What Are You Doing Right Now
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Can't wait for tomorrow. Will order a bunch of UBNT EdgeMax switches, AC Pro APs and and an EdgeRouter Infinity. Complete network revamp.
Very nice.
You bet. Right now, I've inherited a network which grew for 20 years. And it looks like that. It works, somehow, but it's time to give it a facelift
Face lift. More like you're doing a spinal replacement surgery!
Uhm, probably. But there's more on the list, already had a chat with @KOOLER's sales guys
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Can't wait for tomorrow. Will order a bunch of UBNT EdgeMax switches, AC Pro APs and and an EdgeRouter Infinity. Complete network revamp.
@JaredBusch brow beat me into not ordering AC Pros - they really didn't' make sense for my environment. Saved me over $500.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Can't wait for tomorrow. Will order a bunch of UBNT EdgeMax switches, AC Pro APs and and an EdgeRouter Infinity. Complete network revamp.
@JaredBusch brow beat me into not ordering AC Pros - they really didn't' make sense for my environment. Saved me over $500.
In favor of? AC Lite?
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Can't wait for tomorrow. Will order a bunch of UBNT EdgeMax switches, AC Pro APs and and an EdgeRouter Infinity. Complete network revamp.
@JaredBusch brow beat me into not ordering AC Pros - they really didn't' make sense for my environment. Saved me over $500.
In favor of? AC Lite?
yes, UAP AC Lite. Maxes at 800 Mb/s vs 1.2 Gb/s but my switches max at 1 Gb/s and I have very little need for 1.2 Gb/s inhouse to local servers.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Can't wait for tomorrow. Will order a bunch of UBNT EdgeMax switches, AC Pro APs and and an EdgeRouter Infinity. Complete network revamp.
@JaredBusch brow beat me into not ordering AC Pros - they really didn't' make sense for my environment. Saved me over $500.
In favor of? AC Lite?
yes, UAP AC Lite. Maxes at 800 Mb/s vs 1.2 Gb/s but my switches max at 1 Gb/s and I have very little need for 1.2 Gb/s inhouse to local servers.
I see what you mean, and already thought so too. It's just dedicated budget that would be lost otherwise and we want to try some things with high bandwith streaming.
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Building a PBX.
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its the 3:00 pm slump but I can't afford to be lazy since I'm putting out fires. Thankfully it activated my trap card, "time for coffee".
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Leaving in 22 minutes. We are randomly playing D&D tonight because someone can't make it later on in the week. I am very tired. My RP may be weak tonight.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Can't wait for tomorrow. Will order a bunch of UBNT EdgeMax switches, AC Pro APs and and an EdgeRouter Infinity. Complete network revamp.
@JaredBusch brow beat me into not ordering AC Pros - they really didn't' make sense for my environment. Saved me over $500.
In favor of? AC Lite?
yes, UAP AC Lite. Maxes at 800 Mb/s vs 1.2 Gb/s but my switches max at 1 Gb/s and I have very little need for 1.2 Gb/s inhouse to local servers.
I see what you mean, and already thought so too. It's just dedicated budget that would be lost otherwise
Stop right there - as IT, it's our job to do what's right for the business, which is always saving money.
and we want to try some things with high bandwith streaming.
Now with this, OK, if this extra bandwidth is actually useful (where are you streaming from? will it not be saturated before this pipe is?), then sure, the extra spend is worthwhile.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Can't wait for tomorrow. Will order a bunch of UBNT EdgeMax switches, AC Pro APs and and an EdgeRouter Infinity. Complete network revamp.
@JaredBusch brow beat me into not ordering AC Pros - they really didn't' make sense for my environment. Saved me over $500.
In favor of? AC Lite?
yes, UAP AC Lite. Maxes at 800 Mb/s vs 1.2 Gb/s but my switches max at 1 Gb/s and I have very little need for 1.2 Gb/s inhouse to local servers.
I see what you mean, and already thought so too. It's just dedicated budget that would be lost otherwise
Stop right there - as IT, it's our job to do what's right for the business, which is always saving money.
Ever worked in the same sector? It's all or nothing.
and we want to try some things with high bandwith streaming.
Now with this, OK, if this extra bandwidth is actually useful (where are you streaming from? will it not be saturated before this pipe is?), then sure, the extra spend is worthwhile.
The pipe can't deliver the full bandwith, but we may be able to saturate 1GBit/s. The source does not exist yet. -
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ever worked in the same sector? It's all or nothing.
I don't follow - if you don't spend all of your budget, they will slash the budget to zero the next year? Wow - those people clearly don't know how to run a business.
As many issues as I have with our budget process, at least it's got non of the spend it or loose it issues.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ever worked in the same sector? It's all or nothing.
I don't follow - if you don't spend all of your budget, they will slash the budget to zero the next year? Wow - those people clearly don't know how to run a business.
As many issues as I have with our budget process, at least it's got non of the spend it or loose it issues.
It just a dedicated small budget for this specific purpose.
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@dashrender What happens: you dont spend all your budget, your budget is reduced to what you did spend. You dont spend all that, your budget is reduced. Then you actually need money to do something, and you dont have enough budget.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ever worked in the same sector? It's all or nothing.
I don't follow - if you don't spend all of your budget, they will slash the budget to zero the next year? Wow - those people clearly don't know how to run a business.
As many issues as I have with our budget process, at least it's got non of the spend it or loose it issues.
Plus there's still a benefit in using the AC Pro's vs AC Lite. 20% more usable bandwith, in theory.
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@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender What happens: you dont spend all your budget, your budget is reduced to what you did spend. You dont spend all that, your budget is reduced. Then you actually need money to do something, and you dont have enough budget.
And that is just a crazy way for any company to exist. There are years of eff and flow.
I have a great example for you. I have 80 laptops, at least 40 of them are 3 years old, 30 of them are 4+ and the rest are younger than 2. I am prepping my boss to spend replacement for 50 laptops next year since 40 will be 4+ and 30 will be 5+... but - we will only replace them as they fail. So we might get lucky and not spend one penny on them.
So you're telling me that since I didn't waste money and replace them early, before they needed replacing... that I won't be able to replace them next year if they fail? ridiculous.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ever worked in the same sector? It's all or nothing.
I don't follow - if you don't spend all of your budget, they will slash the budget to zero the next year? Wow - those people clearly don't know how to run a business.
As many issues as I have with our budget process, at least it's got non of the spend it or loose it issues.
Plus there's still a benefit in using the AC Pro's vs AC Lite. 20% more usable bandwith, in theory.
And I already said - IF the 20% additional bandwidth is usable, then by all means - buy them if they make sense. But don't buy them just because - that's a waste of money. If you were a public company (maybe you are) that would be financial recklessness - the shareholders could sue for waste (granted this is so small in the grand scheme they'd never know).. .but you see my point I hope.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ever worked in the same sector? It's all or nothing.
I don't follow - if you don't spend all of your budget, they will slash the budget to zero the next year? Wow - those people clearly don't know how to run a business.
As many issues as I have with our budget process, at least it's got non of the spend it or loose it issues.
Plus there's still a benefit in using the AC Pro's vs AC Lite. 20% more usable bandwith, in theory.
And I already said - IF the 20% additional bandwidth is usable, then by all means - buy them if they make sense. But don't buy them just because - that's a waste of money. If you were a public company (maybe you are) that would be financial recklessness - the shareholders could sue for waste (granted this is so small in the grand scheme they'd never know).. .but you see my point I hope.
Sure, I do see your point. Public EDU, btw. In every other case I would have ordered the AC LITE, but like I said, there's a valid - albeit small - use case. Just big enough to justify the Pro instead of the LITE.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So you're telling me that since I didn't waste money and replace them early, before they needed replacing... that I won't be able to replace them next year if they fail? ridiculous.
That's reality mate. Not good, not what I like, but it's a real thing.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So you're telling me that since I didn't waste money and replace them early, before they needed replacing... that I won't be able to replace them next year if they fail? ridiculous.
That's reality mate. Not good, not what I like, but it's a real thing.
Well, we know corruption when we see it, don't we?
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So you're telling me that since I didn't waste money and replace them early, before they needed replacing... that I won't be able to replace them next year if they fail? ridiculous.
That's reality mate. Not good, not what I like, but it's a real thing.
Well, we know corruption when we see it, don't we?
Corruption? No. It's more about how your financial department runs your business. We're in fact controlled by two other gov agencies to avoid anything unnecessary or unjustified.
