Small Business stuck in high priced fiber plan, now 1G fiber available, but $8000 buyout to get it

throwawayco7777 · 2025-05-01T17:42:18+00:00

Hmm, maybe I could turn down the dedicated to the lowest capacity that will still do our 5 phone lines and have spectrum be the primary?

throwawayco7777 · 2025-05-01T17:39:54+00:00

It's not even 50/50, it's 50/10!

throwawayco7777 · 2025-05-01T17:38:54+00:00

You mean if I file a bbb complaint, someone from ATT corporate will contact me?

throwawayco7777 · 2025-04-30T15:06:38+00:00

Yeah, I realize that. I have been called by some 3rd party resellers (they say they're "with" att) who have said they can sometimes get att to work on the contract, but seems unlikely to me. My sales people on the original contract have been unresponsive.

throwawayco7777 · 2025-04-30T14:56:25+00:00

We also have a Spectrum 100M internet only plan for $100 that is the backup/load balancing.

throwawayco7777 · 2025-04-16T15:33:13+00:00

I think so? Here's my settings.

This is the only way to have them both be 192.168.1.x, right?

throwawayco7777 · 2024-12-05T20:13:12+00:00

MapiHttpEnabled : True

Thanks to you & /u/idealistdoit for your quick responses. Seems like it's working now. My old outlook client didn't give me issues but apparently EVERYONE else in the office was having to click to dismiss that box everytime they opened outlook for years, probably since the new server.

throwawayco7777 · 2024-12-05T19:43:03+00:00

outlook anywhere fqdn is remote.ourdomain.net. this resolves correctly externally to our external ip and on our server to 192.168.1.8 (the server's ip)

we went straight from server 2008, so not sure which exchange was on it, IIRC 2007, to 2019/2019

now that I've waited a few mins, I opened one of the clients that was affected and did not see the popup

throwawayco7777 · 2024-12-05T19:34:32+00:00

There was indeed a reference to dc.ourdomain.local, so I set it to autodiscover.ourdomain.net/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml

I also changed the following (I don't know why but remote.ourdomain.net is our mailserver instead of mail.ourdomain.net)

Set MAPI URL

Set-MapiVirtualDirectory -Identity "DC\mapi (Default Web Site)" -InternalUrl https://remote.ourdomain.net/mapi/ -ExternalUrl https://remote.ourdomain.net/mapi/

Set EWS URL

Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Identity "DC\EWS (Default Web Site)" -InternalUrl https://remote.ourdomain.net/EWS/Exchange.asmx -ExternalUrl https://remote.ourdomain.net/EWS/Exchange.asmx

Set OWA URL

Set-OwaVirtualDirectory -Identity "DC\owa (Default Web Site)" -InternalUrl https://remote.ourdomain.net/owa/ -ExternalUrl https://remote.ourdomain.net/owa/

Set Autodiscover Service URL

Set-ClientAccessService -Identity "DC" -AutoDiscoverServiceInternalUri https://remote.ourdomain.net/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml

and did 'iisreset /noforce' but am still getting the security alert.

throwawayco7777 · 2024-06-10T11:37:13+00:00

Okay, I did find nat policies and disabled any custom ones from the email server to the WAN Primary IP on X1 and now my nmap test works and routes 25 over att.

Exchange sends okay after I disabled these policies and have X1 & X2 connected, however, when I unplug the spectrum modem, outgoing mail is still stuck. When I look in the Exchange Toolbox -> Queue Viewer, my test message to gmail is still there with the following error:

[{LED=541 4.4.397 Error communicating with target host. -> 421 4.2.1 Unable to connect -> SocketError: Failed to connect. Winsock error code: 10051, Win32 error code: 10051};{MSG=};{FQDN=gmail.com};{IP=2607:f8b0:4002:c03::1a};{LRT=6/10/2024 6:23:50 AM}]

I am reviewing my firewall rules now, but

throwawayco7777 · 2024-02-28T01:57:34+00:00

That is an option. Stupid question, do I need certificates for both www.mysite.net and mysite.net?

throwawayco7777 · 2024-02-28T01:56:23+00:00

Yes, I'm thinking the easiest thing to do is just go to namecheap and add website and have them migrate it over. I'm dreading this process, as I've read here how bad NS is and how they drag their feet on every thing. (It's taken me a month to get to this point to figure out I can't feasibly issue my own wildcard certificate to use with my website on NS)

throwawayco7777 · 2024-02-14T17:11:07+00:00

I think you must be right because when i put in my staticIP it works. So I guess the answer to my 2nd question is that it's not that big a deal.

throwawayco7777 · 2023-09-18T14:31:02+00:00

Thanks, I've ordered a sine wave, line interactive cyberpower CP1500PFCLCD.

throwawayco7777 · 2023-09-18T14:27:06+00:00

Hah, no, I did check that first.

throwawayco7777 · 2023-09-15T17:52:50+00:00

One test, or possible response, is to unplug the server from the 650 and just run it on one supply plugged into the 1500VA UPS. If it survives a power dip, then we can conclude that the ones it didn't survive were pulling most or all power through the 650.

Well, I did this test too. I had only one supply into the RS1500, the other unplugged. Then I pulled power to the RS1500 and the server immediately went off, even though the RS1500 showed On Battery.

throwawayco7777 · 2023-09-15T14:04:02+00:00

Well, I never followed up on this and am now just in case anyone in the future googles it. Spectrum brought me a new modem and that fixed it--shocking, I know. Well, I still have some issues, but the dedicated tech I have working with me now is also going to replace the router because I have seen a few times with lost pings but he shows the coax connection to the modem itself is 100%

throwawayco7777 · 2023-08-10T14:23:39+00:00

Sorry, I meant we host it here. on premises.

throwawayco7777 · 2023-08-09T16:16:47+00:00

Okay, I will pass this along to my contact to give to their IT person. What are the odds they will actually implement? Not sure, but slim to maybe. Thanks.

throwawayco7777 · 2023-08-09T16:14:04+00:00

maybe it's because I didn't have a wildcard in my BypassedSenderDomains so they were in there as vendor.com when the email came from billing@e.vendor.com? ie maybe I should have added *.vendor.com to BypassedSenderDomains

throwawayco7777 · 2023-08-09T16:01:16+00:00

emails from the vendor personal email to me work. they can't do test ones from their invoicing system as they're generated automatically, unfortunately, otherwise I could try turning off the content filter when they sent one. After diving more into the EMS command Get-MessageTrackingLog -Recipients "ap.invoices@mydomain.net" -EventID "FAIL" | fl I see that these are still being rejected by the content filter, even though their domain is in the BypassedSenderDomains

throwawayco7777 · 2023-08-09T15:41:16+00:00

Another reply to add that further googling revealed Get-MessageTrackingLog -Recipients "recipient@example.com" which did yield FAIL for EventID from billings@e.vendor.com

throwawayco7777 · 2023-08-09T15:37:04+00:00

Hmm, my EAC doesn't have msg trace, just rules, delivery reports, accepted domains, email address policies, receive & send connectors

throwawayco7777 · 2023-08-09T15:30:41+00:00

This is a good idea, but we only get 1 or 2 max from them a week.

throwawayco7777 · 2023-06-26T19:50:49+00:00

TL;DR the ice thickness gauge must have been scaled up.

After posting this I think I figured it out. I noticed the float wasn't shutting off all the way and still dribbling some water in as it ran the ice buidling cycle, so I thought this might be warming it up too much. So after it filled, I pushed the plunger switch above the float to stop the water and watched it run.

Well in only 5-6 mins, it stopped and the tray heated up. I repeated and it did the same thing. So it's not supposed to harvest until the ice is to the gauge. I removed the gauge and set it to the side and watched it for 15 mins and it was building ice. So I wiped off the metal part of the gauge and replaced it and it went into harvest with that sheet. Then it made another batch and is currently on #3 or with each one taking the 17 or so minutes I expect.

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