Everybody loves a good party. We had a a regular blowout, I was having trouble predicting how the clubhouse WiFi worked when we made changes. I finally realized what we were seeing is the router somehow changing in response to the changes in demand. Is it MIMO? Or Beam Forming? Or something I don’t know about WiFi 6e? It’s obvious I was getting nowhere. I decided to just start streaming and see how the network holds up. I was pleasantly shocked. I had the gym TV, my computer, and my phone all streaming video. My predictions were that the network would fall apart. Instead, everything worked without a hitch. I decided I didn’t have to understand why the network did what it did. I only had to verify it would do what we want.

I invited four guys to join me in the clubhouse. We all brought laptops and tablets. All together, we had 9 devices running. Our goal was to stress the network until it failed. We had many variations of Zoom meetings and streaming movies. No matter what we did, the network calmly re-adjusted itself and offered perfect service. That’s about three times more load we would normally expect to see.

The WiFi party was an outstanding success. I’ve been working on this for a couple of months. Now it’s all buttoned up. Just in time for …

Dani’s visit! Dani and Gayle are in the air as I write this, on the way to the airport. They want to take Mom shopping, and have some family meals, etc. Dani doesn’t like driving in Baltimore. So I will do the driving. As i happens, they will be here during Ed and Lynne’s annual party. Plus we will take Mira for a couple of nights for her first time away from her parents. And my counting team is doing their thing on Sunday. It’s kind of like Mission Impossible. We have a plan that will let everything happen, with tight schedules all the way through. Hopefully, it will be completely unlike the last minute SNAFUs the Mission Impossible team encounters. Every. Single. Time. Really. We all know that pros make things look easy. Mission Impossible is on the edge of disaster for the entire 90 minutes of the movie. I think we can do better than that.

I hope all are doing well.