Saturday, November 27, 2010

Setting up a new office

AS I had mentioned in my previous posts we are setting up a new office. I am now a veteran in setting up offices. This is the third office I am setting up from scratch, and the second one for my self. So it makes it much more pleasurable.

Now that the lease is finalized (I mentioned we settled for a house) and the conversion of the house is almost complete. I have got the house wired for 15 people. Finally I am going to have an office room with a door that closes. So no more awkwardness's when conducting interviews.

I decided from day one to keep the conversions to a minimum. But electrical wiring was a necessity as no house comes with even placed electrical outlets every four feet!

But for the network connectivity it was going to be wireless all the way. And I was expecting one wireless router and a maybe a couple of access points to have the whole building covered. But I managed to locate the wireless router and the indoor unit for the broadband connection right on the middle of the building and even with a normal ‘g’ router I get a decent wireless signal throughout. And once I swap the ‘g’ router with a ‘n’ router, the signal will be much better.

Next on the card is some furniture that we need and things like a water cooler and crockery and cutlery, a coffeemaker, cleaning equipment, etc., which I will have to purchase over the weekend.

Finally, I have to arrange the janitorial/cleaning, and a security alarm. Then we are all set for the move. I am looking forward to the next week. It’s going to be the start of a brand new chapter in our business.

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