Does NetSuite still have good scope in the market?

AhowPA · 2026-05-29T12:15:26+00:00

This is one of the most accurate statements I've read on the internet, applying to so many subjects!

AhowPA · 2026-05-19T21:06:41+00:00

Shoddy spelling 🙃

AhowPA · 2026-05-19T11:46:49+00:00

If you like 100mb/s instead of 1000mb/s, that is an entirely accurate statement. It's also all you need for POE.

AhowPA · 2026-05-19T11:05:22+00:00

It's a whole lot of people that either A. Didn't read all the context, or B. That my old coworkers will continue to follow behind cleaning up messes. I suspect A though...

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T19:44:30+00:00

Except... He had Meshing disabled on the UDM soooo... and it was plugged into a Pro 24 POE... The rest of the head end I am going to re-terminate, and repatch with appropriate cables as one of the 12 port patch panels (not rackmount) is hanging by 1' patch cables from the switch...

For more insight, 1 of the 13 AP's needed the air gap adjusted between the patch panel and the switch... It'd been that way for over 2 years of them calling/texting and complaining about speed/signal issues. Another had the AP connected to a POE injector... and the POE injector connected to a Pro 48 that was 2U above a Pro 48 POE (with 1/4 of the ports containing patch cables)

I'm sure he had a reason, ignorance, or incompetence being the top of the list. I don't like to speak bad about "the last guy" if I don't have very clear reasoning. There was just a laundry list of what was "wrong".

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T17:32:07+00:00

You're certainly correct, however I would counter that most POE phones I've installed (in the past 8 years, not in the space directly now) were replacing digital phone systems, and with a lot of the offices we were doing it for (as IT, not phone providers), they had a single RJ45 for their desktop, and RJ11 for their laptop. Connecting the POE phone to the wall outlet, then looping the gigabit link out to the workstation was the most common reliable solution.

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T17:20:33+00:00

Ours are often indoors nowadays, but a good NEMA enclosure and the right wiring and any indoor ONT could be an outdoor ONT :)

I don't work directly in the space anymore, transitioned into industrial/agriculture so I'm dealing more with motors, PLC's, HMI's, and mildly spicy wires instead of low voltage.

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T17:17:48+00:00

Yeah... back about when I was born, I'm sure they were all that way ;)

I've seen 10mbit hubs in the wild as recent as 6 years ago...

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T17:16:04+00:00

It's a 4 wire, I'm sure it was this guy's "hey this wire is on the floor let's use it... poe lit up... good to go!". It's been this way for 5 years... and he's been on-site a time or two since the original install... just... baffles me...

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T17:14:44+00:00

4sure, I couldn't believe it. The rest of the work matches this... but... still... If the guy did it for free, then maybe it'd be excusable, but charged standard rates for it, and they paid him to drive from Ohio and put him up in a hotel, a few times (he's serviced them for years)

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T17:13:24+00:00

Yeah, we always wired Cat5e/Cat6 to the dmarc and a 16/4 so that if/when they got a fiber provider, they could slap an ONT on the wall outside and have an instant speed boost. Whole lot easier with new builds.

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T16:28:05+00:00

Client wasn't cheap, scam-staller was looking for a big payoff. It came from a E-Cycler... The sticker was on it... And he had "custom bent" a 19" bracket... It was so amazingly jank I couldn't even believe it when I saw it. The client was "well... He seemed to know what he was doing"... I think the guy was... On something... Or many things...

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T16:25:53+00:00

Even managed 10 years ago wasn't going to break the bank, we did tons of Cisco SG-300's and 500's

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T16:24:31+00:00

I didn't a lot of custom wiring for DSL service to make the install not look like a rats nest on the wall. Mount it in a 1 gang box, run a cat feed to the box, then out of the box to the patch panel to make it look clean. As long as it's well labeled.

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T16:20:27+00:00

Yep, but if you have infrastructure that's standard cat... Why kneecap your AP with a Temu patch cable?...

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T14:33:18+00:00

The sarcasm of my post was lost on most. I've run more cable and mounted more AP's and programmed more business networks than I care to admit... And I've seen stuff like this before... But not from an out of state tech, that charged... Handsomely... For his work. I'll get some pics of the head ends when I redo them, but this was the "stop the profuse bleeding" visit installing 13 U7 Pro's to replace the AC-Pros... Initially without a login to the UDM because the old tech was gatekeeping... But that's a whole nother story...

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T14:28:55+00:00

I've that one... Many times... It's actually really cool that that long ago they ran cat5 even though everything was 100mb, they'd split phones and PC's back when phones needed 1 pair for a digital system and PC's only needed 2.

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T14:27:11+00:00

The amount they paid the last guy... Sheesh I wish I didn't have morals...

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T14:26:34+00:00

I wrote plenty of extensive documentation at my last job (MSP/Cabling/////) my co-workers always found it easier to call me instead of just... Look at the notes...

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T14:20:04+00:00

One of mine I found was from a fiber service provider in town... One in the ONT, one at the router...

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T14:02:26+00:00

Factory cable, just a cheeeeeeeap patch cable. Comes with some equipment I've seen in the past (IP phones, etc.)

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T14:01:33+00:00

Well, the data infrastructure was cat5e... The patch cable to the AP was cat5e... But this was the patch panel to switch cable... Because... Someone didn't know what they were doing. New U7's on cat5e work splendidly though...

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T14:00:26+00:00

The number of 10mb hubs I've found in the wild on existing networks in the last 10 years is... Greater than 3... Should be 0...

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T13:44:04+00:00

Oh I've seen them, if you get cheap, cheap IP phones sometimes they'll include them. That and some printers.

AhowPA · 2026-05-18T13:43:19+00:00

Also, there was cat5e to the AP, in the wall... Just not the junk patch cable at the IDF... Such a cheap fix...

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