I've recently begun working at a small office and they've asked me to look into how their network.. works. I'm not the first person I'd call when you have a networking problem, in other words, my knowledge of it is very limited, so I'm wondering what the best way to go about it would be.
There is a "central location", which has.. all sorts of cables connected into the wall. The thing it connects to on the wall is.. some sort of a board, which the guy that handled it before called "T3", and on it each hole is named "T3.1", "T3.2", and so on. From there I presume it connects to the sockets in the walls, which are also named T2-T3 something. Interestingly though I found no similar board called "T2", but the wall has several T2.x sockets.
In that same room, there's some Cisco 800 series device that blinks, and I can't quite tell what connects to it. I realize this information may not prove to be very adequate, but the device/board/cables are very hard to reach, and I was wondering if you could tell me (by some guesswork perhaps), how this all works?
I'm more than willing to take a look at any single object that may be in that room (or elsewhere), I just need to know which bits are important and what they do. My instructions weren't very specific, I was simply asked to "get into it".
There is a "central location", which has.. all sorts of cables connected into the wall. The thing it connects to on the wall is.. some sort of a board, which the guy that handled it before called "T3", and on it each hole is named "T3.1", "T3.2", and so on. From there I presume it connects to the sockets in the walls, which are also named T2-T3 something. Interestingly though I found no similar board called "T2", but the wall has several T2.x sockets.
In that same room, there's some Cisco 800 series device that blinks, and I can't quite tell what connects to it. I realize this information may not prove to be very adequate, but the device/board/cables are very hard to reach, and I was wondering if you could tell me (by some guesswork perhaps), how this all works?
I'm more than willing to take a look at any single object that may be in that room (or elsewhere), I just need to know which bits are important and what they do. My instructions weren't very specific, I was simply asked to "get into it".