[geeks] request for assistance

[Andrew Jones]

If she can afford to operate a theatre in the single most expensive zip 
code in America, she can probably afford to pay a small business IT firm 
to handle things.

I don't understand why this attitude is so common about IT services 
specifically.  I wouldn't ask my stylist friends to do my hair for free, 
much less do I expect them to beg mailing lists to find a third party to 
do it.

On 10/16/2013 04:08 PM, Michael Parson wrote:
> I have a friend in NYC that is not very technical, but needs some tech
> work that I can't work through remotely.
>
> She's in Manhattan, Tribeca area, Church and Franklin.
>
> Basically, she runs a theater down there that has been having problems
> with people breaking in.  For some reason, the building owners won't let
> her run a hard-wired internet connection.
>
> She's gathered what she believes is everything she needs, she just
> doesn't have the skills to set it up up herself.
>
> She has a network-connected security camera system (ethernet only, no
> Wifi), a Linksys WRT-54GS2 (not sure which revision, but she's insisted
> it's NOT a 1.5 which can't run dd-wrt), and a MiFi device of some sort.
>
> She needs someone who can do a factory reset on the MiFi device and
> reconfigure it with some reasonable Wi-Fi security, flash dd-wrt onto
> the Linksys and configure it into bridge mode so the security system can
> be connected to over the Internet.
>
> All told, I wouldn't expect this to take too long, but it's not
> something I can easily do from Austin.
>
> So... would anyone be willing to help her out?  There's no money in
> it, but you get that grand sense of good will that you've helped out
> someone. :)