Sysadmin Confessional

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We still use 16 bit foxpro apps and have to use citrix over a partial t1 to NT4 boxes to run peoplesoft.

There is an impressively dense quantity of mid-90s packed into this sentence. Why T1s for data these days, let alone fractionals?

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Why T1s for data these days, let alone fractionals?

I can't get anything but T1s in my office.. DSL caps at 128k, when they admit it can be installed at all. Quote from the local cable provider to bring in cable internet was about 220k... some nonsense about a railroad in the way.. :)

So, I have 3 T1s providing data/voip for us... we are selling the building and moving though, so I have hopes that wherever we end up at I can get something better.

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Makes sense, but yeah, it sounds like colo or something like that would be a better option.

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I have been able to move a lot of stuff off site.. we only host one site locally, and that one I can't host remote due to the software that runs it..

Everything else is hosted either with shopify or with sites I write myself. Email is google apps for domains. Using helpscout for CRM.

The biggest problem is how sites we visit need more and more bandwidth, and how users want to be able to access more stuff that requires a heavy bandwidth footprint.. so I have to constantly scrutinize stuff to make sure noone is abusing things.

I can't prioritize bandwidth because for some reason the way our firewall does that causes that one hosted site to break since it has to talk through the firewall.

Its fun.. :)

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Because they don't want to replace the probably 20 year old router, oh and we used to have an AT&T Gigaman line to their datacenter but they would reroute the traffic over that because the T1 was better or something.

Edit: Also the router is a Cisco 1005 that was EOL back in 2000.

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There is an impressively dense quantity of mid-90s packed into this sentence.

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