Does procrastinating count?

Coffee, lots of coffee

@Emad-R Welcome to the country. While Toronto isn't likely to be as cold as the prairies in the winter, the only place you're going to avoid the cold is on the west coast. Can't really advise with regards to the job hunt, but you might get more help if you specify what kind of jobs you're interested in / what your qualifications are.

Best of luck!

And just regular SATA SSDs

Was looking at some of the stuff online with one of the other guys here this AM. Maxed out it's estimated to hit $35k USD

Bah, still looks like an overpriced cheese grater

Is any of the core networking offsite (vpn or cloud)? If it's a domain and your DC / DNS is in the cloud or offsite and accessed over a VPN I could see this happening

It feels like the OP thinks that this is a seller's forum as opposed to a group of IT professionals looking to help each other out. Or just trolling to waste time. Or a college kid who was given an assignment and is looking for us to provide the answer.

@scottalanmiller said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

@notverypunny said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

You should be OK with a laptop for these speeds.

A laptop, yes. That's not the point. The issue is something with this particular setup, laptop or whatever, can't get the speeds so testing with it doesn't tell him anything useful.

I've run into issues specifically for laptops where I couldn't get decent speeds, something either with the HW specifically or power-management / network stack wouldn't allow me to get the same speeds as a server / workstation connected to the exact same port / equipment. Regardless, you're correct that this laptop seems to have issues.

Is the package 100MB up and down? Is it a full 100 or a "burstable" setup (not sure how common this one is, but at a former gig we had a line that was provisioned at one speed but would allow temporary surges to another tier before automatically throttling back to the base rate.)

using iperf3
DOWNLOAD SPEEDS

iperf3 -c iperf.he.net -R -P 10

UPLOAD SPEEDS

iperf3 -c iperf.he.net -P 10

You can check a list of public iperf servers :
https://iperf.fr/iperf-servers.php
if you're in another region or if the HE ones are too busy

You should be OK with a laptop for these speeds.

I'd suggest trying a linux install with iperf3. You could try iperf3 on Windows but my recent adventures with it have shown that iperf on Windows is garbage, vastly inferior results when compared to the linux install.

Other thing to consider is your AV and security stuff on windows... might have to tweak exceptions or disable it (temporarily)

Hold music hell trying to get an update on an ISP support ticket at one of our sites

@Phil-CommQuotes

Hey Phil, I'll keep you in mind when we're shopping / renegotiating next time around. I don't think we can do anything in the short-term because if memory serves we're under contract for that site. Right now my issue isn't the cost but the line quality, and from what we've learned, regardless of who's billing, it's all the same infrastructure for the optical service so jitter and latency is likely to be the same regardless of what we do.

WOOT WOOT!! this seems to have fixed things.

Now if I could just get a decent ISP connection in Knoxville...

• does an IP scanner (advanced IP scanner, angry IP scanner etc) find the .100 IP from one of the client boxes and see shares?
• does the MAC for the above scan match what's on the server (ie. do you have a duplicate IP on the network)
• is this something that was working and stopped or a new share that you can't get off the ground?

UPDATE:

Had a call with Fortigate support this AM and I'll be trying the following either later tonight or first thing tomorrow AM before anything important is happening on the network:

host-shortcut-mode {bi-directional | host-shortcut}
Due to NP6 internal packet buffer limitations, some offloaded packets received at a 10Gbps interface and destined for a 1Gbps interface can be dropped, reducing performance for TCP and IP tunnel traffic. If you experience this performance reduction, you can use the following command to disable offloading sessions passing from 10Gbps interfaces to 1Gbps interfaces:

config system npu

set host-shortcut-mode host-shortcut

end

Select host-shortcut to stop offloading TCP and IP tunnel packets passing from 10Gbps interfaces to 1Gbps interfaces. TCP and IP tunnel packets passing from 1Gbps interfaces to 10Gbps interfaces are still offloaded as normal.

If host-shortcut is set to the default bi-directional setting, packets in both directions are offloaded.

This option is only available if your FortiGate has 10G and 1G interfaces accelerated by NP6 processors.

RESOLVED:

Coincidentally the cert on the WSUS server expired yesterday, so we should be back to "normal" once a valid cert is in place

Since I'm a strong believer in the whole "Eat your own dog food" I'm seeing this on W10 1803 systems after applying the last round of updates.

Both systems I'm troubleshooting have the correct date, time and time zone. One of the other admins has the same thing happening on his machines, hoping to get a handle on this before it hits the users...

• WSUS is synced and using proper date, time, and timezone.
• I haven't seen it first-hand but am hearing reports that it's hitting some of our W7 installs as well.
• sfc /scannow states that it finds and fixes errors but doesn't resolve the issue.

Anyone else seeing this?

We've also got some systems that seem to be borking their NIC drivers, from what the 1st level guys are saying it seems to be Intel NICs on the Asus boards used in our CAD / design machines.

** knock on wood** nothing seems to be going wrong with the servers this time around

@scotth said in Non-IT News Thread:

@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:

@NashBrydges said in Non-IT News Thread:

@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews In other news, hundreds are dead after a Japanese bullet train derailed and collided with a mountain at 248mph.

Damn! That took a dark turn rather quickly

I would probably trust a Japanese bullet train over an American one, but that's really fast for traveling on a couple of iron rails.

Uhm, isn't a high speed bullet train designed to ride on repulsive magnetic lift technology, not rails?