Best posts made by jt1001001

Our CEO got his dishy last week all set up and running; average 20ms latency, think he said 180 mbps down 20 mbps up last he tested.

@scottalanmiller I will be glad when this month is over as we're decomissioning our "free" ESXI server and going to absolutely nothing (yea cloud!!)
The box will be converted to a ProxMox host mostly for local lab/demo purposes

@scottalanmiller and I got another old server here...hmmm...XS off usb? Would do ESXi but been there already

I am in a meeting but I found a physical XP system with 2010 client stil on it (don't ask). Let me know if you need testing still and I can be available sometime today.

I never use Spiceworks at all but threw my $0.02 in hope it helps!

@Minion-Queen Agreement here. ugh my worst day of the calendar year.

Need Coffee.. Took me a bit

@dafyre If it was 100% up to me, Xbyte and done, but higher ups want more options/choice/excuses to put off spending$$ (more "paperwork", more for them to mull through you probably know the drill)

We alo get requests for specific vendors from our customers, which I have no control over. They want an HPE server, we have to quote an HPE server

Also looking to get some more experience on other hardware out there. For Example, Dell I've used iDRAC, would like to get familiar with HPE iLO as well.

Might cross each other on the way back as we will be heading out for our family epic road adventure on the 26th to Roanoke VA

Fios is in Some areas of Buffalo, NY. It is limited within the city boundaries (I think North Buffalo only??), and in some suburbs. I have 25/25 at my house in Amherst, our HQ in Tonawanda I just ordered 150/150 for, but one "burb over FiOS is not available.

So, wife and kids are going away this weekend. House is MINE for a whole 2 days. What should I do? Landscaping? Geek Projects? Decisions Decisions...

Did you check the client for viruses/rootkits? Had a similar issue where I was getting a public IP return when querying an internal DNS name; turns out the PC had a DNS hijack virus/rootkit on it returning all sort of odd results.

I have a set of Insignia wireless speakers (Best Buy house brand as well) and agree with @MattSpeller they are horrible. Not much power which for regular viewing is OK but in a movie situation where we have the volume up a bit, yeah not good. SO this weekend got permission to run wire and drill very small ("i better not see them") wires for the surrounds. Fortunate for me I can go in the basement and its a straight shot don't have to go through any joists.

I had something similar where I P2V a Dell server first to VmWare, then over to HyperV. Worked on VmWare, but Hyperv gave the STOP error. If I remember correctly the dell PERC driver was still installed on the 2003 box, and after the second conversion I had to hop in there and get rid of it, then tweak the boot.ini. I wish I could remember the exact way I did it.

Well if I start now, I might actually get done when they come back, because of course if I'm posting on here is any cleaning really getting done?

Just before my second son came along, I was playing with a ham project called HSMM-MESH. http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/. We got it working with some of the older Ubiquiti Bullet style devices and one WRT54g router that was the "main" (if you will) unit for Field Day back 2 years ago. Sadly I have not kept up on the project and sold all my gear as it was collecting dust so it may be a dead product now. There is a more updated fork called Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network that I have not followed but does use Ubiquiti gear. http://www.aredn.org/

Endulging in my other hobby as I get to "play" on Sunday and do a little amateur radio. Rest of the weekend is keeping the kids away from what will be freshly painted walls

Can you use a Serial to IP converter of some sort? I did this with an old Digi Port server I had laying around and their software under Hyper V for a 2003 server we needed a serial port on and it worked for what we needed at the time

@scottalanmiller Passed through Buffalo about an hour ago. lights flickered, UPS tripped for a moment and then all back to normal.

I actually found my original notes on the project at the time. This was the site I referenced and amazingly it is still posted!:
http://svintinner.blogspot.com/2008/09/adding-serial-port-to-vm-on-esxi.html.
My difference was I used a real digi 8 port Terminal adapter but it supported the real port divers