{"id":2398,"date":"2018-08-21T09:48:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T09:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2018-08-21T02:51:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T02:51:51","slug":"from-the-archives-evolution-of-a-network-guy-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/from-the-archives-evolution-of-a-network-guy-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From the archives – Evolution of a network guy part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Being hired as a tech support tech at tctc.com would forever change my life.\u00a0 It was like being shown who was behind the curtain.\u00a0 All of a sudden this world of T1 lines, modem banks, and DNS servers was before me.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t soak up enough of it.\u00a0 It was here I met some of the best people I have known in my life.\u00a0 Guys like Robg, Robr, John \u201cLand\u201d, and Jimbo.\u00a0 We became a sort of dysfunctional family.\u00a0 We were at the head of the wave as the Internet and personal computing exploded. We were truly among a very small group of people doing technical support for an ever-growing ISP.\u00a0 During that time businesses did not have I.T. departments, there were very few consultants, and very few people had done any of this before.\u00a0 We were being looked to because we were the closest anyone had to experts. \u00a0\u00a0This caused us to be on the leading edge of the World Wide Web boom.\u00a0 Our <\/span>close-knit group became close because no one else knew what we were talking about.\u00a0 All of us looked at what we were doing as more than a job.\u00a0 It was a lifestyle.\u00a0\u00a0 Like anything in life, things change.\u00a0 The small telephone company was sold to TDS Telecom and I saw the writing on the wall.\u00a0 The culture we had developed was coming to an end.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shortly after leaving TCTC.com I stated my own dial-up ISP on a shoestring budget.\u00a0 My dad was one of my biggest supporters in this venture.\u00a0 Without him I never would have been able to do it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sadly I lost my father in 2001.\u00a0 This meant we needed the extra income to survive.\u00a0 I applied for a job at Lafayette School Corporation as a Macintosh Specialist.\u00a0 Here I meant some people such as Eric Thiel.\u00a0 Eric is the Zen Master of the computer world.\u00a0 From Eric I learned the ability to relax when it came to solving technology problems.\u00a0 My term at LSC was similar to the culture at TCTC.\u00a0 We were a small group on the cutting edge of integrating technology into the day to day operations of the teachers.\u00a0 Things others take for granted were new at that time.\u00a0 Using PDAs with wireless cards to take attendance, implementing Gigabit Ethernet, and PC automation were some of the fun things we were doing.\u00a0\u00a0 It was during this time I learned a lot on how I wanted my professional life to be.\u00a0 I was working for a Boss who had serious issues.\u00a0 He would what I would consider your \u201ctypical I.T. stereotype\u201d. He made my life miserable.\u00a0 Part of it was me seeing the wasted potential in myself. It was here I knew the ISP business was my true calling.<\/p>\n

At the same time I was at LSC, my ISP business (MTIN.NET), was branching out into being one of the first Wireless Internet Service Providers in the area.\u00a0 We hung our first piece of wireless gear around 2003.\u00a0 I never had enough money to truly expand like I wanted to.\u00a0 During this time I met Amber.\u00a0 Amber was the best thing to ever happen to me. Quickly she became a true partner in everything we were doing.\u00a0 She was spending her weekends helping me keep everything together.\u00a0 Our typical weekend would be me on a grain leg installing or trying to keep equipment up with her at the bottom plugging in stuff.\u00a0 We were both working full-time jobs and trying to make a go of the ISP.\u00a0 Many days I would get home from my 9-5 job and be working on MTIN things until 11 or 12.\u00a0 The next day would be a full repeat of that.\u00a0 MTIN did computer repair as well as the ISP thing.\u00a0 The computer repair business kept the lights on, but also further showed me the ISP side of things is what my true calling was.<\/p>\n

When another WISP came into the area it was time for myself and MTIN to morph yet again.\u00a0 That\u2019s where meeting Steve Narducci changed it all\u2026.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Continued in Part 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being hired as a tech support tech at tctc.com would forever change my life.\u00a0 It was like being shown who was behind the curtain.\u00a0 All of a sudden this world of T1 lines, modem banks, and DNS servers was before me.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t soak up enough of it.\u00a0 It was here I met some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[592,595,596],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VLMf-CG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3209,"url":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/interesting-tech-device\/","url_meta":{"origin":2398,"position":0},"title":"Interesting tech device","author":"j2sw","date":"March 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0776YB2QF\/ref=cm_sw_r_oth_api_i_rU3NCbRJSRR2B CNICK Smart NFC RFID Ring: Door Access, Manage NFC Android Devices and APPs, First Wooden Smart Ring for Men and Women.","rel":"","context":"In \"smart device\"","block_context":{"text":"smart device","link":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/tag\/smart-device\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3180,"url":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/even-our-tools-are-high-tech\/","url_meta":{"origin":2398,"position":1},"title":"Even our tools are high tech","author":"j2sw","date":"March 31, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "Tools"","block_context":{"text":"Tools","link":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/category\/tools\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_2a65.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_2a65.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_2a65.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2584,"url":"http:\/\/www.mtin.net\/blog\/tech-tip-determining-mtu-via-macosx-ping-oh-yeah-and-windows\/","url_meta":{"origin":2398,"position":2},"title":"Tech Tip: Determining MTU via MacOSX Ping oh yeah and Windows","author":"j2sw","date":"November 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The command: ping -D -s\u00a01472 What the command does ping = Obvious -D = Don't fragment -s = the ping size. 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