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think of streaming as your giant DVR. that you've already recorded all sorts of stuff that you didn't know about. maybe you were drunk and said "record it all" and it listened?

DVR is only needed if you've got some source of "live" programming. if you go streaming, it's streaming. dig?

binoculars and a neighbor with a large window?

waiting on iphone 7

oh, then there's VPLS

okay, i'm good at making things easy cause i'm dumb. so here you go!

MPLS = a service you buy from 1 ISP(same vendor). The ISP provides you with routers, and all of the infrastructure at each location. When it's finished your sites can all talk to eachother.

Site 2 Site VPN - this is where you or someone on your team has to know their stuff. you have to have internet at each location (vendor isn't important). You then will provide your own router/firewall at each location, configured (usually IPSEC) by you or your networking guy. The routers then use the internet and your configuration to create a secure tunnel between the two sites, when you're said and done the sites work together without any more interaction from you.

Benefits
MPLS is managed by someone else, you don't have to muck with it just monitor. this is good and bad. If their customer and quality of service are high this is great. If it's not high...you're gonna be bummed out when/if bad things happen. MPLS will more than likely have lower latency because you've got dedicated copper for the most part.

S2S VPN is usually less expensive, and if your sites are geographicly seperate, you can use different vendors for your internet connection at each site. Just make sure your bandwidth is similar on each end.

Negatives
MPLS is not gonna be cheap, but you're paying for a service that you shouldn't have to manage, configure, etc. and it's a dedicated service

S2S is going to be slower in my experience, you have to manage your routing equipment (not really a negative), more latency in my experience.

I'm tired now

contract worker

you can run it under my biz nader and i can 1099 you if you'd like.

fixing some fools server setup.

Correct

I dont have one of these...yet.... I had a dropcam....but paying for the wan-recording and inability to link it to a local nas or whatever killed it for me. also...it was a bandwidth whore I've looked at ring. it seems kewl.

@dafyre will be able to help you when he comes online. AD is pretty tricky when using ZT according to him. It's not bad if you're standing up a new AD if i remember correctly.

ecobee that's the one with the "remote" sensors. if it had been out when i bought my nest a year or two ago, i would have probly bought it.

we have it on our downstairs unit. 2700 sq.ft house. I think it's a 5or6 ton unit. living room has 20' ceilings, it's in a small "hallway" under the stairs, to the right is a bathroom, left is storage under stairs. keeps downstairs pretty consistent through rooms. It would be nice if there were little room units you could plug into say an outlet that would register that rooms temp/humidity/etc. I think one of the smart thermostat companies do that already.

I love my nest.... the auto-schedule auto home/away situation is nice. not sure if we save money or not.... I like having an app for my thermostat and also to know that if i leave the air on when i leave, it will detect that and shut her down eventually.

i prefer google hangouts the one thing about google+ that i like.

maybe it's sleepy? partied too hard last night?

for giggles have you tried changing dns on a workstation there to google or open dns and see if anything changes?