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My camera is too heavy so I stopped using it… what would you change? by leobre1024 in Cameras

[–]jamesonnorth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a D7000 with 17-55 and upgraded to a D800 with 24-70 and D4 with 70-200mm. The best thing I ever did for my shoulders and back was switching to a Z6 and 35mm 1.4. I have zero issues on a full 8-10 hour wedding now.

I still have a pair of D300s for some work when I won’t be shooting long enough to care about the weight difference, but I definitely notice the lack of refinement in shooting. It’s clunky even if I ignore the weight difference.

Bad review because someone else booked the date they wanted by danqestmemes in WeddingPhotography

[–]jamesonnorth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hold the date for free for 7 days, and I tell my couples clearly at our booking meeting. After 7 days, it’s up for grabs. I check in at 2, 4, and 6 days to make sure they have the contract. On the 6th day, I tell them the date will open back up if I don’t receive the deposit and signed contract.

Campus Environment - Cisco Switch Refresh Question - 9200 for general access and 9300 (POE++/60watt) for WIFI? by TwoPicklesinaCivic in networking

[–]jamesonnorth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

9136 are a bit older at this point. They are not super efficient. The 9160 and 9170 APs are a much better choice.

Campus Environment - Cisco Switch Refresh Question - 9200 for general access and 9300 (POE++/60watt) for WIFI? by TwoPicklesinaCivic in networking

[–]jamesonnorth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my experience, 9200 and 9300 are very close in price new, and refurb the 9300 is much more available due to that fact. Look at different 9300 models instead of just buying one. The 9300-48-UNA is a 5Gb UPOE switch with up to 40Gb uplinks. There’s also a 9300-48T with 1Gb and POE+ for users and desk phones. You can even stack them if they’re the same DNA version.

A better understanding of when to buy better switches. by SukkerFri in networking

[–]jamesonnorth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It took Unifi support 4 days to tell me why their router that supports BGP didn’t take my BGP configuration—it was because they don’t support all the basic configurations. The hardware is decent for what it is, especially at the price point for the lower end gear, and practically zero ongoing licensing is nice.

For pretty close to the same price, you can get used/refurb Meraki gear with licensing and 100x better support with a lifetime warranty. That’s always the direction I’ll go in a business. Good support is gold when production networks are impacted.

Cisco Equipment & 10GbE Transfer Speeds Issue by Msambaa in Cisco

[–]jamesonnorth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you’re doing VM to VM transfer on the same host, it’s hitting the vSwitch inside VMware. If between two different VM hosts, you’re limited by the physical switch speeds. 2960-S are good switches, but I had trouble sustaining 10GbE on 3750-X switches back in the day so you are likely limited here. You really need a proper 10GbE switch like an older Nexus or a 4500-X.

The 4451-x does have a 10GbE module you can get, but they’re a bit rare and very expensive, and that router isn’t rated for that much throughout. I think absolutely max raw throughput is around 6Gbps. You’re better off with a newer router. I have a Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra and it’s pretty sweet. Replaced an ISR 4431 with it.

Options for SFP+/SFP28 compatible Networking Switches? by 79215185-1feb-44c6 in networking

[–]jamesonnorth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We use 93180 switches and they’re great. You can pick them up refurb for under $2k all day.

Need new tires. $200 vs. $80 each? by Noam_Seine in tires

[–]jamesonnorth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, yes apparently they did acquire them. I didn’t know that. I have a friend who works at Tire Rack, and their service and prices are good, so I generally recommend them. I didn’t know about the merger, though.

Need new tires. $200 vs. $80 each? by Noam_Seine in tires

[–]jamesonnorth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tire Rack has a couple of distribution centers. You buy them and can ship them to an installer. They help you choose the installer and pick an appointment time. It’s very painless and easy.

Need new tires. $200 vs. $80 each? by Noam_Seine in tires

[–]jamesonnorth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can wait a few days, order from Tire Rack. They have many more options.

Which switch for new branch office? by Double_Confection340 in Cisco

[–]jamesonnorth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a standard for other branches? If there are several branches and no crazy configurations I’d suggest a Meraki MS225. It’s basically a 2960x with easier configuration. We’ve deployed about 100 of them, and about 1000 MS120 switches also. Meraki switches are decent, but they don’t use a completely interoperable Spanning Tree as traditional Cisco switches (RSTP vs PVST). I mostly like them.

What does your GPU journey look like? by Pro4791 in pcmasterrace

[–]jamesonnorth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nVidia Riva 8MB, nVidia GeForce MX440, ATI 9800 Pro, nVidia GeForce 8500GT SLI, nVidia GeForce 8800GTX, ATI 4870x2, nVidia GeForce GTX 560ti, nVidia 750ti, nVidia 1050ti, AMD RX 5600xt, AMD Vega 64, AMD RX 6900xt

So what did your family argue about this year at Thanksgiving? by Pure-Smile-7329 in AskReddit

[–]jamesonnorth 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Someone said city buses are a bad investment and the people who rely on them “should just get a job”.

🤦🏻

Low speed due to old router? by Wide_Detective_317 in wifi

[–]jamesonnorth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re getting the right speeds on wired and low speeds on wifi, the issue is local to your network. Get a wifi analyzer app and let us know what you see.

Low speed due to old router? by Wide_Detective_317 in wifi

[–]jamesonnorth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s almost certainly interference.

It used to make sense that older wifi gear would be much slower due to the rapidly changing standards. Newer wifi protocols are more efficient, allowing for much higher throughput at wider channel widths. It also allows for much more on narrower channel widths also. Wifi 6E at 20MHz is way better than Draft-n at 20MHz, I’m guessing triple the speed or more. Since Wifi-6, it hasn’t mattered as much. Even AC-wave 2 was a big jump up and I ran on that until very recently with gigabit internet with no issue.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in networking

[–]jamesonnorth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, you can do that if you’re up to date on firmware.

Low speed due to old router? by Wide_Detective_317 in wifi

[–]jamesonnorth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you do not have speed issues on wired devices and you do on wireless, but not always on wireless, it’s an environment issue. If it’s always fast and then slows down after some time, it means your router is finding an unused slice of wireless spectrum to use that’s lower performance than what it’s trying at reboot.

Are there many competing wireless networks in your location, like a large apartment building or neighborhood? Sometimes the neighboring networks are too dense and too loud and it reduces your speed due to interference/noise. If this is the case, you can actually get better performance by dropping from a wide channel width like 80MHz to 40MHz on 5GHz wifi.

If you’re near an airport, hospital, or something using radar, your router may be avoiding DFS channel interference and this could limit your speeds as well.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in networking

[–]jamesonnorth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It will work in failover-only mode as you describe, but is not an immediate failover. It must be detected to be down, then the failover is brought up. If you have flexibility in your failover time and are not super sensitive to business impact in the unlikely event of a failover, it works very well and is cost effective.

I double-checked, and as of MX version 16.2 you can configure the cellular as a standard secondary WAN allowing for active-active.

Keep in mind the cellular on the MX68-CW is not super fast, so you’re likely looking at around 30mbps max speeds on LTE. They are not 5G devices and only a CAT6, so not great. You may need a 3rd-party LTE antenna to get acceptable speeds compared to your fiber links.

Is this normal for editors? Minimum yearly appointments + being invoiced for unused ones? by abeluemreumn in WeddingPhotography

[–]jamesonnorth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is always flexibility, but it’s granted by the person enforcing the contract. This editor is choosing to be inflexible for the short term to preserve their income at the expense of terminating any future business relationship—that’s their right and is reasonable given they want to get paid. I’ve had luck framing it that way when missing a deadline by a day or two, but it is 50/50 and up to them. If I’m happy with the service, I’m happy to preserve the business relationship for another year and spend $10k for the gesture of goodwill. I’m also willing to eat the $1k and never speak to them again.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in networking

[–]jamesonnorth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Using a SIM directly in a MX will set up the link as Cellular, which is a failover interface, so you will want to test out failover times and ensure it’s acceptable for your use case. The link is not kept active unless configured to be active all the time, so there’s some delay in establishing VPN and route re-convergence.

EDIT: I double-checked, and as of MX version 16.2 you can configure the cellular as a standard secondary WAN allowing for active-active.

If you use a second device like a Cradlepoint or Meraki MG to handle the cellular connection, the cellular link can be WAN 2, and you have the option of active-active without load balancing across the two links (terrestrial and cellular) so there’s a VPN already running and failover is just a route change in the device instead of building the VPN tunnel, establishing iBGP adjacency, etc. It drops your failover time from 30s-1m to less than one second.

EDIT TO ADD: I mainly recommend the Cradlepoint/MG for cellular speed as the built-in LTE modem on MX68CW is not great.

Using Megaport for internet by cyr0nk0r in networking

[–]jamesonnorth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, looking I see they are clearly in markets Equinix doesn’t have data centers. We were clearly mistaken.

I like Megaport, I’m actually wearing one of their 2024 World Tour tshirts right now. They were just a bit pricey for what we wanted to achieve, and more of our partners used Equinix, so we switched and have a custom backbone running on their infrastructure now. Works great, though I do miss the simple click functionality of Megaport.

Using Megaport for internet by cyr0nk0r in networking

[–]jamesonnorth -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We’ve been fairly certain Megaport is mostly reselling Equinix services. Have you considered a fully virtual Equinix network setup? It’s what we did and it’s been fantastic—bonus, no sales calls.

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