@stuartjordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just out of interest what are most of america's different states and Canada using in regards to internet connections? Over here in the UK we are mostly FTC now, which is copper from the property to the street cabinet then fibre to the exchange. We are still limited by distance to the cabinet in regards to what speeds we get. We also still have ADSL available, but most are not using that these days. My speed for example is now 56/10. At my old address I was right next to the cabinet and would get 70/20. Just curious if you are mostly FTTP over there.

NB Canada here. FTTH, all the way to my ERX. 100/100 for $80/mth right now but I can go up to 1.5G/940M... means that I'd have to go back to the ISP's CPE though since the ERX's WAN port is only 1G

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@stuartjordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@stuartjordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just out of interest what are most of america's different states and Canada using in regards to internet connections? Over here in the UK we are mostly FTC now, which is copper from the property to the street cabinet then fibre to the exchange. We are still limited by distance to the cabinet in regards to what speeds we get. We also still have ADSL available, but most are not using that these days. My speed for example is now 56/10. At my old address I was right next to the cabinet and would get 70/20. Just curious if you are mostly FTTP over there.

NB Canada here. FTTH, all the way to my ERX. 100/100 for $80/mth right now but I can go up to 1.5G/940M... means that I'd have to go back to the ISP's CPE though since the ERX's WAN port is only 1G

100/100 is a good speed though, do you reckon you will upgrade the line to 1gb?

Can't say that I see a need for it at the moment. Even with everyone at home full time and the simultaneous load that causes I haven't seen the line saturate unless I'm running iperf for curiosity's sake, just to make sure that I'm getting what I'm paying for.

@wrx7m said in This doesn't sound right - 3rd-Party "Deduction Management Firm":

@scottalanmiller said in This doesn't sound right - 3rd-Party "Deduction Management Firm":

@wrx7m said in This doesn't sound right - 3rd-Party "Deduction Management Firm":

This is best achieved by capturing all inbound and outbound email at a firewall and providing relevant content to Harvest via a periodic download.* "

Bwahahaha... they want a wireshark dump of encrypted data? WTF. Give them that as some enormous file that they can't even download. That will be hilarious.

Lol

Things like this bring out the BOFH in all of us...

For anyone that isn't familiar with the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got jab#1.

think my wife told me we've had 11 blood clots in Oz in the past 1-2 weeks!

@nadnerB may be able to correct me????

I thought that was all up… but I haven’t paid a lot of attention to what the actual number are. Just that it’s happening

Personally, risk of clots or other complications doesn't outweigh the benefits of staying alive.... And COVID vaccines are far from the only cause of clots, I don't see too many people being reluctant to travel, get pregnant or take birth control because of a risk of clots.... https://familydoctor.org/condition/blood-clots/ An interesting statistic posted by a friend shows that the risks of clotting from hormone-based birth control are many times higher than the observed rates of issues from vaccines.

Just some food for thought and some comparative context.

@flaxking said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

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I've been sent to the house of a former owner before, so this scenario doesn't surprise me. Sounds like it will give you some good experience anyway.

Experience for what? No business does stuff like this? They dont put a new facility in a location without wired internet access. It just isnt done.

I was referring to standard networking experience. But I guess Canada has third world internet access compared to the US, because there are lots of businesses running with wireless internet, and the percent can be high depending on the industry.

Depends where.... Everyone says that here in NB we were almost world leaders from a telecom perspective before NB Tel turned into Aliant, then Bell Aliant and then Bell Canada....

I think that part of the problem is that we're spread so thin it's hard to justify the infrastructure spend... consider that our whole country has less population than the state of California to put ROI into perspective...

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading through STIG documents.

??

My vote would be to follow your example of keeping each array together on the backplane, not sure if it's going to make a difference but that's my gut.

You're inevitably going to get a question / inquisition on why R5 on the 6 SSDs so.... counting down .... 3..... 2...... 1.....

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Can I get confirmation of accuracy?

Happy Thanksgiving you lot

Coming from a close neighbor, seems legit

Maybe I'm overthinking things but your approval / licensing process is going to come into play on this.

I'll be perfectly honest that I've not had to admin / oversee the app management side of SCCM, but in a previous gig I was doing helpdesk and deskside in an SCCM environment. In that environment the user wasn't able to view / install a managed application until they were added to the appropriate security group in AD. So the request / approval part was done via helpdesk ticketing, not an SCCM catalog. If you're licensing the target applications for everyone or if controlling access isn't a concern then I could see SCCM working.

@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Context is everything.

I took it more as globally defining variables is bad

@Pete-S
From what I understand it allows the carrier to route your assigned number either over the cell network or via the public internet, depending on what's available and activated on your phone. I can activate it on my Pixel and still get calls and sms via my regular number over the wifi when I'm at the sister-in-law's where cell service sucks.

So yes, strictly speaking it's voip but in a carrier-managed fail-over type of configuration.

Making sure that nobody breaks anything before the holidays

@Pete-S Should be on any wifi on the condition that there's nothing firewalling the service. We had to open some ports here at work to allow it out on some specific ports

Yeah, saw this go by the other day. Good for Yilan, bummer for MC (and TRMM by extension?)

I think this is going to be a "yes but...." type of answer. I think it's going to depend on what you're using as your vpn endpoints and how the network is configured at either end of the tunnel.....

Some quick reading here : https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/release-independent/nce/topics/concept/policy-based-route-based-vpn-comparing.html leads me to believe that your firewalling is integral to the policy-based vpn's creation... basically that your firewall rule action would be "ipsec" instead of allow/deny/ etc

ReadOnlyFriday before March Break with the SO and kiddos

choco got into the mix as a reliable way to keep Firefox up to date, thus allowing the OP to get rid of Chrome

Making sure that I don't break anything before the holidays start in a few hours. Out from this afternoon until the kiddos are back in school on Jan 8.

Like trying to convince anyone of anything, it's all about selling them on the WIIFM (What's In It For Me).