Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?
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@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dashrender said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
I have something else I wanted to discuss, while we're at it. They have a peculiar setup, so let me try to explain. One of the owners want to "access all the projects" from anywhere, whether it's in the office, at home or outside the office in a meeting. They previously had VPN set up, but complain that it's too slow. Tough crowd to please.
They have O365 licensing, which comes with OneDrive and asked if we can use that because they don't want to spend more money on another solution. I proposed this rig (for lack of a better word), where I shared a Sharepoint folder on the local network. This way users can access files locally, changes will replicate to SharePoint and, if someone is outside of the office, they can access the files through OneDrive (and vice-versa). I really banged my head trying to think of a better solution without adding a bunch of overhead, but feel free to chime in. I know it's not ideal, but it works. Feel free to drop comments.
I hope this all makes sense and sorry for any typos, it's a lot to drop in here. I'll check back here in an hour or so. Thank you everyone for your help, it is much appreciated.What was slow about the VPN? They do add some overhead to any transfers, but I haven't, in general, notice they affect them that bad. What upload speed do you have in the office?
Of course, it's like that MS through O365 is going to have great upload compared to most SMBs, so downloading a file from MS will likely always be possibly faster than from your office location.
As for Sharepoint - You don't get that much storage in Sharepoint in O365, so you'll likely be paying for more storage there. Sharepoint also has a number of files per site limit, just something else to watch out for.
They have Comcast cable 50 down, 5 up and those are advertised speeds so it's likely less. The only other option they have from there is to go Fiber and I gave them the quote 1 year ago and they still haven't decided...They get 1TB in SharePoint and can upgrade (by paying), the item limit is 5k per library and 20k overall so I think they're okay.
Internet performance is the big issue here then. Moving to fiber and a symmetric service would likely help with the issues that they had with VPN.
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Their internet is 10* times slower than my residential internet service.
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@dustinb3403 said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dashrender said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
I have something else I wanted to discuss, while we're at it. They have a peculiar setup, so let me try to explain. One of the owners want to "access all the projects" from anywhere, whether it's in the office, at home or outside the office in a meeting. They previously had VPN set up, but complain that it's too slow. Tough crowd to please.
They have O365 licensing, which comes with OneDrive and asked if we can use that because they don't want to spend more money on another solution. I proposed this rig (for lack of a better word), where I shared a Sharepoint folder on the local network. This way users can access files locally, changes will replicate to SharePoint and, if someone is outside of the office, they can access the files through OneDrive (and vice-versa). I really banged my head trying to think of a better solution without adding a bunch of overhead, but feel free to chime in. I know it's not ideal, but it works. Feel free to drop comments.
I hope this all makes sense and sorry for any typos, it's a lot to drop in here. I'll check back here in an hour or so. Thank you everyone for your help, it is much appreciated.What was slow about the VPN? They do add some overhead to any transfers, but I haven't, in general, notice they affect them that bad. What upload speed do you have in the office?
Of course, it's like that MS through O365 is going to have great upload compared to most SMBs, so downloading a file from MS will likely always be possibly faster than from your office location.
As for Sharepoint - You don't get that much storage in Sharepoint in O365, so you'll likely be paying for more storage there. Sharepoint also has a number of files per site limit, just something else to watch out for.
They have Comcast cable 50 down, 5 up and those are advertised speeds so it's likely less. The only other option they have from there is to go Fiber and I gave them the quote 1 year ago and they still haven't decided...They get 1TB in SharePoint and can upgrade (by paying), the item limit is 5k per library and 20k overall so I think they're okay.
Internet performance is the big issue here then. Moving to fiber and a symmetric service would likely help with the issues that they had with VPN.
Ultimately my concern would be the syncing of files into Sharepoint in the first place.
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@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
They get 1TB in SharePoint and can upgrade (by paying), the item limit is 5k per library and 20k overall so I think they're okay.
Be careful here, cad part files can add up extremely quickly. I'm not in architecture, but our average job folder has 2k+ files. You'd burn through 20k files pretty quick if that's the case there too.
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@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
I haven't used BackBlaze B2, but looks simple and cheap so I think I will go with that for cloud backups.
Cheap yes, simple, no. B2 is pure object storage, nothing else. There is no "backup mechanism", this is purely tertiary storage for you to backup onto. You need to provide all of the backup software and planning and capabilities.
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@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
They also have a ton of old projects that they will likely not need, unless there is an audit or catastrophe, so I was thinking of moving that to AWS Glacier or Azure Cool storage.
Is Glacier cheap enough to justify that compared to B2? Having two storage locations instead of one will diminish your economy of scale while making you have to manually do a lot more work. I'd keep it all in B2. Keep it simple.
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@dustinb3403 said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
You might be surprised, AWS Glacier is pretty damn slow and is meant for files that are expected to never have to be accessed.
Assume days or weeks to recover.
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@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dashrender said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
I have something else I wanted to discuss, while we're at it. They have a peculiar setup, so let me try to explain. One of the owners want to "access all the projects" from anywhere, whether it's in the office, at home or outside the office in a meeting. They previously had VPN set up, but complain that it's too slow. Tough crowd to please.
They have O365 licensing, which comes with OneDrive and asked if we can use that because they don't want to spend more money on another solution. I proposed this rig (for lack of a better word), where I shared a Sharepoint folder on the local network. This way users can access files locally, changes will replicate to SharePoint and, if someone is outside of the office, they can access the files through OneDrive (and vice-versa). I really banged my head trying to think of a better solution without adding a bunch of overhead, but feel free to chime in. I know it's not ideal, but it works. Feel free to drop comments.
I hope this all makes sense and sorry for any typos, it's a lot to drop in here. I'll check back here in an hour or so. Thank you everyone for your help, it is much appreciated.What was slow about the VPN? They do add some overhead to any transfers, but I haven't, in general, notice they affect them that bad. What upload speed do you have in the office?
Of course, it's like that MS through O365 is going to have great upload compared to most SMBs, so downloading a file from MS will likely always be possibly faster than from your office location.
As for Sharepoint - You don't get that much storage in Sharepoint in O365, so you'll likely be paying for more storage there. Sharepoint also has a number of files per site limit, just something else to watch out for.
They have Comcast cable 50 down, 5 up and those are advertised speeds so it's likely less. The only other option they have from there is to go Fiber and I gave them the quote 1 year ago and they still haven't decided...They get 1TB in SharePoint and can upgrade (by paying), the item limit is 5k per library and 20k overall so I think they're okay.
In a business? That's ridiculously slow. No wonder their VPN feels slow for CAD. A VPN adds overhead and latency. In the real world, you'll be lucky if this gets 2-3Mb/s throughput. SMB (the Windows file transfer protocol) is not meant for use over a WAN and is very inefficient for this. Considering a 100Mb/s low latency local network connection is noticeably slow today and 1Gb/s is typical moving to 5Mb/s with high latency, VPN overhead and shared between all users on the network could easily mean a difference of 3,000x!
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@dustinb3403 said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
Their internet is 10* times slower than my residential internet service.
Yeah, I get 160Mb/s at home and could upgrade if it wasn't enough.
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@scottalanmiller said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dustinb3403 said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
Their internet is 10* times slower than my residential internet service.
Yeah, I get 160Mb/s at home and could upgrade if it wasn't enough.
I'm getting 500/50 at my residence, and could still move up to 1000/100
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@scottalanmiller said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dustinb3403 said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
Their internet is 10* times slower than my residential internet service.
Yeah, I get 160Mb/s at home and could upgrade if it wasn't enough.
Yeah this is about what I have. I think my max option is 300/60.
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@scottalanmiller said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dashrender said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
I have something else I wanted to discuss, while we're at it. They have a peculiar setup, so let me try to explain. One of the owners want to "access all the projects" from anywhere, whether it's in the office, at home or outside the office in a meeting. They previously had VPN set up, but complain that it's too slow. Tough crowd to please.
They have O365 licensing, which comes with OneDrive and asked if we can use that because they don't want to spend more money on another solution. I proposed this rig (for lack of a better word), where I shared a Sharepoint folder on the local network. This way users can access files locally, changes will replicate to SharePoint and, if someone is outside of the office, they can access the files through OneDrive (and vice-versa). I really banged my head trying to think of a better solution without adding a bunch of overhead, but feel free to chime in. I know it's not ideal, but it works. Feel free to drop comments.
I hope this all makes sense and sorry for any typos, it's a lot to drop in here. I'll check back here in an hour or so. Thank you everyone for your help, it is much appreciated.What was slow about the VPN? They do add some overhead to any transfers, but I haven't, in general, notice they affect them that bad. What upload speed do you have in the office?
Of course, it's like that MS through O365 is going to have great upload compared to most SMBs, so downloading a file from MS will likely always be possibly faster than from your office location.
As for Sharepoint - You don't get that much storage in Sharepoint in O365, so you'll likely be paying for more storage there. Sharepoint also has a number of files per site limit, just something else to watch out for.
They have Comcast cable 50 down, 5 up and those are advertised speeds so it's likely less. The only other option they have from there is to go Fiber and I gave them the quote 1 year ago and they still haven't decided...They get 1TB in SharePoint and can upgrade (by paying), the item limit is 5k per library and 20k overall so I think they're okay.
In a business? That's ridiculously slow.
Really? I suppose it really matters more what you are doing with it. The last time I looked at business connections from Cox a 50/5 cost around $150/month. My 100/20 costs me around $340 month.
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@dashrender said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@scottalanmiller said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dustinb3403 said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
Their internet is 10* times slower than my residential internet service.
Yeah, I get 160Mb/s at home and could upgrade if it wasn't enough.
Yeah this is about what I have. I think my max option is 300/60.
160 is my upload.
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@dashrender said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@scottalanmiller said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dashrender said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
I have something else I wanted to discuss, while we're at it. They have a peculiar setup, so let me try to explain. One of the owners want to "access all the projects" from anywhere, whether it's in the office, at home or outside the office in a meeting. They previously had VPN set up, but complain that it's too slow. Tough crowd to please.
They have O365 licensing, which comes with OneDrive and asked if we can use that because they don't want to spend more money on another solution. I proposed this rig (for lack of a better word), where I shared a Sharepoint folder on the local network. This way users can access files locally, changes will replicate to SharePoint and, if someone is outside of the office, they can access the files through OneDrive (and vice-versa). I really banged my head trying to think of a better solution without adding a bunch of overhead, but feel free to chime in. I know it's not ideal, but it works. Feel free to drop comments.
I hope this all makes sense and sorry for any typos, it's a lot to drop in here. I'll check back here in an hour or so. Thank you everyone for your help, it is much appreciated.What was slow about the VPN? They do add some overhead to any transfers, but I haven't, in general, notice they affect them that bad. What upload speed do you have in the office?
Of course, it's like that MS through O365 is going to have great upload compared to most SMBs, so downloading a file from MS will likely always be possibly faster than from your office location.
As for Sharepoint - You don't get that much storage in Sharepoint in O365, so you'll likely be paying for more storage there. Sharepoint also has a number of files per site limit, just something else to watch out for.
They have Comcast cable 50 down, 5 up and those are advertised speeds so it's likely less. The only other option they have from there is to go Fiber and I gave them the quote 1 year ago and they still haven't decided...They get 1TB in SharePoint and can upgrade (by paying), the item limit is 5k per library and 20k overall so I think they're okay.
In a business? That's ridiculously slow.
Really? I suppose it really matters more what you are doing with it. The last time I looked at business connections from Cox a 50/5 cost around $150/month. My 100/20 costs me around $340 month.
Right, and is Cox really a business class solution provider?
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My 500/50 cost me $75, which is faster then everything being mentioned here, and cheaper!
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@scottalanmiller said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dashrender said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@scottalanmiller said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dustinb3403 said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
Their internet is 10* times slower than my residential internet service.
Yeah, I get 160Mb/s at home and could upgrade if it wasn't enough.
Yeah this is about what I have. I think my max option is 300/60.
160 is my upload.
oh holy crap! yeah, that will cost a fortune here.
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@dustinb3403 said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
My 500/50 cost me $75, which is faster then everything being mentioned here, and cheaper!
Also consumer - find out how much that is for a business.
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@dashrender said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dustinb3403 said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
My 500/50 cost me $75, which is faster then everything being mentioned here, and cheaper!
Also consumer - find out how much that is for a business.
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@dustinb3403 said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dashrender said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dustinb3403 said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
My 500/50 cost me $75, which is faster then everything being mentioned here, and cheaper!
Also consumer - find out how much that is for a business.
https://i.imgur.com/ICDCbPQ.png
going to be hard pressed to find a business owner who's paying $100/month for internet to suddenly pay 7x that unless there is a business need where that's a good spend. -
@dashrender said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
@dustinb3403 said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:
My 500/50 cost me $75, which is faster then everything being mentioned here, and cheaper!
Also consumer - find out how much that is for a business.
This is what you can get in my hometown.
