get another ethernet cable and plug one end into your either your laptop (or ADSL modem) and the other into one of the ports labeled 1-4 on the router. Your computer is now properly connected to the router to begin its setup and configuration.
- Next open a web browser window on the connected computer and type http://192.168.1.1/ into the address bar and press enter. A window will pop up prompting you for a username and password to access the configuration page for your router. Enter admin for both the username and password.
- Click on the black Wireless tab at the top of the settings screen. Change the Wireless Network Name (SSID) from the default value to something unique. Then Disable the Wireless SSID Broadcast option and click Save Settings and then Continue when the Settings are successful dialog is displayed. This will stop your network showing up on other people's available wireless network lists.
- You will no longer be able to access the internet or view the connection from your wireless networks list. Therefore you will have to go into your Wireless Network settings. Go to Start/Connect To/Show all connections. Right click on Wireless Network Connections and select Properties. Select the wireless network tab. Select the Add... button. Enter in the Wireless Network Name (SSID) you selected in step 4. Select OK. You should now be connected to the internet again.
- Repeat step 2.
- Now go back to the Wireless tab and select Wireless Security.
- Select WPA-Pre-Shared Key from the security mode drop down box. And TPIK from the WPA Algorithms drop down box. And chose a password (preferably a sentence with no spaces). Save settings.
- Again you will no longer be able to access the internet. Therefore follow step 4 again to get back into you connection settings, but this time select your network name from the preferred networks list and select Properties.
- Under Network Authentication select WPA-PSK.
- Under Data encryption select TKIP
- Enter you Network Key(password).
You should see the setup page below:
You're done! Easy huh?
NB: Make sure you change your administration login & username too (under the Administration tab).
If you are an SIMplus or an Optus customer and have come into possession of a sexy new i-Mate JAMin, like I just have, then you won’t get much love from either SIMplus or Optus to help you with setting it up.
This is what I had to do to get JAMin synchronising with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 through GPRS. It took me 3 days of troubleshooting to get this working! So even though this seems like a large set of tasks you have it easy, my friend.
Before you start:
- Make sure you have a new SIM. (I don't know how they qualify what is old, and you can try it without, but i-Mate told me to do this).
- You will need to get a Security Certificate from whomever looks after your Microsoft Exchange Server. (Also ask them to make sure you have permission from Active Directory. This is also going the extra mile, just in case). Save the certificate to your desktop.
- Call i-Mate (1300 850 513) and ask them to email you the Optus Australia CAB file for JAMin. Save the CAB file to your desktop as well.
Step 1: Upgrade you ROM
- See my post for instructions on how to Upgrade your ROM
Step 2: Install the Optus CAB file & Exchange Security Certificate
- On your PC's ActiveSync (make sure you are not connected to your JAMin) select File / Delete Mobile Device. This removes the partnership.
- Connect your JAMin to your PC via the USB cable
- ActiveSync will start and display "Retrieve Settings ..."
- A wizard will open reading "Welcome to the Pocket PC Sync Wizard". Select Cancel. This will create a Guest partnership.
- From your PC's ActiveSync window select Explore and drag and drop the CAB file onto your JAMin.
- Using File Explorer on your JAMin (Start/Programs/File Explorer) go to where you dropped the CAB file & double click on it. This will load the nessary files.
- Whilst you are doing this you may as well add your security certificate in as well. You don't need to do this under a guest partnership. Use your PCs ActiveSync's Explorer to copy the certificate from your desktop and paste it into one of your phone's folders (anywhere will do). Using Explorer on your phone, find your certificate and double click the icon.
Select Yes. - Detach your JAMin from the USB Cable.
Step 3: Configure the connection to Microsoft Exhange
- Connect your JAMin to you PC using the USB cable again.
- This time when the Welcome Wizard starts up select Next and follow the prompts.
- Using ActiveSync on your computer go to Tools/Schedule
- Select your schedule (ie: peak: as soon as it arrives; offpeak: every 10 mins)
- The 'Device Address' button will become available. Select.
- Check 'Device SMS Address' and enter yourmobilenumber@optus.com.au ie: +614XXXXXX@optus.com.au and select 'OK'
- Configure your Server Source, if you haven't already eg: server name: mail.yourcompany.com.au, the password you use to open your email. Check save password.
- On your JAMin go to: Start/Settings/Connections/Connections/Advanced tab/Select Networks
- Select My ISP, click Edit
- Again, select Optus Internet and click Edit
- Change the name to My ISP (probably not necessary)
- Modem should be Cellular Line (GPRS)
- Next
- Access point name is internet
- Next
- make sure this area is clear
- Finish
- Now go back to the Connections tab and select GPRS Settings icon. Make sure PAP authentication is checked.
- Go back to the Connections tab and select Connections icon once again
- Select 'Set up (or edit) my proxy server'. (NB: this is the real juice. This is the info that took 3 days to extract)
- Make sure both check boxes are checked. Enter in the following G Proxy IP address: 202.139.83.152
- Then select Advanced
- Tap & hold HTTP to take you through to HTTP Proxy settings. Make sure the IP is as above and the Port code is 8070.
- Perform a Soft Reset, but sticking your stylus into the tiny hole left of the connector socket at the base of your phone. The phone will restart itself.
- Synchronise with ActiveSync once more & your done!
Step 5: Set up a connection to your Wireless Network
- See my instructions for connecting to a wireless network.
Any further problems, feel free to call i-Mate. Good luck.
- Start / Connect to / Show all connections.
- Right click Wireless Network Connection.
- Select Properties.
On your i-Mate go to the Comm Manager program.
Select
- Settings
- Wi-Fi Settings...
- Menu
- Network Cards
- Add new ...
- Complete the General Tab
- Enter in your Network name
- Select Connects to: The Internet
- Complete the Network Key tab
- Copy the Authentication & Data Encryption information from your PC
- Enter in your Network key
Below are instructions on how to set up a connection to a POP3 account using a i-mate JAMin. If you are using any other type of W5 Device it shouldn't be too dissimilar:
Before you start you will need the following information:
- your email address
- Your email account username & password
- Account type (ie POP3 or IMAP4)
- Incoming mail server address, outgoing mail server address & domain name. Your incoming/outgoing mail server address will probably look something like mail.provider.com.au.
- Go to: 'Start' / 'Messaging'
- Select 'Menu' from bottom right hand corner / 'Tools' / 'New Account...'
- Enter your email address, select 'Next'
- Wait for auto configuration to say 'Completed', slect 'Next'
- Enter your name as you want it displayed on your email. Also enter your username (usually this is your email address) and the password you normally use to log into your email; select 'save password'. Select 'Next'
- Select the account type (ie POP3) & a name for this account (eg Personal Email); Select 'Next'
- Enter your incoming & outgoing mail server addresses. I didn't enter in a domain.
- A popup will ask you if you want to download new email now.
Bob's your aunty! Too easy!
The Latest ROM upgrade has only a few changes, for instance: Microsoft DirectPush (for email) and an updated Comm Manager. Apparently the upgrade will also make your Device more stable.
- Make sure the battery on your JAMin is charged 100% (apparently this can affect the upgrade).
- Download JAMin_WWE_213923_2139123_022021_ship.zip from ftp://ftp.clubimate.com/ to your PC's desktop. (This is a direct download from the i-Mate ftp site. There are other JAMin ROM upgrade versions, but I know this one works.
- Extract the file (it is a wizard).
- Connect your JAMin to your PC, with your USB cable, and run ActiveSync.
- On your PC go to the application extracted from the downloaded zip file double click and follow the wizard instructions.
I am a heavy user and it is my job to "sell" the Portal to users within the organisation. My most difficult task is to get the Sales team using it to their full advantage. So bright eyed and bushy tailed I started a column within our internal newsletter for 'SharePoint Tips'. However after one issue I am stumped to find another good tip. After a moment of frustration I found that I wasn't alone. I found a discussion about this very topic. (Click here). The discussion is about the lack of info available and the possible reasons for this.
It would be such a waste of a fantastic product if people can't use it! Therefore I would love to hear from anyone who knows of any good sources of free know-how for beginners through to advanced END USERS. I want to start compiling a list to keep on my blog for the others out there like me.
I have only really found one useful tool out there. Click here
There is not a lot of useful information around about the dynamics of a virtual organisation. Ken's blog has been a fabulous resource.
We, being Readify, are a Microsoft centric organisation, specialising in Technical Readiness. Our team is made up of 38 people, based in Australia. Readify is different to other organisations. For most a ‘virtual organisation’ translates to “we have top level managers, scattered around branches instead of at the head office”; or “our managers can work seamlessly at home sometimes”. Readify is in fact fully virtual. By this I mean we don’t have a head office, or any other office.
Along with other benefits, being virtual enables us to recruit the best people and provide a quality of life for one and all. I only recently discovered Ken's blog by accident. It echoes a lot of our beliefs/findings as well as providing us with some great additional tips. Ken's site has become my bible. I have yet to find any other resource which offers useful information for our definition of virtual. It is great to bounce around ideas other than our own.
Being a virtual organisation has worked successfully for us as we are very conscious about our methods of collaboration. The biggest difficultly is trying to replicate the water cooler effect – by this I mean casual social interaction and information sharing. From my point of view, ‘water cooler’ chit chat promotes team bonding. It is an important ingredient for creating trust and transparency. Although a team may constantly share information about job related subjects, casual social interaction is a conscious effort. I would be interested on anyone's experiences around the virtual 'water cooler'. How often do you think a virtual organisation should be bought together, to have face to face interaction? What methods have you used to encourage social interaction within a virtual team?
Just to share one of our experiences with you all: we have had great success from using Instant Messenger. This is not an usual tool, and one of many which we use. However we have made it compulsory for all members of the organisation to use a photo of themselves. This has enabled the team to create a stronger relationship with each other. We recently held a conference. 80% of the organisation had never met each other before, but since we all use IM with photos, each individual was instantly surrounded by familiar faces, making integration and interaction a lot more fluid. We didn’t even need name badges.
We are about to evolve our Intranet and embark on a SharePoint & LCS adventure to promote information sharing. Now all we have to do is encourage everyone to get fully involved.
The amount of time we give someone or something correlates with the value we perceive they offer in exchange. Advertisers try to extract time from their target audience to pay attention to their clients. People spend money on health industry, pay doctors/surgeons to give them more time.
What would you rather be doing right now? Why are you reading my blog? I appreciate it, but really…. I'm getting performance anxiety.
As our jobs demand more time from us, the topic of maintaining a work life balance is raised in conference keynotes. Organisations now use time as a retention tool. To retain the value they get out of their employees they sell them more personal time.
Money is a satisfier not a motivator. People don't want money. People want a better quality of life. Everyday people give up power salaries to work for companies that offer praise & understanding that family is the most important thing in the world. Others trade every hour of their day to run their own business in the hope they can stop work altogether as soon as humanly possible. The reason why I started writing this post is because there seems to be another type of trader: the Readify consultant.
The team of consultants I work with are the best at what they do. They are great guys that are at the highest level of their profession. They are ultimate enthusiasts. They are the guys plugging away at their keyboards practically 24/7, posting to their blogs, preparing their presentations for User Group meetings, organising Code Camp answering questions from people they have never met on the other side of the world. They don't receive money for their time, therefore they must be receiving something else that raises the quality of their lives. The most obvious pay-off, in my mind, is recognition and appreciation.
So whilst I continue to contemplate what makes the team tick I'd like to use this post to give them what they well and truly deserve… I stand up and applaud the efforts of the team I work with. You guys are absolutely fantastic.
Champage is present at the opening/launch of anything. Therefore I feel it is appropriate to drop a quote about champagne as my first post:
"I drink it when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes, I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it if I am; Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty." - Madame Bollinger (1884 - 1977)
