@Pete-S said in PFsense hardware ?:

Yes, it makes sense. Ubiquity and pfsense are not really the same thing though. Ubiquity is a router like any consumer Asus or whatever but with a much better OS. Pfsense is a freebsd computer with a web gui. They are good for slightly different things.

You could say the same thing about Cisco or whatever. All router hardware below five figures is kind of the same. Ubiquiti is definitely built better than any consumer gear I've seen, but the basics are the same. I've seen pfSense on the same kind of hardware.

EdgeOS is Vyatta based, though. Purpose built to be a router. pfSense is putting a router on top of something desired for general use. I've never seen a pfSense setup that I'd consider ready for production use. Most I've seen are worse than consumer gear because it's either unsupported consumer gear rebranded, or just old PCs without maintenance.

@scottalanmiller said in NTG NY Offices Relocation (Shopping the NTG "Store"):

@travisdh1 said in NTG NY Offices Relocation (Shopping the NTG "Store"):

@scottalanmiller said in NTG NY Offices Relocation (Shopping the NTG "Store"):

@travisdh1 is here, just took the HP Integrity and the SunFire Blade.

Probably won't be firing them up for a couple of weeks till after I get settled in at the new place, but man these were some sought after pieces of equipment in their day.

I still remember hackers using the SunFire workstations to reprogram smart cards, got all the channels available on DirectTV for free.

We found the serial cables less than an hour after you left!

That figures. I've got the workstation tho, one of the things that were always way more expensive than I could ever hope to actually buy. Just because they first came out around Y2K doesn't mean I won't spend too many hours poking it.

@dafyre said in Wireless presentation solutions for business:

I could see something like a wireless VGA / HDMI transmitter and receiver set up. That way, at least any device with a VGA or HDMI connection could wire in and present with few issues.

Tried a few of those (good ones) in some conference rooms. They are great on paper, but works poorly in practice. We boxed ours up and moved on.

Meh, what difference does it really make? If anything, I'm glad. Having high quality hardware allowed a lot of shops to try to justify buying something that was fundamentally wrong for an unrelated reason.

It's using the Intel controller. . .

powershell.exe get-disk

@eddiejennings said in Determining resources for hypervisor:

@black3dynamite said in Determining resources for hypervisor:

Instead of using Fedora as a firewall VM, how about using VyOS?
https://wiki.vyos.net/wiki/User_Guide

I was thinking of that as well, since the OS for the ERLs.

EdgeOS and VyOS are cousins, both descended from Vyatta.

ERL with an AC Lite AP at home as well as many clients. Zero issues.

@dustinb3403 said in Hardware differences - what makes one less than enterprise:

@scottalanmiller said in Hardware differences - what makes one less than enterprise:

@dustinb3403 said in Hardware differences - what makes one less than enterprise:

@scottalanmiller said in Hardware differences - what makes one less than enterprise:

@jaredbusch said in Hardware differences - what makes one less than enterprise:

@scottalanmiller said in Hardware differences - what makes one less than enterprise:

@jaredbusch said in Hardware differences - what makes one less than enterprise:

@scottalanmiller said in [Hardware differences - what makes one less than enterprise]

The software. The hardware is about equal, sort of.

But a $95 Ubiquiti is faster than a $3,000 CIsco. So the hardware still matters. Cisco at $3,000 is "Maybe able to handle your house."

Prove this.

Don't bullshit or theorize. Prove it. Get a unit and run tests or stopping stating it like a fact and predicate these statements with "in my opinion" and such.

Granted I'll never buy Cisco in the SMB when Ubiquiti exists for the cost and performance that it currently exists with.

But none of that invalidates the quality or functionality of Cisco hardware and software.

Cost has nothing to do with that.

I'm not the one making the claim, it's based off of measured PPS between the two.

You are the one always making the claim and have never linked to source material to back up your claims.

I've never made the claim. I've repeated Ubiquiti's performance measurements. It's nothing to do with me. I just remember the number and repeat it as it is a critical guideline for understanding where Ubiquiti falls within the Cisco product range. When people are talking $10K Ciscos, we can't talk Ubiquiti, it just doesn't make sense. But at $3K and below, I've never had anyone come up with any value proposition to Cisco gear considering that Ubiquiti is measured at better throughput until that price point. Granted, Ubiquiti did the study, but Cisco has not disputed it or claimed any other performance of which I am aware.

If you're repeating it, find the source and post a link, FFS. I want to believe a lot of what you say, but I agree with @jaredbusch here. It comes out like another scott-ism.

It only sounds that way because you think I don't have sources for all of my stuff.

You can always go look up Cisco performance, too, and see what it is.

But you're the person spouting something off as a fact, so provide the source!

This is correct, it is not our job to do research when you are the one claiming a fact. It is the reader's job to verify, but the reader cannot do that without the initial facts.

Yes, I know you already answered. Just closing my part of the conversation.

Both of my R710s and my DL380 have 8 cores. The R710s were under $200 and the DL380 was like $230

@EddieJennings said in Laptop and Korora:

And now I wait. 🙂
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Awesome

About the laptop, not the waiting.

@JaredBusch said in Ubiquiti switches: UniFi vs EdgeMax:

@coliver said in Ubiquiti switches: UniFi vs EdgeMax:

@thwr said in Ubiquiti switches: UniFi vs EdgeMax:

Mh, is the EdgeSwitch able to run a VPN tunnel on its own? I need to connect a "remote" office to my server room. The office is in the 3rd floor, my server room in the basement and I need to run through a "public" patch room (primary cabling junction for the building).

Like:
3rd floor "remote" office -> fiber -> public patch room -> fiber -> my Serverroom (basement) -> Office

I doubt it has the ability to configure a VPN that seems like an edge device is needed for that.

It does not. That would be the router's job.

Yeah, could have been. Probably the same software behind the scenes etc.

I can only add that most of my systems the last decade have been ASUS boards, they are rock solid.

Apparently this got abandoned.

@DustinB3403 said:

Here is the definition.

http://mangolassi.it/topic/6816/hot-swap-vs-blind-swap/2

Now which applies to MDADM RAID? If Cold swapping is the only way of swapping drives, then I guess it immediately excludes it from any Enterprise or even business solution.

MD RAID (MDADM is the management utility for MD RAID) is hot swap, of course, and some vendors like ReadyNAS and Synology add their own extensions to add blind swapping. No one would even discuss it if it wasn't hot swap.

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@travisdh1 said:

Tom's Harware has a list made for SAM.

I agree. Looks like a Radion R7 360 is currently the sweet spot.

Want GTX to interface with Steam.

What does this mean? Are we talking about the driver integration that Steam does? Or is there something more?

Steam has several features that use the NVidia streaming technology that is only included in GTX model GPUs. You can use Steam without it, but not all Steam features like the Steam Link.

AMD has a separate recording app now. It might do streaming, haven't looked for that. It works with all games tho, not just Steam ones.

@scottalanmiller said:

Well that worked out well!

Yes, year end seems to be very good! Macbook Pro got serviced for FREE, this desktop fixed for a very cheap price and got the Surface Pro4, hope this is a sign for very good start for 2016! 🙂 Touch wood! 🙂

@ryanblahnik said:

@BRRABill I worked as a technician at a Ubreakifix repair shop for a short time.

Would that have been maybe an iPhone 4S, where you had to go in through the back cover and take almost everything apart to get at that screen?

From the iPhone 5 forward, the screens got pretty easy to change out pretty quickly after seeing a couple, but it's also definitely an adjustment starting to work with parts and screws that are 10% of the usual size. Once in a while, something like a flex cable could just seem determined to not stay in one piece.

When receiving a bad part means having to wait for another order rather than just going back to the shelf to look for a good one, that's another disincentive for diy too.

Yeah, I had done a few 3Gs, and it was easy. Then the 4 or 4S ... it involved around 30+ screws. It was ridiculous.

As much as I typically help anyone who asks for computer help (I know, I know) for phones and tablets I send them to the mall.

@Dashrender This is only moderate density DDR3, no where near 128GB. Every color is another layer of copper. Check out his grid size for scale! 4 thousandths of an inch!

Now consider that each trace from the chip to the pin needs to be the same length or you start to induce latency errors. That should blow your mind sufficiently 🙂

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@Reid-Cooper said:

Maybe the more meaningful question is.... which games can't be run on it?

Minecraft. It isn't powerful enough to run Minecraft.