Spent most of the day cleaning up and re-arranging my "office". I can see my desk again!

@JaredBusch example also is great for home use if you have IoT devices. I have an ERL behind a cable modem and this keeps everything I want separated from my normal LAN.

At one of my clients we installed SFP+ cards in a group of Hyper-V hosts a few years ago. It was worth the extra cost IMO.

My reasons for a low-end switch with SFP ports was also due to warranty. Most of the stand-alone media converters have a 1 year warranty. I can get Netgear, D-Link, etc with a Lifetime Warranty. Made sense in my application.

I've had good luck with Allied-Telesis and Transition Networks. Last time I did a project where I needed to convert - I just used a cheap D-Link or Netgear switch on each end with SFP ports. Have some still deployed going on 4 years now and no issues. This was used to deliver service to a fuel station and isolate it.

@travisdh1 I did that a few months ago too... Luckily I ran a backup job minutes before. Was able to restore. I was so mad at myself. Lesson learned.

The Netgear have been good units and a lot cheaper than Cradlepoint.

I use it all the time on my iPhone when I have poor service. Works great for me.

Fighting with an Avaya IP Office system.

I read some other threads and posts first because I remembered this came up a while back. I am also going to assume Yealink for phones? Any particular models to stay away from?

I know it is possible to hang a phone directly off of voip.ms or [insert provider] but.... I have a recent customer that has 2 POTS lines at his office. He is retiring soon and wants to have the calls ring at his office and at his home which is in another town. If I port both lines to a SIP provider, will it work to have 2 phones connected to the same account and have both DIDs ring simultaneously to both phones? I could put a PBX in Vultr but that seems overkill. Very low call volume. There is only 1 user and 2 phones. There is a solid WAN connection at both locations. There would be no growth or adding lines as it is a 1 man shop. I know RingCentral would be a solution but it seems there may be alternatives.

darksky.net is a good weather site and no ads, videos, etc. Very clean interface.

I tried a Samsung a couple years ago after being a long time iPhone user. The battery life was horrible and the "volume warning" whenever you had anything plugged into the headphone jack drove me nuts. I took it back within the 15 day return window and went back to the iPhone. I too feel that it does everything I have ever needed it to do.

I downloaded OBS last week but now my camera has gone missing. Hoping to dive into it soon and make a useful video.

I have upgraded approx 20 Win7 Pro machines to Win10 Pro in the past couple of months - 2 last week in fact. They all accepted the Win 7 product key and show that Windows is activated with a digital license. Zero issues.

I had to laugh about it. Last year I got dinged for not blocking github and the similar sites. This time they tell me I can go on github and get a piece of software that will compare my firewall config and detect any changes. The logic makes ZERO sense.

We had an IT and Security audit last week. Guess what the auditor was sporting... A Lenovo laptop!

Dealing with this now as well. Don't forget bandwidth when everything is offsite. A lot of folks I deal with cannot get a decent amount of bandwidth or at a reasonable price. Some people refuse to work with files in a browser. So many variables.

@pmoncho This is the exact reason my kids had their own devices from early on.