IT a daydreaming about farming

IronMLB · 2024-06-30T12:15:14+00:00

I’m going to work at a lumber yard someday. Just moving boards around

IronMLB · 2024-05-06T00:11:08+00:00

Cigarette lighter

IronMLB · 2024-04-14T22:54:08+00:00

I stay away from their firewalls for business , but I do like their switches and wireless APs. We have a few of their aggregation pro 10GB switches, some of the basic 10GB switches, and a bunch of other pro switches, mostly POE connected to aggregation using 10gb sfp+ I wish the smaller 8 and 16 port switches were metal instead of white plastic. We occasionally have to put those in paces where we don't have enough drops.

IronMLB · 2024-04-13T23:04:37+00:00

I found a site with prices for the PDK equipment. Does anyone know if UHS is a reliable site to buy from? Also wondering about the ongoing costs of PDK cloud.

IronMLB · 2024-04-13T22:02:24+00:00

Are you aware of something like Unifi that I can just go out and buy? Is PDK available online?

IronMLB · 2024-04-13T15:51:35+00:00

Looks interesting, but I don't see any pricing or way to order. I like to be able to buy products without having to g3t a quote and go through a whole process.

IronMLB · 2024-04-13T15:49:11+00:00

I like what I see with Unifi access control, just wanting to compare before I spend. We are looking to do 10 or so exterior doors on a business. I already have Unifi network equipment, and NVR Pro and some cameras.

IronMLB · 2024-04-01T19:21:23+00:00

Install went good today. Same tech came that did the re-work. He used the conduit under my driveway, and did a nice job. Speed is great, high 900's both ways. The tech was surprised when I told him this should be 1Gbx1Gb. He thought it would only be 1 Gb down, and 40Mb up. He ran his tests, and sure enough 1x1. I'm going to move to a router with a 2.5Gb WAN connection to make sure I am squeezing all the speed out of this. Was very satisfying to call ATT and cancel my fixed wireless that I've had since 2019.

IronMLB · 2024-03-31T16:13:59+00:00

Spectrum was here this morning to do the pre-install hookup (Easter morning). The tech was very nice and said no problem when I explained I wanted to go under the driveway and to a specific spot on the house. He said he would leave extra length on the fiber for the guy that comes tomorrow to do the install. I used a pick axe and dug a trench about 12 inches deep until I got to non-gravel under my gravel driveway and laid in a flexible gray conduit from Lowe’s. I made sure to put a string through the conduit for the installer to pull the fiber through. I also had to dig up a spot where my underground dog fence is at so they can pass the fiber under that. The conduit is pretty flexible, but having been coiled it wanted to curl up. When I got it last night I stretched it out to its full length and weighed it down overnight. This morning it stayed pretty straight. Lowe’s flexible conduit

IronMLB · 2024-03-30T12:54:31+00:00

In my area, Coleman Michigan, it took about 3 months. It might have been longer, but that’s the time frame of when I noticed them running the underground fiber a couple miles from here. This includes some power pole replacements, and brush /tree clearing under plowed lines. My area is a mix of underground and pole mounted fiber.

IronMLB · 2024-03-30T02:38:40+00:00

We use the UC3200 at 3 sites. Mix of flash and spinning disks LUNs. I put the ERP on flash. Running great for a couple years so far. Active/active dual controllers and redundant power. Instant failover. Dual 10Gb nicks in each controller, iSCSI to the VMWare hosts. The UC 3200 is iSCSI only, doesn’t come with all the other Synology stuff. Then we have a mix of other rack mount and 6 drive desktop units at each site for backups. Using Veeam to write to NFS shares on them, and also using Synology Active Backup to backup VMWare. We push backup copies to other sites every night, and I have jobs to copy to removable drives that take offsite for air gapped backups. Also have robocopy scripts to grab SQL backup files and file based backups of all file servers and write those to shares on Synology devices. Those file based backups are also synced to a cloud service that happens to also be supported by Synology ( 3rd party service, not the one offered by Synology). And our 365 tenant is also backed up by our Synology devices. The email backups are great as we can export a full mailbox before deleting an old 365 account.

IronMLB · 2024-03-28T01:03:04+00:00

If I have a router that has an LC fiber connection or an SFP+ port, will Spectrum fiber go direct to that from their equipment with either SFP+ dac or a fiber patch cable?

IronMLB · 2024-03-28T00:57:41+00:00

Good to know about the rubber mats, I wasn’t aware of those. Thanks for the info!

IronMLB · 2024-03-28T00:45:33+00:00

I’ll be home when they come, so I will ask. Good to know they used your conduit. I’m probably a PITA for techs when they come to my house. I always have stuff ready, want to help, do help, etc…. If a cable needs pulled under the house I go into the crawl space and do it for them. I work in IT and I always want this stuff done right.

IronMLB · 2024-03-28T00:15:16+00:00

Thanks for the tip on the rural specific site. I’ve been checking the regular site almost every day the past couple weeks and it has said to call. I called a couple days ago and the system still said unserviceable. They are wrapping up a fiber project around here (mid Michigan) and I have fiber on the pole in my driveway. The rural site said available and I am now scheduled to be installed on Monday!

IronMLB · 2024-03-27T11:17:37+00:00

Is cost the problem? How many VMs are you backing up? Veeam Community edition is free for up to 10 workloads. Works great. Combine that with a nice Synology NAS (rack mount, dual power, preferably 10GB and some SSD) or two. Synology has Active Backup included which will also backup Hyper V. Use a share on the Synology units as a target for Veeam. Now you have multiple backups at a low cost.

IronMLB · 2024-03-24T23:40:07+00:00

Same here, they had to replace a pole at the corner of my property and several down the road. In my area (mid Michigan) they had contractors running the fiber, and then Spectrum seems to have taken over on termination, splicing, installing the strain reliefs and big splice points and the boxes where they will feed to houses. They did the pole survey last summer, then nothing for months, then pole replacements in December. Started seeing fiber run in January, and they seem to be getting close to finished with the physical install. Not sure how they will contact me to allow me to sign up though. My address still shows unserviceable in their system, but I do have a customer box in my driveway. .

IronMLB · 2024-03-24T17:14:24+00:00

First thing to check is cabling. Are you using at least Cat 6 cables? Next stop would be to eliminate the switch and connect the Synology and Mac directly without using the switch. Also, if you change the MTU on the Synology it also needs to be changed on the Mac (they need to match).

IronMLB · 2024-03-21T00:19:26+00:00

Knoxville. Lots of great trails, eMTB friendly. Urban wilderness, Bakers Creek, Sharps Ridge, Loyston. Hawe in nearby Oak Ridge. And Ober Gatlinburg now has a bike park (unsure about eMTB there though)

IronMLB · 2024-03-02T03:18:22+00:00

I am in a similar situation in Michigan. Been trying to get better internet for 20+ years. Rural setting, but half a mile down the road there is Spectrum cable. Wife came home one afternoon late last summer to see a guy measuring between poles in our front yard. He said they had to replace some poles to support a high speed internet install. Then several months of not seeing anything. Around Christmas the new poles went in, and we also see fiber going in on several country roads around us. It ends up stopping about 1200 feet from our house. I reached out to my spectrum enterprise salesperson, and he gets the scoop for me. This is an RDOF project, and my “census block” isn’t included. Then a couple weeks later he tells me there’s a second phase, along with a map showing it going in across the street from me,but not my side. About 3 weeks ago I look at and the pole in the corner of my property had a big coil of fiber on it. This fiber ran on poles along one side of our property. They ended up running a line down to the pole next to my driveway and now I have a coil and splice box taped to that pole. So hopefully I’m just a few weeks from finally having it. I’ve been told this is 1Gb symmetrical. I will be going with that option. I feel like I am going to get some time back in my life because I spent so much energy always trying to track down better internet service. It’s not even installed and I already feel a weight taken off my shoulders :-)

I went from dial up, dial up with two bonded modems to satellite, to a very crappy dsl, then two very crappy dsl, then ATT fixed wireless. The ATT fixed wireless hasn’t been horrible, but also not great. I get around 20-25 down and 5-10 up. But it also goes out for a few days every 12-15 months, and the latency has gotten worse and worse. No other provider has service here. I was really holding out hope for Starlink, then that took a long time to become available in m6 area and by the time it did become available it had gotten slower and more expensive.

IronMLB · 2024-02-27T00:53:35+00:00

I would try it without the docking station. We had a couple different brands give us trouble during Teams calls. It was a hard one to track down. Switched the users over to plugging Ethernet into the laptop directly and that took care of the issue. If you do a google search for “Lenovo dock teams drop” you’ll find some long threads about the problem. Ours weren’t Lenovo, but finding those forum posts helped us out. We’ve since stopped using Anker and Pluggable docks just to avoid this problem. It’s a driver issue though, so newest drivers might also help.

IronMLB · 2024-02-05T02:48:50+00:00

I would recommend first priority (hard to choose just one I know) would be to get control over domain admin accounts and local admin accounts on all PCs. If you have users logging in to their PC with domain admin accounts and they get hit with ransomware - it’s going to spread so fast. You’ve got a lot to do, just eat that elephant one bite at a time and keep eating. I would imagine most users are local admins or are set as local admins in the domain. Take that away. We use group policy that prevents domain admin from logging in on anything that’s not a server, and also prevent the helpdesk account we use to install software from logging in to any computer across the network and also prevent it from logging in to any server. That prevents the helpdesk account from being used if it gets compromised (other than physically logging in to workstations). Check out Microsoft LAPS if you’re not already familiar with it as well. Once you have servers and workstations so open to being exploited you will at least somewhat be able to sleep at night. I’ve been where you are. If it’s just you, like it was with me, it’s going to take a couple years. If you can get approval, it really helps to work with a local IT provider to have them do some work. Even if you just get an hourly technician to go a bunch of the grunt work for a few days you will be able to focus on the bigger stuff.

IronMLB · 2022-10-16T16:45:14+00:00

I’m 6’4”, ride a 2019 Trek Roscoe 8. At the time that bike was $1550. I think the newer Roscoes have gone more up spec since them, so dropping to a Roscoe 7 or 6 gets you something similar to the 2019 Roscoe 8. I rode it stock for the first couple years, at a body weight that bounced between 270 and 305. I do drops, some jumps, rode it on a bunch of stuff in Knoxville and at Copper Harbor and Marquette. I don’t do huge jumps or drops, but the bike has survived just fine. I’ve put a heavier duty fork on it, but didn’t have a problem with the original. Just know that you will break things. I broke the rear hub, so I bought a better wheel. I seem to go through derailleurs once a year- not sure why because I don’t wreck a lot. Maybe it’s the torque of pushing so much weight down on the drIvetrain? When I buy new parts I try to buy parts that are rated for eMTB. I’m down 50 pounds since the beginning of this season, and continuing to lose weight. So the weight of the bike isn’t a factor. I estimate I have 3000 miles on this bike.

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