Tonight I finally got around to shutting down my completely open wireless network that used all Cisco access points. I have now completed my transition away from hosting, DSL, Cisco access points, 802.11b, and the OpenBSD firewall over to an external host, Cable modem, Apple Airport Extreme and Airport Express base stations with AirTunes, 802.11g, and the Airport Extreme’s natting. I haven’t ruled out keeping the OpenBSD firewall running since it has worked flawlessly for all of these years and it gives me much more flexibility. For now it is shutdown.

I also got to shutdown 2 servers I had running the basement in a room that was supposed to be a bathroom. That room always had a hum to it because of all the computing power that was just beyond the door. Now it is eerily quiet. All of the files on those 2 servers are now on my Mac Mini. That little experiment went perfect. My wife is thrilled and can’t wait to see if there is any difference to our electric bill.

The last thing I need to tackle is backing everything up. Right now I am just copying things from node to node, using the Backup application that comes with .Mac to backup to DVD, or just backing things up to my .Mac storage area.

For the first time in 4 years I am now just a regular user. Sweet.