Best posts made by jt1001001

You can do this yourself with any sip trunk and hardware to convert to PRI. We use AdTran TOTAL Access 900e series for this as do some carriers.

@wrcombs they changed all the lighting here to these super bright LED's so even my dark little hole is lit brighter than the sun

it is a good Friday. I get to decomission a 2003 r2 server today yea!

Think I'm going to put shared mailboxes up there on my hate list along with printers; not sure yet which I hate more

Microsoft 365 outage

Any idea what happened? Couldn't get to Mangolassi this AM

Finally on PTO, week off of work to get projects done at home, or at least not in the room we use as an office

@wrcombs A number of people here have side consulting jobs I know @EddieJennings set up an LLC and does some work and got great advice from the forum. I've been reviewing it myself as I see mycompany dwindling down and Im looking for some new opportunities in 2022.

Updating resume and cover letter, former co worker has an open position at their new gig

Turned in my badge and ID. 1 week of 'pto' before I start the new gig

PTO starting at 5:30. And the nice thing is I DO NOT have to take my laptop home, or check email, or worry about something breaking, or all that jazz for a week!

Birthday parties to attend Sat, Sunday heading to our property to do some clean up and set up for Labor Day campout

Last day of PTO during which my phone ding'd twice for work things, both of which were more HR questions than IT questions but were taken care of. Boss called me today said there will be extra in my check for handling those while on PTO.

DID's lead to lots of problems ESPECIALLY when changing providers. My current company we are trying to reduce DID's because we have over a thousand, based on a lot of legacy systems and ports that were done just blindly rather than surgically. Trying to port those 1000 current DID's to a new provider is a nightmare to say the least!

The trunk to employees rule, the term I've heard is "call path". Specifically you want 1 call path for each call. You need to calculate that based on employees as well as conference calls. I do not have an hard/fast rule but you need to check with your SIP trunk provider as to the number of call paths allowed. then check again, then check a third time! I've already been burned but that carrier everyone loves to hate because they sold us supposedly 100 call paths on the trunk and it turns out they never turned on the feature (default is 25, first big conference we had with outside users many could not connect).

@scottalanmiller Business and I can't wait till I can port it out and get Skyetel https fax ATA instead!

Pretty much get my US news from BBC and CBC, I don't watch local news any more. Drives my wife nuts that I insisted on putting an antenna up just to get the Canadian TV stations to watch their national news every night.

So my two "favorite" carriers are becoming one. Lovely!
Article Here:
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/business/2016/11/07/windstream-earthlink-merging-11b-deal/93413784/

Old thread but...We just closed our Utica office, we had a 35 down 5 up cable modem from Time Warner and experienced no issues; and in fact when I called to cancel the service they offered a free upgrade to 50 down 5 up . Was going to take it but why upgrade the speed when there's NO OFFICE??

Ohh..this other server's got an SD card slot...hmm XS on SD??

Speaking of lab stuff: After my boss gets back next week, I will probably have a couple big (and very very heavy) Dell 2900 towers to get rid of. They were former lab systems for us. I know one has 16GB ram in it, no idea what the other one has, either 160 or 250GB drives and PERC raid card (might be real raid cards not sure) if anyone is interested let me know otherwise probably off to the scrap heap. note these are VERY HEAVY TOWERS so would be local pickup in Buffalo NY not going to ship. Again have to check with the boss first to make sure its OK (company gets really weird about giving stuff away for some reason). Just want to put it out there