Best posts made by jt1001001

Took the kinds over to the airport; they had an open house for the medi-vac flight helicopter service and the airport fire hall. Turns out one of the Captains and I went to college together (small world) AND the main I-T/network guy over there was my instructor when I first got my (well, now useless but didn't now any better back then) A+ cert.

a "local" MSP tried to recruit me via LinkedIn. Checked the website; same thing a sub-doamin of US.COM. I don't think I'm applying.

@DustinB3403 Yes we have 2 of them set to auto-reboot our cable modems in the event they can't ping 8.8.8.8 and whatever the upstream router is; I have a 5 min timeout set so they ping every minute and if they do not get a response after 5 attempts power cycle the outet. So far they've worked well hand I've had them in place for maybe 2 years now. A former employee got them at a discount don't remembe where though.

The company cleaned out a storage locker yesterday. Mostly junk from an old office but one"decent" find is a Shuttle DS-81 mini PC that says "monitoring port" on it. It's a celelron so not much CPU but has dual gig nic's. Might put PFSense on it to play.

@dbeato and funny because Im working on a exchange 2010 issue...yes 2010!!! UGH

@manxam putting in a pi hole with additional filtering next week should stop the, umm, kids fromgoing places they should mot

OK late to the thread. We use a cheap travel router for this purpose. GL.iNET GL-MT300N think we paid $25 for it. Supports up to 4 SSID's and can do VLAN's though we only use 1. We can actual do wifi to wifi bridging with it. We use it for these wifi Sapling clocks that need to connect to a pre-provided WPA2-PSK ssid for initial setup.
This is the newest version: https://store.gl-inet.com/collections/travel-routers/products/gl-mt300n-v2-mini-smart-router
Can get these on Amazon now for $25

office#1: "bad" cable modem; Spectrum replaced modem no issues rest of the day (so far)
office#2: 'hmm no idea"; tech replaced modem, replaced connectors, replaced cable going to street connection (its underground we have a pipe with a pull line in it) and its working now but he was seeing very low signal. The tech escalated to their transmission techs so we will see what happens.

Sticking in town for once, everyone though is coming to our place Friday instead of Thursday

@scottalanmiller our Dell 6420 and 6430 systems are taking 5-6 hour reboots in some cases! Our other ones not nearly as long it something with those two systems and that's with the latest bios update!

@scottalanmiller and I just got my first Chromebook. Picked up one of these with a gift cert I got for Christmas:
https://www.newegg.com/poin2-lt0301-01us/p/1TS-006U-00001
So far linking it very speedy does everything I need it to do.

Office moving day, YEA! Seems like every year or so the CxO decided everyone should play musical chairs

We got "egged" this morning, neighbor left about 2 dozen plastic eggs in our yard and a note stating its for our kids to have an Easter egg hunt.

Viewing the CompTIA Network+ video series posted on here

found my old windows floppies

@siringo I don't have anything with 5 1/4 floppy drive anymore; was designed for I think the 286 generation of CPU. I just hold on to it for nostalgia

Dell through WalMart was selling some dirt cheap Windows 10 laptops about a year ago; my Mother-in-Law almost bought till I look at the specs; 4GB ram and 32GB SSD with "Windows 10 OS". Wonder if that's what your friend has. Probably got re imaged with 10 pro and not home or whatever version uses less disk space.

Debating getting lifetime PlexPass while its on sale

Celebrating

@JaredBusch Same here 4 hours on all servers, nothing extra on anything else. And that 4 hour warranty has saved my butt quite a few times and amazingly enough the techs sent out were actually competent