Posts made by jt1001001

@gjacobse There's a hamfest this weekend? That the one in Horseheads?

Ok restarting with weekend pans...
A Hiking we will go! Hoping to get to Letchworth but I was over-ruled so local hiking it is

I've had good luck with both 620 and 720 so far

@scottalanmiller a LOT, amny of my friends no longer go up there. We've only been to Canada 1 time in the last 3 years because of that and other BS

well in our case it's 100%! We have a cottage in Ontario. Last few times we went up we got selected for the "random" search which of course takes 2 hours and we are extremely late getting there. So we have NOT gone up there with the kids because I do not want to go through that with a 3 and a 1 year old.

We have our own fixed wireless, pair of Ubiquiti AirFibre 24's connecting 2 buildings about 1/2 mile apart, on towers @50ft. So far even during electrical storms we have had NO issues with dropped packets or sync loss, even with tower sway in the winds. Now, our past winter was not as snowy as a normal winter so I am not sure yet how it will behave when we get one of our infamous lake effect storms but so far absolutely no issues. Key was having a professional radio company actually do the installation and line up of the dishes where they had 1 guy on each tower and 1 ground guy at each site to assist with line up.
Locally, we have a fixed wireless ISP that offers traditional Internet, MPLS, and IPVPN services. I know one of the service/operations managers there and he says most issues be traced to bad alignment of the antenna (wind over time twists the mounts causing mis-alignment) or customers not getting enough height (rather not PAYING for enough height) to clear limitations like trees. Works well in the winter when no leaves, but come spring and summer the leaves deflect the signal and speeds drop. Any fixed wireless needs an annual look-see to make sure clamps are still tight and alignment is still ok.

Wife got me a CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3 Kit for Christmas (which i STILL haven't played with) from Amazon that included pretty much everything

SO my weekend turned into take care of sick kids weekend, the 3 year old spiked a 102 fever, then the 1 year old got it and the associated runs. Didn't' get to the Science Museum as planned, but the good new is my birthday weke-end is Dino Rama weekend so taking the kids then.
This weekend is fun-at-home weekend as we are re-arranging the basement. While it sound horrible it does mean that FINALLY going to get some SPACE so I can hopefully get the lab up and running!

Wifi? Maybe a demo on capacity planning with 802.11ac? Something I'm still trying to figure out myself.
I love the Linux track idea

@fuznutz04 I use Dyn's Internet Guide at home on a separate SSID/VLAN for the "family" wifi, so far that is working well.

that would be cool, beer's better over there!

how bout moving it 70 miles west so I don't have to drive that dreadful hour on the Thruway

Going to BUBBLEMANIA at the local science museum with the kids on Sat. I havent' been to our local science museum in over 20 years but that's the place where I frst saw an electromagnet when I was 5 or 6 and kinda got bit by the science bug; hope my kids do to!
For those going to Letchworth stay dry and careful

The one contact we have is a sales guy, don't think I want him joining over here. Probably you would be looking at the VLM-200 which we got a quote for $1800 US direct from Kemp, plus whatever it was for maintenance.

TO the presenters and organizers good luck! And to everyone else, have fun! Wish I could join but family matters and pre-scheduled events will prevent me from making the hour long drive. Hopefully next year!

I saw some items on load balancing for Exchange. I will see if my team lead here has a good tech contact at Kemp and see if they can join the community.

I think I posted this before? We are converting our Forefront TMG servers to Kemp for both load balancing and reverse proxy for Lync/S4B. They support Sharepoint and offer both hardware and virtual appliances. They have a free version and paid versions as well, supports AD Auth and I think NTLM. I'm not yet a direct part of the project so I haven't deep dived into it yet.
https://kemptechnologies.com/load-balancer-sizing-sharepoint/
https://kemptechnologies.com/loadmaster-family-virtual-server-load-balancers-application-delivery-controllers/
Here is the free offering:
https://kemptechnologies.com/blog/announcing-new-free-loadmaster-application-load-balancer/

I wish I could jump. BUT T-Mobile access in the Western NY area is HORRIBLE. We get up into Niagara County and it drops off lie a cliff, and I'm not talking about what I woudl consider rural areas.

Early Sept is bad with kids starting school and sports and getting into that swing (why I can't go this year). Later Sept would be better and especially if I have a year notice then I should be able to actually make the commute!

@scottalanmiller bet I can guess who the provider was !