Advice for new office setup
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@Joel said in Advice for new office setup:
I will however limit the guest network in the building to only consume say 8mb for example as I dont want guests using much at all.
that makes sense, you don't want guest getting comfortable and using a lot even if no one else is using it.
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@travisdh1 I haven't ever had a switch die on me.
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@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@travisdh1 I haven't ever had a switch die on me.
Used to be common, back in the early switch does of 1999 - 2005. Often individual ports would die or the whole switch would just choke.
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We did lose half of one switch a year or two ago. But that was a lightning strike and the switch is still in use anyway!
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Guess im not as lucky. Within the last year i had a 24 port completely die, a 48 start randomly dropping packets, and finally a 48 that would sometimes boot but these were 7-8 year old switches. I ended up replacing the remaining 48s as a precaution.
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@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
We did lose half of one switch a year or two ago. But that was a lightning strike and the switch is still in use anyway!
Yeah, we had lightning strike here and take out 4 switches. I took the opportunity to consolidate down to 2 replacements. One of them near where I suspect it came in through is still going strong!
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@travisdh1 said in Advice for new office setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
We did lose half of one switch a year or two ago. But that was a lightning strike and the switch is still in use anyway!
Yeah, we had lightning strike here and take out 4 switches. I took the opportunity to consolidate down to 2 replacements. One of them near where I suspect it came in through is still going strong!
Even with a UPS?
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@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@travisdh1 said in Advice for new office setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
We did lose half of one switch a year or two ago. But that was a lightning strike and the switch is still in use anyway!
Yeah, we had lightning strike here and take out 4 switches. I took the opportunity to consolidate down to 2 replacements. One of them near where I suspect it came in through is still going strong!
Even with a UPS?
Yep, had the two UPS units those were on get blown as well. That was a rough week.
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@travisdh1 said in Advice for new office setup:
@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@travisdh1 said in Advice for new office setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
We did lose half of one switch a year or two ago. But that was a lightning strike and the switch is still in use anyway!
Yeah, we had lightning strike here and take out 4 switches. I took the opportunity to consolidate down to 2 replacements. One of them near where I suspect it came in through is still going strong!
Even with a UPS?
Yep, had the two UPS units those were on get blown as well. That was a rough week.
Wow. Tough.
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@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@travisdh1 said in Advice for new office setup:
@wirestyle22 said in Advice for new office setup:
@travisdh1 said in Advice for new office setup:
@scottalanmiller said in Advice for new office setup:
We did lose half of one switch a year or two ago. But that was a lightning strike and the switch is still in use anyway!
Yeah, we had lightning strike here and take out 4 switches. I took the opportunity to consolidate down to 2 replacements. One of them near where I suspect it came in through is still going strong!
Even with a UPS?
Yep, had the two UPS units those were on get blown as well. That was a rough week.
Wow. Tough.
Yeah, our label printer got hit as well. That stupid thing is so twichy with power that you look at it crooked and have it zap itself. Server came through it just fine tho
