@Ambarishrh how much color are you looking to do? Laser is obviously going to be your friend in this case, so stay away from Epsons.

@BMarie said:

@RojoLoco said:

@BMarie is the levee gonna break?

It defiantly seems like it.

It's defiant? LOL

Oh, and I owned a Samsung CLP325W, which was a pretty good printer for me while I had it. I got mine refurbed, so it had some weird little quirks, but I was overall happy with it. I also had a Samsung SCX4623F that was solid for a B/W AIO. So I'm a Samsung fan. I just will always prefer Brother until shown that I shouldn't.

@nadnerB said:

@RojoLoco said:

@BMarie is the levee gonna break?

Drive a Chevy to the levee?

Nah, that levee was dry. I had some whiskey and rye though!

@momurda said in All-in-one printer: Suggestions please:

@Ambarishrh I dont like HP printers anymore simply for the fact that toner is so damn expensive and you cant use 3rd party toners. The place i get my 3rd party toners is 1/3 to 1/4 the price of OEM. So even if 2/3 of them are defective i still come out even or ahead compared to OEM. However in my experience about 80-90% of them are not defective, meaning the company saves money compared to OEM.

My issue with reman'ed cartridges is that it's a bad concept. I understand why people do it, but here's things to consider:

• Remanufactured cartridges are taking a cartridge that was probably used up, and putting fresh toner in it and resetting the chip in the cartridge.
• You don't know what the cartridge went through on it's initial life that could have damaged it, and reman'ed are not always good about checking for flaws in the cartridge they get before they do their voodoo that they do.
• The chips they replace with are often after-market so the machine doesn't read them as well
• The reman'ed cartridges never give you the same yield as OEM. Usually 50-60% is about as good as a lot do. Some do a little better, but the quality also is not as good, which for B/W isn't a big deal, but for color it is.
• Reman'ed cartridges risk ruining the printer, which if it's a little SOHO printer is a nuisance at worst, but if it's a big machine, that can be expensive for repair or replacement. I've seen MANY machines that people brought it after ONE generic cartridge that had the cartridge explode and the printer was dead. In some cases, it was machines that were workhorses that never died, and then one bad cartridge ruined it.

I am a firm believer in OEM cartridges. You have to do the risk/reward calculations yourself, but for me, I just stick to original cartridges. Then, if there's an issue, I can go back to the manufacturer and yell at them. And I know they will work, every time.

About to go talk to my manager about changing shifts. This 7am thing is going to burn me out...

What does it do when you turn it on? A suggestion I saw once was to lay it flat on something metal, like a fridge, overnight. It can help ground it. Also, clean the contacts with some rubbing alcohol and a q-tip. I've seen where those start to get dirty or have some corrosion build-up, and that prevents it from connecting properly.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Another major vendor screw up. This time Cox doesn't know what VoIP or PBXs are.... while trying to post "expert knowledge" about them.

Um unless you are very very small since when is it either or? It's both. I guess they think PBX's are the analog/digital systems only no IP Based.

I'm not completely sure what they are thinking. I thought that they were confusing VoIP with hosted and PBX with on-premises. But I am not completely sure. They are so wildly off base, it might be random.

I think they thought PBX meant POTS and VoIP was VoIP. Clearly someone who had NO IDEA what they were talking about.

@Ambarishrh said in All-in-one printer: Suggestions please:

Apparently the only product we can choose is Canon as per their hardware catalog! Anyone used a Canon product before?

Available models are

I'm sorry you must deal with this. Canon machines ARE fairly durable, and are known to go basically not die. They are very similar to the HP LJ 4000 series. You still see Canons 15-20+ years later in production. However, you pay a HUGE premium for that, in the form of high-cost toners and the like.

@scottalanmiller derails but he's not the only one. Also, conversations evolve. Let them.

So update on this:

I will be starting at Spectrum/TWC/Charter one week from today. I know people who work there and the cost of them giving you internet and tv, etc is negligible. So the plan is to keep my current 100/100Mbps FiOS and then get whatever the highest level TWC connection I can and run both, considering one will be basically free. Just to be sure, the ER-X can be setup that way, correct? The plan is to get an ER-X, if that's the case, use 2/3 of the ports for WAN connections, and run the third port to an AP/switch I have running with dd-wrt.

Thanks,
A.J.

@g.jacobse said:

@thanksajdotcom
That is a good point AJ - It's unlikely that any of us plan to 'derail' a conversation.. Conversations need to evolve... after all - Didn't we evolve?

Not touching the latter half of that, but yes, none of us plan to derail a thread, but then again, conversations held face-to-face change, grow and alter course. Why would we expect an online discussion to do any less?

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

So update on this:

... use 2/3 of the ports for WAN connections,

Don't you mean 2/5?

and run the third port to an AP/switch I have running with dd-wrt.

Why are you using the dd-wrt? The ER-X is a firewall/router. I'd use UAPs for APs.

The one I was looking at was this one: https://smile.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-Ethernet/dp/B00CPRVF5K

Am I looking at the wrong one?

Shadowing so I can start working on higher-level accounts.

Also, the reason for using the dd-wrt router as the AP/switch is because of cost, mostly. I don't have equipment that can handle the speed and dual-wan connections I want to throw at it, which is why I was looking for a router that could handle it. But I do have APs that will work, so until I can afford to drop the $$ for new APs from Ubiquiti, then I'll just stick with what I have.

@MattSpeller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

It's just funny because 1km=.62m. The kid was spot on.

intense eye twich at mixed units

I really hope the US goes metric soon.

Sorry, should have put mi and not m. M is meters.

@travisdh1 said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@travisdh1 said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

So update on this:

... use 2/3 of the ports for WAN connections,

Don't you mean 2/5?

and run the third port to an AP/switch I have running with dd-wrt.

Why are you using the dd-wrt? The ER-X is a firewall/router. I'd use UAPs for APs.

The one I was looking at was this one: https://smile.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-Ethernet/dp/B00CPRVF5K

Am I looking at the wrong one?

That would be a great one for what you need to do with it.

For almost twice the price, like @Dashrender said, is it worth the double memory for a home network? Even if my combined internet speed is 200Mb/sec, is it worth the extra upfront money?

Ah, at only 200Mb/sec, you should only NEED 400mb/s, so the ER-X and it's 500mb/s (bits, not bytes unless I've missed a huge trend in what ISPs are quoting), so yeah, stick with the ER-X.

Also, more than slightly off topic. I was always trained that a capital letter denoted bytes while a lowercase letter denoted bits. So networking was always 100mb/s and file sizes were always 100MB.

See, I always saw it was based on whether the "b" was capital or not. MB = megabyte and Mb = megabit. But I also see mbps and Mbps used in networking, so I'm not sure what the "official" standard is.

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@JaredBusch said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@travisdh1 said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

So update on this:

... use 2/3 of the ports for WAN connections,

Don't you mean 2/5?

and run the third port to an AP/switch I have running with dd-wrt.

Why are you using the dd-wrt? The ER-X is a firewall/router. I'd use UAPs for APs.

The one I was looking at was this one: https://smile.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-Ethernet/dp/B00CPRVF5K

Am I looking at the wrong one?

That would be a great one for what you need to do with it.

For almost twice the price, like @Dashrender said, is it worth the double memory for a home network? Even if my combined internet speed is 200Mb/sec, is it worth the extra upfront money?

Just use the ER-X ($50) and the UAP-AC-LITE ($77)

That is $127 shipped with Prime.

Yeah, the ER-X will be what I go with. I'll just stick to the AP I have for now until I upgrade to the Unifi AP.

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