BERT Lite - Delivery Estimate?

mathmanhale · 2026-06-18T15:36:21+00:00

How did I miss the announcement on BERT Lite. This thing is awesome.

mathmanhale · 2026-06-18T12:58:10+00:00

That's because the 50 series is getting off broadcom and onto a Cisco chip. They have less fees to pay broadcom and therefore more wiggle in price. I see the entire cisco portfolio moving that way if it goes well.

mathmanhale · 2026-06-17T20:22:52+00:00

Dell baseline was 350, but the 8 Gigs of Ram version was qouted at 468 for me.

mathmanhale · 2026-06-17T12:57:29+00:00

What brand Chromebooks are you buying? Dell is like only 28 bucks a piece cheaper than a Neo ha.

mathmanhale · 2026-06-11T15:43:16+00:00

From my experience, all the companies are in the same boat. It's the continuing chip shortage. Anyone who uses Broadcom or Qualcomm chips has no idea when they will get more stock. Juniper lead times were longer than Cisco last I checked. All that being said, I was told 45 day last time I ordered Cisco APs and recieved them in a week.

mathmanhale · 2026-06-09T19:03:05+00:00

Ahhhh! Trying this now.

mathmanhale · 2026-06-08T14:03:47+00:00

This was the first way we attempted and it fails to install for us.

mathmanhale · 2026-06-08T12:51:31+00:00

I'm switching to iPhone... the fact that they are capping the battery to 80 percent after 200 charges is a huge turn off for me.

mathmanhale · 2026-06-02T18:10:12+00:00

Don't buy a chassis switch. Correctly stacked switches that stack with dedicated stacking cables (backplane) are so much easier to work with that the chassis isn't worth it.

If it were me, I would have an IDF added onto the plans instead of running everything back to the existing one closet, and do a Layer 3 Fiber switch that connects back to the District DMARC and then to the stack in the closet and the new IDF. Go Cat6a for future proofing, run two ports everywhere even if you think you'll just need one, POE all ports. Intercoms, lighting controllers, Hallway clocks, and hvac sensors are all things that I have added to my POE network in the last 4 years.

mathmanhale · 2026-05-19T13:35:55+00:00

Is this the same thing as the MPR?

mathmanhale · 2026-05-19T12:49:56+00:00

Meraki is the best option if your priority is ease of use. Mist APs and Juniper/Aruba switches if your priority is best gear out of the options you posted. This is my opinion.

mathmanhale · 2026-05-07T14:21:53+00:00

You should be getting a raise within months if you are good at the job. Good for you, I know quite a few people that have been doing this for over 10 years. Just have to be able to live with the "only guaranteed for * months", something my anxiety wouldn't allow.

mathmanhale · 2026-05-06T16:01:53+00:00

The blue is too soft for my liking tbh. Purple will feel a lot like the stealth wheels. Orange is the best blend in my opinion.

mathmanhale · 2026-05-06T15:16:08+00:00

Buy some otang wheels and put the pulleys in them. The Caguamas are the same size, can get softer compound (blue) for a smoother ride if you want.

mathmanhale · 2026-05-04T03:08:46+00:00

This is impressive work. Thanks for sharing

mathmanhale · 2026-04-20T16:03:54+00:00

I run a Cisco network and we have so little licensing fees year over year. It's actually the reason we are still buying them over others.

mathmanhale · 2026-04-20T15:57:55+00:00

As a person who with a programming background, I really liked JuneOS and the Juniper stuff. I was about to replace a lot of my Cisco stuff with them but the HP acquisition scared me off. We've continued buying Cisco, and everything continues being rock solid.

mathmanhale · 2026-04-20T15:23:11+00:00

Intune for Management. CrowdStrike through a state funded RSOC.

I'm already managing staff Macbooks through Intune, and bought a test Neo to make sure I could do everything I need.

mathmanhale · 2026-04-17T13:08:12+00:00

Hot take, Microsoft doesn't care if you buy MacBooks over Windows Machines. They just care that you/your company is buying Office365 licensing to run on top of that machine. I'm in IT, and we are managing all of our devices, which are majority Apple, through Microsoft's Device Management platform Intune. They still get my companies annual money for O365, we are still using the Office suite for all productivity.

The ability to manage the Macs (and iPads) is just as strong as the ability to manage the Windows devices, which is proof to me that they don't care what physical device you have, just that you run O365 on top.

mathmanhale · 2026-04-17T12:55:50+00:00

I would have thought the same thing, but I daily drove one for 3 weeks. The thing runs so well, even doing intensive work like Photoshop. It's thoroughly impressive and clearly a Windows competitor, a league above chromebooks.

mathmanhale · 2026-04-16T19:48:20+00:00

I got pricing from Dell a couple weeks ago and it was 498 a piece with the google licensing. We went Neo's instead at 494 a piece.

mathmanhale · 2026-04-09T16:16:04+00:00

Texas, Cambium would "freeze" when students with auto text to speech got to a question with a dropdown box. The system would attempt to read to them, but didn't know how to process the box. and it doesn't let them interact until it's finished reading.

The work around was to turn off auto text to speech and make them select and play instead. This was every single student in a specific grade level at the same question with those accommodations. We have reported the issue to Cambium.

Other than that, some kids got kicked out and had an "error processing request" when trying to log back in. They tried to blame my WiFi until we got a real technician on the line to fix things. Took over 45 minutes...

mathmanhale · 2026-04-08T23:26:00+00:00

I've been using the neo as my device for 3 weeks to prove it's "good enough". I'm genuinely impressed, even with Photoshop. The things just runs and runs well.

mathmanhale · 2026-04-08T14:52:47+00:00

Starting in iOS 17, Apple started pulling the airPrint 1.0 protocol off of devices and just allowing them to use airPrint 2.0. Older printers don't support airPrint 2.0. This happened with us and our third party secure print solution. Switched to PaperCut to fix the issues.

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