What Are You Doing Right Now
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@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Contemplating how to leverage 2 ISP's for supplemental bandwidth when needed using 2 separate routers that are both servicing the same LAN.
......So I'm gonna go post a new topic!
Saw the post. It's not a fun thing. What I did when I had this was I just separated things by machine. Some machines used one connection and some the other based on their workloads. It was "static" but let me use both.
You described basically what I want to do. For general user media consumption (YouTube, Facebook, Amazon shopping etc.) it can just be shipped out the Spectrum cable connection. But for my servers I more or less want those bound to the WAN with static IP. However, my static WAN has slower download speeds than the Spectrum cable. (Static WAN is 50Mbps up and down, Spectrum is 300Mbps down). So when it's time to do a giant update or download new ISOs or whatever, the 300Mbps makes a big difference in time spent waiting.
Separating things at each machine that needs the static WAN by giving them static DGW's is worthwhile for me, but it would be nice to have some load balancing intelligence happening so that large downloads come in through the fast pipe no matter the machine.
I've set up a LANcache for my Steam library which helps a lot for 130gig games and whatever. But when there's a 3-4gig update that isn't cached, the request is sent out the client machine's DGW. I think there's a way to do "Split Horizon" or something so I can setup a couple lists of domains that get allocated to one Gateway or another. Like one list of domain/hosts would be like the known Linux repo hosts would definitely be piped over to the fast download cable. But any requests for say some Linode hosted VPS's I'd want trafficked out the slower static pipe.
Yeah, I still haven't made a decision one way or the other and still have them operating with separate LAN's lol! Full disclosure, I enjoy the relationship between my a** and my couch way too much to be bothered. Potato chips not required but quite frequently present. That's just truly my happy place. So the idea of having to bend over to move a cable or something to get all this setup like I want is just a total buzzkill 99% of the time. But that's the key. 99% of the time. Not 100%. So.... someday. Someday....
Realistically for what you want to do you need a router that understands the traffic and is dividing it up. DNS or split horizon can't do the job. Dividing traffic along paths is actually quite difficult. Especially once you add encryption on the traffic.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Contemplating how to leverage 2 ISP's for supplemental bandwidth when needed using 2 separate routers that are both servicing the same LAN.
......So I'm gonna go post a new topic!
Saw the post. It's not a fun thing. What I did when I had this was I just separated things by machine. Some machines used one connection and some the other based on their workloads. It was "static" but let me use both.
You described basically what I want to do. For general user media consumption (YouTube, Facebook, Amazon shopping etc.) it can just be shipped out the Spectrum cable connection. But for my servers I more or less want those bound to the WAN with static IP. However, my static WAN has slower download speeds than the Spectrum cable. (Static WAN is 50Mbps up and down, Spectrum is 300Mbps down). So when it's time to do a giant update or download new ISOs or whatever, the 300Mbps makes a big difference in time spent waiting.
Separating things at each machine that needs the static WAN by giving them static DGW's is worthwhile for me, but it would be nice to have some load balancing intelligence happening so that large downloads come in through the fast pipe no matter the machine.
I've set up a LANcache for my Steam library which helps a lot for 130gig games and whatever. But when there's a 3-4gig update that isn't cached, the request is sent out the client machine's DGW. I think there's a way to do "Split Horizon" or something so I can setup a couple lists of domains that get allocated to one Gateway or another. Like one list of domain/hosts would be like the known Linux repo hosts would definitely be piped over to the fast download cable. But any requests for say some Linode hosted VPS's I'd want trafficked out the slower static pipe.
Yeah, I still haven't made a decision one way or the other and still have them operating with separate LAN's lol! Full disclosure, I enjoy the relationship between my a** and my couch way too much to be bothered. Potato chips not required but quite frequently present. That's just truly my happy place. So the idea of having to bend over to move a cable or something to get all this setup like I want is just a total buzzkill 99% of the time. But that's the key. 99% of the time. Not 100%. So.... someday. Someday....
Realistically for what you want to do you need a router that understands the traffic and is dividing it up. DNS or split horizon can't do the job. Dividing traffic along paths is actually quite difficult. Especially once you add encryption on the traffic.
That is the one and only reason VMWare bought Velocloud, and also the only reason to use their SD-WAN device. They can route traffic to different WAN connections based on pre-defined rules. You can have latency dependent streams (Zoom, SIP, etc) routed differently than "bulk" streams (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc).
Just hope you never have to contact support.
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Remember that Eli the Computer Guy that ran scams on Spiceworks a number of years ago? He has this massive YouTube channel with over a million subscribers and whatever. He partnered with Spiceworks but gave anti-IT advice (I can't remember details, but he wasn't technical and was just there to sell whatever.) Anyway... my youtube channel passed his this month! woot woot
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Giving the band's new video the final polish... Tighten up the audio fades, color correction, credits, and we're DONE!!! Stay tuned for the world premiere of SONIC SPECULUM'S 1st ever, no-budget, rock music video YouTube!!!!!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyway... my youtube channel passed his this month! woot woot
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samitchannel? Been like a year since your last video hasn't it? -
Finally making time to work on some videos.
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@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyway... my youtube channel passed his this month! woot woot
The
samitchannel? Been like a year since your last video hasn't it?No, the Scott Alan Miller vlog. My big one.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Remember that Eli the Computer Guy that ran scams on Spiceworks a number of years ago? He has this massive YouTube channel with over a million subscribers and whatever. He partnered with Spiceworks but gave anti-IT advice (I can't remember details, but he wasn't technical and was just there to sell whatever.) Anyway... my youtube channel passed his this month! woot woot
I only ever knew of Eli The Computer Guy from his harrassing Louis Rossmann incessantly for some period of time. He was basically preaching to Louis that he should stop running a repair shop and just do YouTube, and therefore "live a better, more adventurous and luxurious life like he does" or whatever. LOL He apparently thinks he REALLY knows what's best! heh! XD
(movie trope) "Ah don't want... yor lahf"
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyway... my youtube channel passed his this month! woot woot
The
samitchannel? Been like a year since your last video hasn't it?No, the Scott Alan Miller vlog. My big one.
Oh. In which aspect did yours pass his channel, # of videos, rating?
I had to look it up... shows his channel having:
- over 1M subscribers
- nearly 800 videos
- over 84M views
And yours:
- over 7.6K subscribers
- nearly 3.4k videos
- over 2M views
That's awesome though, hoping yours keeps growing, I enjoy it! Keep it up!
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Revisiting an old haunt to say hello
Hope y'all are doing awesome, greetings from the great white north.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Revisiting an old haunt to say hello
Hope y'all are doing awesome, greetings from the great white north.
OMG been a while, how are you?
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I'm been on a media creation splurge this week. So busy, but lots of good stuff happening.
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Practicing Ansible Automation Platform installation scenarios.
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Just got done removing a cage section in the datacenter for an equipment move this morning.
Next up, new circuit turnups for customers.
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The forums are alive!
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@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The forums are alive!
Yup, at lesat a little bit, jaja.
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It was high time to bring this back to the top..
Been actually taking some time to work the radio the last two weeks. Amateur Radio can be interesting and a challenge. The main thing I join in is the ARRL Field Day which is in June,.. but been keeping the radio warm the last week..
Have successfully worked from Australia and Japan to France and the Netherlands. I've never been to successful with reading that map,.. but I believe each balloon with time is where I am heard and how long ago.
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Red Hat EX467 exam prep
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Been a while! Back from being completely swamped.
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Crazy outage today, eh?
