Posts made by quicky2g

@wrx7m said:

@dafyre Really? I just paid about 60 bucks for annual maintenance. Seems to be cheaper than the pro version of mobaxterm.

Haven't looked at the pro version but what do you get extra that's useful?

@scottalanmiller said:

@quicky2g said:

I like Bitvise for the server side port forwarding abilities. Awesome that you can force port forwarding from the server side.

How is that different from Putty?

Putty is only client side. Bitvise server I can force port forwarding on any client that connects or per username. Can also pre-configure SFTP mappings on the server side. So if I'm away from my laptop and using a different computer I just have to login and get all my port forward and SFTP mappings without manually configuring them on the client side.

@Dashrender said:

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@Dashrender said:

Ease of use and channel selection is why I haven't left cable yet.

Those are exactly the reasons I don't have cable/satellite anymore.

it wasn't easy to use?

Not really. Content was very hard to find when I wanted it, there were these loud intermissions on every channel every few minutes. Not easy to use at all. Much less so then clicking a button and instantly having the content you want without crazy loud breaks.

So you have a legal way to get shows anywhere near original release date without those loud breaks?

Why would I want to watch them near their release date? That just seems silly to have to wait a week for an episode... if I just wait a few months I can watch the entire season as I want to much more enjoyable that way.

So no water cooler talk for you then.

I'm not sure I see the appeal.

I'd probably lose my shit if everyone ruined Walking Dead episodes for me Monday morning lol.

Plus 1000!

Glen died???! WWWWHHHHAAAATTTTT???!!!!!

Can you imagine....? lol

No because I don't watch that show - but the idea I absolutely agree with.

My friend ruined The Matrx for me because he felt that you living in a computer generated world wasn't that big a deal to the movie... lol
I almost killed him

Death by head through a computer screen

@Dashrender said:

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@coliver said:

@Dashrender said:

@coliver said:

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@coliver said:

@Dashrender said:

@coliver said:

@Dashrender said:

Ease of use and channel selection is why I haven't left cable yet.

Those are exactly the reasons I don't have cable/satellite anymore.

it wasn't easy to use?

Not really. Content was very hard to find when I wanted it, there were these loud intermissions on every channel every few minutes. Not easy to use at all. Much less so then clicking a button and instantly having the content you want without crazy loud breaks.

So you have a legal way to get shows anywhere near original release date without those loud breaks?

Why would I want to watch them near their release date? That just seems silly to have to wait a week for an episode... if I just wait a few months I can watch the entire season as I want to much more enjoyable that way.

So no water cooler talk for you then.

I'm not sure I see the appeal.

I'd probably lose my shit if everyone ruined Walking Dead episodes for me Monday morning lol.

Plus 1000!

Glen died???! WWWWHHHHAAAATTTTT???!!!!!

Can you imagine....? lol

@coliver said:

@Dashrender said:

@coliver said:

@Dashrender said:

@coliver said:

@Dashrender said:

@coliver said:

@Dashrender said:

Ease of use and channel selection is why I haven't left cable yet.

Those are exactly the reasons I don't have cable/satellite anymore.

it wasn't easy to use?

Not really. Content was very hard to find when I wanted it, there were these loud intermissions on every channel every few minutes. Not easy to use at all. Much less so then clicking a button and instantly having the content you want without crazy loud breaks.

So you have a legal way to get shows anywhere near original release date without those loud breaks?

Why would I want to watch them near their release date? That just seems silly to have to wait a week for an episode... if I just wait a few months I can watch the entire season as I want to much more enjoyable that way.

So no water cooler talk for you then.

I'm not sure I see the appeal.

I'd probably lose my shit if everyone ruined Walking Dead episodes for me Monday morning lol.

@scottalanmiller said:

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@dafyre said:

Roku 3+ SlingTV ($25 a month for a few channels + Disney, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang) + Netflix + Hulu + Amazon = Win.

I don't count Netflix or Hulu since we were already paying for those...

Our Cable + Internet Bill went from $130 a month to $65 a month for Internet + SingTV.

How have I not heard of SlingTV?! Will definitely have to try it out. Any ideas for a DVR?

I've never had a DVR. What purpose would it serve once you drop cable?

Can't always catch shows live and want to watch them after...Bar Rescue, Ink Master, Property Brothers, Big Bang Theory, etc. Can probably "obtain" some if not all of that stuff online but need it to be easy to use and manage for the misses. Something like Hulu would be a good DVR replacement so I can grab stuff on demand but they don't have everything I want.

@dafyre said:

Roku 3+ SlingTV ($25 a month for a few channels + Disney, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang) + Netflix + Hulu + Amazon = Win.

I don't count Netflix or Hulu since we were already paying for those...

Our Cable + Internet Bill went from $130 a month to $65 a month for Internet + SingTV.

How have I not heard of SlingTV?! Will definitely have to try it out. Any ideas for a DVR?

@hubtechagain said:

binoculars and a neighbor with a large window?

Wish I could double upvote your response. ++1

@dafyre said:

@quicky2g -- Those are some good numbers to see. It is important to note that if two ZT devices are on the same network subnet, then ZT will communicate directly over the LAN (the traffic will never leave your network). That's likely the reason for the good speeds.

Also are you doing your WAN test with UDP or TCP? (I think with UDP, you could see the higher rates, as UDP doesn't have to confirm delivery of the data).

Wasn't sure if iPerf used TCP or UDP as default so had to check in Wireshark. Looks like TCP is default. Makes sense that UDP would get better results but have never been able to find a different combo of options for iPerf that got me better results. Anyone else use iPerf?

I keep getting questions from people about replacing TV/DVR service with something streaming based to lower monthly bills. I'd love to do the same thing since I'm paying TWC $165/month for a DVR and internet, but just can't find the right magic combo.

Roku and Amazon Fire TV both seem like pretty solid streaming players and I'm sure there are a few other solid ones out there, but the content is the bigger issue. Netflix is always way behind on TV shows (Walking Dead for example), Hulu doesn't get the greatest quality sometimes and they don't have everything. Amazon doesn't have everything either. Have seen a few companies streaming live TV channels but not enough of them and usually not 1080p.

Have also seen the cable tuner cards you can shove into the back of a computer and use Windows Media Center for your TV. This might be the lesser of all evils, but I have to make it semi-user friendly for the misses and she's used to a remote with channel up/down buttons smh...

Seems like big business is locking us TV junkies into buying their overpriced service and hardware. Anyone got ideas?

@dafyre said:

@Dashrender said:

Something seems flawed with the test - shouldn't doing speed test with compressible data.

True. I haven't seen similar results, although a thought just hit me.

@quicky2g -- Were you running this test on ZeroTier to another device that is connected to the same physical lan?

(IE: Two ZeroTier devices in the same building?)

Was going across a WAN.

When I did a LAN test between 2 devices on the same Gigabit switch I also got better results than Hamachi and almost as good as LAN IP's.

Gig LAN iPerf (Regular LAN IP’s):

Hamachi LAN iPerf:

ZeroTier LAN iPerf:

I like Bitvise for the server side port forwarding abilities. Awesome that you can force port forwarding from the server side. Client side SFTP server is nice too. Server side is licensed.

I use MobaXTerm for networking stuff. Love that you can open 4 windows in a quad tile format and enter the same commands on everything at the same time. Great for standard switch configs. Also love the SSHPass addon so you can have 1 line in your up arrow buffer and easily jump between multiple devices without prompting to accept keys, ask for username or ask for password:

sshpass -p 'MyPassword' ssh -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no [email protected]

SNMPv3 SSL nonsense has always been a pain for me on Windows. Super easy addon in MobaXTerm.

Surprised no one mentioned Tera Term. I think it's licensed. Have seen a few people use it for the scripting abilities.

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@marcinozga said:

My contract is up for renewal this March, so I'll be getting new iPhone then. Wife will get 6S or 6S plus, I'm hoping Apple releases 6C by then. I hate big screen phones.

I'm surprised how much I disliked big screen phones before I had one and how dependent I am on it now. Coworker had a 4inch iPhone that I got my hands on yesterday and felt like I was in the stone age.

My beef with big screens is that it's too big for my pockets, and too big to use with one hand. Big screens are perfect for ladies carrying the phone in a purse, I'm a pocket guy.

Get pants with bigger pockets. -- or use a Belt clip. I started out with my first cell phone being a belt clip phone (Motorola StarTac), and have since gone either way. I like belt clips right now.

http://www.scottevest.com/ Phone Drop

I loved my Scottevest hoodie, wore it through most of college. You could stuff a water bottle, tablet, smartphone, keys, and about 20 other things in those pockets and still looks like you were carrying nothing at all.

How have I never heard of those. I definitely need to get one.

Same here. Why aren't these things in James Bond or Mission Impossible movies?!

@travisdh1 said:

@dafyre said:

@travisdh1 said:

I'm really liking how easy it is to setup. Just want to see some security review by a trusted security person before I go ahead and roll it out. Anyone seen a review on it from someone like Steve Gibson, Brian Krebs, or the like?

If you haven't read up in the FAQ yet, check it out here: https://www.zerotier.com/tech_faq.shtml -- especially the security section.

What kind of use case are you seeing for it?

I've got two locations, one with the worst "high-speed" internet you're likely to find outside of satellite (good riddance to satellite!) 1 vm host and 1 backup target at each location. Ether XenServer or ProxMox running on the servers. I'm thinking I'll be able to manage most things at both sites with a jumpbox vm. Maybe even make xrdp available as well, tho that would be painful with the DSL connection (756kb/250kb actual measured 600kb/300kb.)

ZeroTier must use some kind of compression so might help with your speed issues. I have 5mbps upload at home. Did an upload test with iPerf between my house and my work office and saw 5mbps with Hamachi:

Did the same test with ZeroTier between the same endpoints:

@marcinozga said:

@quicky2g said:

@marcinozga said:

My contract is up for renewal this March, so I'll be getting new iPhone then. Wife will get 6S or 6S plus, I'm hoping Apple releases 6C by then. I hate big screen phones.

I'm surprised how much I disliked big screen phones before I had one and how dependent I am on it now. Coworker had a 4inch iPhone that I got my hands on yesterday and felt like I was in the stone age.

My beef with big screens is that it's too big for my pockets, and too big to use with one hand. Big screens are perfect for ladies carrying the phone in a purse, I'm a pocket guy.

I have no idea how a billion 4 foot Asians in skinny jeans carry 6 inch phones. Even crazier how people are going to use the new iPad.

@dafyre said:

@travisdh1 said:

I'm really liking how easy it is to setup. Just want to see some security review by a trusted security person before I go ahead and roll it out. Anyone seen a review on it from someone like Steve Gibson, Brian Krebs, or the like?

If you haven't read up in the FAQ yet, check it out here: https://www.zerotier.com/tech_faq.shtml -- especially the security section.

What kind of use case are you seeing for it?

I did Wireshark on the traffic yesterday. All I saw was encrypted data inside a UDP packet. Not sure if there are any vulnerabilities or security holes in the dependent applications.

@marcinozga said:

My contract is up for renewal this March, so I'll be getting new iPhone then. Wife will get 6S or 6S plus, I'm hoping Apple releases 6C by then. I hate big screen phones.

I'm surprised how much I disliked big screen phones before I had one and how dependent I am on it now. Coworker had a 4inch iPhone that I got my hands on yesterday and felt like I was in the stone age.

MPLS is good to use if you have a multiple sites separated by a WAN and need VoIP traffic sent between them (Cisco, Avaya, Shortel, etc). MPLS generally has low latency which is well suited for VoIP. Broadband is getting better in general, but there are still blips in latency and availability. Most people don't like the idea of losing voice service or quality but they tolerate data outages.

I've seen people use VoIP over broadband and it works fine, but alot of times you get better performance on MPLS since you can pay for QoS.

MPLS is a WAN switching technology but most people use carrier routing on top of it...you don't have to. Several implementations I've dealt with have multiple sites and need a routing protocol so you don't have to configure piles and piles of routes. Alot of people do BGP peering with the carrier router in a "private cloud" so you only get the routes that relate to your sites.

Carrier Ethernet is a similar technology to MPLS. In a sense you're just plugging in a really long Ethernet cable between 2 sites. You would most likely have a router on each side but you don't have to. You can even do VLAN's over carrier Ethernet...remember it's just 1 really long cable.

@gjacobse said:

Might get one,.. most likely be the Apple model since we have had a Apple since the 3gs.. and since we still have the full AT&T unlimited plan (though it went up).. likely to stay there too.

I was on the AT&T unlimited for a while too. Had a work discount and was paying $105/month for a phone and tablet with 450 minutes. My data usage was only 2.5GB max on 1 month in 2014. Switched to the mobile share plan. Unlimited minutes, text, and messaging. Did the 4GB plan but support gave me 6GB for $5 less for being a "loyal customer". Also has rollover data so I usually have 10-12GB per month. Only paying $75 total now. Might be worth looking into if you don't have high data use like me.