I was playing guitar anyway...

This must be a "licensing" model of control. There are 2 options:

1. You can attach a chunk of storage up to 1TB. It's your storage, so backup whatever you want as many times as you want, up to filling that 1TB.

2. You are "licensed" for 1TB, so no matter what you attach in terms of storage capacity, you can only protect up to 1TB of source data. So, if you attach 10TB of storage, you can get lots of retention for your 1TB of data protected.

If "source data" is the answer, it has to be option 2.

@nadnerB no, but I do have a large coffee cup, and it was pretty full.

Read the release article. The Unitrends Free is specifically for virtual. Zero mention of protecting physical servers. It's a free product with limitations. When you buy an appliance, physical or virtual, you can back up all of the above. When you go free, you can do what they're giving you for free.

Keep it up and I'm gonna have to moderate. lol Gross.

I almost hate to resurrect an ancient topic, but all of these issues have been resolved, and I would be amiss to not do a post-mortem on the whole resolution.

I think some of the problems with call quality went away, but there was still a lot of trouble with outgoing calls failing (mostly in the afternoon). What we came to realize was that Vitelity (SIP provider) required, but never stated, that it was necessary to have separate trunks set up for inbound and outbound calls. While their site provided the inbound PEER info, there was no posted settings (at least, that any of us could find) dictating the outbound call trunk configuration.

What was happening was that any outbound packets were being de-prioritized to guarantee inbound traffic. From the logs, you just saw that the call went out and got refused by their SIP server. We ended up working with support to learn that we needed an outbound trunk. After setting up the trunk (guessing; they gave us no details) and having the problem persist, we were finally able to give them the trunk settings, which they looked at and said "oh, this isn't correct" and gave us the right configuration. Suddenly, all of our troubles vanished.

I was unaware that certain SIP providers require a trunk for inbound and also outbound traffic.

There was also a secondary issue, which may have played into the latency that was experienced. This has also since been resolved. We had a bottleneck inside the LAN, as a group of switches for all of the users was connected to the "servers" switch, where the PBX lives, with a single 1gbit connection, as well as the gateway connection. Old switches (un-stackable) and physical location had a bit to do with the layout. Once we upgraded to a stack of Netgear S3300's and included the gateway, servers, and users in the "stack", the latency disappeared.

I'm confused. What's the point of being a moderator, if you can't wield that power to quell dissent?

Rails up close, and finally, in the rack!

@brianlittlejohn Congrats. You just inspired a whole lot of geeks to do a whole lot of "less than ethical" things.

I am currently in charge of recommending a complete Wi-Fi set up for a large, brand new manufacturing facility, and I'm in a little deeper than my experience finds comfortable. Of course, I know I can reach out to community here for some good experience, reviews, and recommendations. We all know how bashful the IT crowd can be when it comes to sharing opinions, but don't be afraid...

So, here's the basic scenario. "We want Wi-Fi coverage everywhere." This is a large "L"-shaped building, with a main corridor of about 600' 100', with a 35' ceiling. There are no obstructing walls in this part. The other leg of the "L" is about 200' long, 150' wide, and has closer to 25' ceilings, with a mostly open layout, but a few "wall" panels. Most of it is open space, but the section of "wall" has a few points that go floor-to-ceiling, but mostly large openings with a little wall left above the openings. There is currently no hardware in place, nor wiring, so this is a blank slate. A small utility room at the crotch of the "L" will house the main switch for the network (1Gbit fiber linked to the main building, across the parking lot). About halfway down the long leg is another small room that will house a second switch, keeping the longest runs under 300'. There is also a minor concern that welding and CNC machinery could run on frequencies that might interfere with wireless signal, though it's unconfirmed and not necessarily anticipated. We just want to be cautious, in case it's an issue.

The question is 3-fold. 1) What brands/models would be a good fit for this application, and why? 2) Is there a group of devices that can somehow adjust to use different frequencies, or are we limited to 2.4GHz/5GHz? 3) How many AP's would this space require? What is the realistic range (3D) and also ease of management for the suggested devices?

Thanks a lot, all. Let the ideas commence...

I got a flat tire, so obviously the guy who put the new spark plugs in last summer did something to the tire...

@scottalanmiller said:

Server Current is the force of the flowing servers in the computational stream.

Don't try to answer electrical questions with IT answers. lol

Being "in-season", that's probably a good price. I buy off-season and spend about the same for high-quality pellets, and they get delivered to my door.

"Be smart and put on this hat instead of the usual one."
By "the usual one", are the referring to the tin foil one, showing how much more comfy it is over its predecessor?

This smacks of a Dogbert scheme...

@dafyre said in A Mandate to Be Cheap:

@Dashrender said in A Mandate to Be Cheap:

@dafyre said in A Mandate to Be Cheap:

This was prevalent for a number of years at my job... As I was leaving, it did not seem to be quite as large of a problem.

Why is it a problem at all? As long as everyone knows who is the IT decision maker, that's all that matters. That's the person you (I dislike saying this) blame when things don't work because of some decision that was made.

Because of the political culture there, they were often trying to blame IT for bad decisions that were made over our head.

...because that never happens

@MattSpeller Where have you been? This thread has your stink all over it!

Take it to the Apple Store? As much as we all like to self-diagnose and repair, Apple kind of limits the ability to do much of that with their devices.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Nic said:

They do have an alternate sport that is like battlebots where the drones fly in a cage and the last one flying wins. I don't know if they allow projectile weapons though, or just disabling through contact.

Make a faraday cage and deploy a tiny nuclear device to get a huge EM pulse. Instant kill.

You can generate an EMP quite cheaply, without the need for a nuke...

3. Uninstalling KB3213986 and resume gaming.