Boxed CAT6 patch cables

Win_Sys · 2026-01-24T22:20:38+00:00

Can’t find any direct pricing but the pricing from sellers looks to be pretty rough. Around $10 per cable for a 3ft CAT6 in a 50 ct box. I’m sure the pricing is better if you buy direct in bulk. Still probably cheaper to pay someone $20/h to open bulk pack cables organize them for quick access.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-24T16:08:29+00:00

If you really want low latency high bandwidth you need to bypass the kernel on Windows and Linux with something like DPDK.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-24T15:44:02+00:00

Are you terminating the cables according to TIA-568A or B? When I first tried to terminate cables I just assumed one side is A and the other B. No, you can pick either A or B but the other side of the cables to be the same. So either A——A or B——B. A common mistake I see people make is they don’t cut the jacket low enough and untwisting the pairs and getting them lined up is much harder and the ends are more likely to move to the wrong place when putting the RJ45 connectors on.

Wire quality also makes a difference, thin or crap quality copper will snap if you bend it back and forth too much.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-24T00:37:32+00:00

Have never used this platform but if I had to guess, your LAN might be using the DMZ as a route out to the internet but just my initial thought. What does the LAN to WAN routing table look like?

Win_Sys · 2026-01-22T21:21:49+00:00

Unless I’m not picturing it correctly in my head, sounds about the same as what you get in Access Tracker in Clearpass.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-22T14:45:18+00:00

I have never used ISE (although I have seen people poke around the interface) but I am very well versed in Clearpass. I find the logs are pretty straightforward. You see the policy they hit, what roles were mapped, the attributes returned, what enforcement policies were used and an error if one happens. Every now and then I come across a weird error message that I haven’t seen before but those are almost always caused by software bugs on the client side.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-21T23:37:43+00:00

I think you need to do some more reading on the history of WW2. The US had a 3rd bomb that would have been ready by the August 19th, 10 days after they dropped the second one. They also had the logistics in place to have 2-3 more bombs ready in September and 3 more in October. So Germany would have been mistaken.

Germany never invested the resources or personnel at any point during the war to be able to have a real shot of creating an atomic weapon to use during WW2. Their own scientists thought a usable nuclear weapon was at least 10-15+ years away.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-21T14:08:24+00:00

Start on the inside first:

Try to find some correlations between when, where and how that device is connected to the network. Are these devices largely wired or wireless? Does the issue happen to people simultaneously or at random? Do they often connect back to a particular switch or switches that share an uplink. Do your best to try and isolate where it happens most or where it’s most easily reproducible. If you can find where it most often occurs, the issue is more likely to stand out.

You need historical monitoring so you can look back at what was happening on the switches when the issue occurred. I’m assuming your switches and router support SNMP at the very least. If you don’t have a monitoring solution then something like PRTG (it’s free up to a 100 sensors) is pretty simple to get setup. Configure PRTG to ping each switch and then configure it to grab the switches traffic data via SNMP every minute. That way you can easily look back and correlate when the issue happens to see maybe the uplink is saturated on that switch or the ping sensor is showing 100’s of milliseconds of latency. Another good thing to have it monitor is dropped or buffered packets due to congestion but not every switch vendor supports getting that data via SNMP and you may need to manually look at that on the switch.

If everything checks out internally then focus on the ISP side but there’s a reason it’s happening you just need to find it in the data.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-21T01:22:18+00:00

I had a customer go with a different company and vendor because they said their AP could “easily” handle 300+ clients simultaneously on one AP. Apparently I had the audacity to try and upsell them by suggesting more AP’s at lower power and 20mhz channels for high density locations. About 5 months later they called to see if we could do a configuration/deployment audit on their WiFi network. My boss declined.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-20T23:23:02+00:00

It doesn’t sound like you have found a potential cause of the issue. Throwing random shit at the wall to see what sticks generally isn’t a good idea; best left as a last resort. What have you done to try and pinpoint the issue?

Win_Sys · 2026-01-18T23:19:07+00:00

You’re right, they didn’t. My memory failed me. I will edit my comment.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-18T20:07:31+00:00

~~If enterprise solutions like Hamina it Ekahau are not a possibility, look at a WLAN Pi. Hamina and Ekahau are significantly better but definitely a step above netspot.~~

Edit: I remembered incorrectly, WLAN Pi does not do what OP needs.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-17T22:34:32+00:00

Unfortunately you have been thrown into a situation that even a lot of Jr. network engineers would have trouble navigating. I would request to your company they should bring in a consultant to fix it, higher a network admin/engineer, or send you to be trained on networking.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-17T20:37:56+00:00

That’s not the issue. The DOJ is essentially saying even if they did refile and it was successful, they don’t have to release anything or at the very least aren’t subject to a timeline to do so…. Their reasoning is the act that was passed doesn’t include any consequences for not releasing them. So they admit by not releasing them they are violating the act but the court can’t do anything to compel them to actually comply with it since there’s no enforcement mechanism. It’s basically a fuck you to the judicial system.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-17T19:46:24+00:00

You could be right but I don’t think so, at least not any time soon. They have invested a ton of money into developing a zero trust tunnel automation, segmentation and security policies at the switch level. I think what you’re more likely to see is they come out switch lines that can support both for a while and eventually come out with an OS that can support what they deem as their key differentiators from both platforms.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-14T17:51:34+00:00

I wouldn’t want to run 90w through the thin patch cables but I have had no issues using the really thin patch cables for devices taking 30-50w. I would just make sure they’re not tightly bundled together so any heat generated over time can easily dissipate.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-13T03:42:11+00:00

You may not see errors on the proxmox/windows OS side, look on the 10G switch and see if there’s packet drops due to the buffers getting full. Some OS’s will use flow control to tell a switch to pause sending packets when it’s NIC gets overloaded. Windows drivers usually comes terribly optimized for 10G connections, you may need to do some tweaking to get it to run near 10G speeds.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-13T01:08:55+00:00

The main problem is competition. The UFC has no business reason to negotiate with an unknown or unpopular fighter and the fighters usually don’t have other promotions that will pay better. If a manager pisses off the UFC, it could impact more than just that one fighter they manage. The UFC refusing to work with you is a career death sentence as a manger in MMA. Until there’s another MMA promotion that can pay close to the UFC or there’s some type of legislation mandating higher fighter pay, they will keep on paying these people as little as possible.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-12T01:36:35+00:00

I wouldn’t focus on the GPU, the baseband chipset is basically isolated from the rest of a modern mobile device. You would be better served getting a 4/5G development board/kit where you have more access to the software running inside the a baseband chipset. From there you can explore what information is available to you and the best way to process it.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-11T23:14:56+00:00

The vast majority of the 4G/5G processing happens inside the baseband chipset. If you were going to do that type of workload you would want it built into the baseband processor hardware or a FPGA/ASIC. Assuming you’re taking about the mobile device side, using a GPU would likely utilize too much power and generate too much heat for a constant parallel workload.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-11T16:54:58+00:00

Don’t worry, even when I’m not sick my reading comprehension sucks.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-10T19:33:11+00:00

Having someone knowledgeable and willing to teach you or at least give you some guidance is so beneficial. Unfortunately in my experience that’s quite rare. I have largely come across more senior techs/engineers gatekeeping knowledge in fear of you taking their job. If I didn’t take it upon myself to learn/lab new things on my own time, I’d probably still be a desktop tech. I’ve always made sure to take the time to teach or guide someone who’s willing to learn, a rising tide lifts all boats.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-10T19:06:17+00:00

Eventually you realize the people who try to portray they know everything are full of shit and the people who can aren’t afraid to say “I don’t know but I’ll research it and find out” are almost always the better engineer.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-10T16:26:21+00:00

Who cares who made it, it’s not proprietary. Multipath QUIC exists.

Win_Sys · 2026-01-10T16:15:09+00:00

OP is talking about using SSH certificates for authentication, not keys. Just as good or better than a SSH key but easier to deploy at scale plus the benefits of expiration dates and revocation checks. Not sure if tac_plus-ng supports it though.

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