@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

And if you look at their website, their idea of a "system engineer" includes requiring an A+ and a high school diploma. I don't think "high end" defines this place. I'm sure they are a fine, low cost MSP. But as AJ knows, they are struggling to pay entry level rates. Not the sign of a place able to afford good Cisco people, even in a market like ours where Cisco people are routinely out of work because they are a dime a dozen these days.

They aren't struggling. That's good pay for Syracuse for entry level. Besides, after six months you go up to $15.

I was looking at a job at Cisco direct as Level 3 UCS engineer paying close to $55 an hour.

$15 is not good pay for a Cisco certified goon.

@Rob-Dunn said:

@IRJ said:

Back to the thread, I have noticed that AT&T definitely throttles my connection. I get a better speed when using VPN. AT&T slows certain things down like Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, and other high traffic sources. Videos play 10 times better when I use anonymous VPN even though my connection is technically slower.

It's not throttled, it's a peering issue.

Net neutrality rules do not fix this.

All I know is Jack Kleeblat is still workin' hard on Spiceworks.

Speaking of which, Scott, he's still saying dump that zero and get with a hero.

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

@IRJ said:

Back to the thread, I have noticed that AT&T definitely throttles my connection. I get a better speed when using VPN. AT&T slows certain things down like Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, and other high traffic sources. Videos play 10 times better when I use anonymous VPN even though my connection is technically slower.

It's not throttled, it's a peering issue.

Net neutrality rules do not fix this.

If they get better speeds through a different peer, isn't it a routing issue?

There's only one route to Netflix though. And considering they peer with Level3, which tons of traffic goes through as well, it will cause a bottleneck to them.

Netflix et. al. are doing the best they can to get things over to their CDNs, which will ease congestion on that link. They also are working with ISPs on getting a peer box inside of the network to send that traffic towards instead. These things have been done in the ISP scape since the earliest days of the internet. My old ISP had upstream links with InterNAP, which would pump out super clean traffic across pipes to various game servers. When your ping is super low, as in sub 10ms to the game server, it was great.

I still cant believe how hard we trolled you that day. Jack got you good.

Microsoft's website hasn't been pingable for at least 20 years. So your ping is pretty much expected. It's hitting the MSN backbone, it's fine.

Doesn't look like you are doing double NAT, but that could be it. MS does like to use HTTPS and double NAT can do some fun things there. Remove any third party routers behind Comcast's junk.

Other than that, try another connection. Grab your phone and make it into a hot spot. If it doesn't work then, you know it's your machine itself. If it works, then something on your local network. I doubt that it's anything to do with Comcast, that big of an issue would hit up lots of news sites.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@PSX_Defector said:

I still cant believe how hard we trolled you that day. Jack got you good.

What happened? I missed this.

A backchannel kind of thing.

I use the name Jack Kleeblat for lots of things I need to troll or otherwise social engineer. A few years ago for Scott's birthday, we all went in and tried to troll him hard. I went for the jugular, playing into his innate nature with anything upstate New York and hitting on his wife. I hooked him good.

Never say that PSX_Defector doesn't know how to f***[moderated] with people. With the levels I do now, it's amazing I haven't found some job as a F500 executive or something.

Posted this over in the other place, figured might as well as my Mangolassi folks as well.

Here's one of those very strange and frankly asanine requests from people.

Customer wants a 64K NTFS cluster size across all of their disks. And I mean ALL of them, C:\ drive included. I've already said to put down the crack pipe, but apparently we are bending backwards on this.

Besides the obvious disk space issues and relatively useless on a drive with not a whole lot of giant files, I need some info to back this up. Microsoft doesn't have any yea or nay on it that I can find. I know it's possible to do, but I don't know of any legitimate Microsoft procedure to do so. So the questions are and maybe someone has some supporting documentation backing this up:

1. Is this a supported configuration for Windows Server 2012?

2. Is there a supported Microsoft method to changing the C:\ cluster size from 4K to 64K without loss of data or reinstalling?

@thecreativeone91 said:

We used to be called 'the Toby's" at one place I worked. I can't remember what movie it was from though.

Your name is TOBY!

@jevans said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Have you identified the source of the sluggishness? Is it IO, CPU, memory?

The CPU is getting hammered at least that is one area that I am for sure of now. We have ruled out the IO and Memory is/should be sufficient.

That's something to beat the users on, not upgrade and spend tons of money on hardware.

60+ users on a terminal server is nothing. I have had Citrix farms with 200 users and 15 different servers running against it on much older hardware than you got. You need to take a look at your workload and determine what is causing them to suck down the cycles.

I only drive down because flying out of Dallas to Austin is kind of pointless. Although the MEGABUS! will take you straight there as well, and there is luxury options for bus service between DFW/HOU/AUS leaving almost every hour on the hour. Trip is fast down the highways here in Texas. But ol' Black Betty does the drive well, so I take her instead.

Reminds me of this recruiter who was hitting me up for a job in Austin. Would love to move there, but had to mention to her that Dallas and Austin are almost four hours apart. Folks don't understand sometimes how big Texas is.

@garak0410 said:

Because this thing creates and modifies 100's of not 1000's of files when they make the cells, it could be encountering network congestion and it just stops with that error.

Sounds like a shitty program. Nothing should be making that many calls to files. Especially over SMB.

You might be hitting some kind of session limit. Check your file server to see if there is lots o' sessions. You can restart the server service to see if it will then let folks in.

You could also be on a path with the switch idea. El cheapo switches, with a chatty protocol like SMB, could be filling the ARP table with all kinds of garbage. If it's a commonality, bounce ye olde switch.

@BMarie said:

Sometimes I wished I had something.

I am your street pharmaceutical man.

The only thing you need the drives on the box to do is to boot up. Even then, boot from SAN has been great for the past few years. Although these are older than shit, so boot from SAN wouldn't be so hot.

Other than understanding the nuances of how blade management works and getting some practical experience with Fibre Channel, these are giant heat generators. Get it for cheap, might be worthwhile. Gonna need a SAN, and I doubt you wanna know how much a FC switch/SAN is gonna cost ya.

@tonyshowoff said:

I then started to realise I got a whole lot less done.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=amphetaclean

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Singing... talking about food.... I wish offices I worked in were not full of people gambling and discussing sports. but that's how work is.

Ughhh... all offices are like that? I just thought ours was unique since we are in the sports industry.

All of the big ones that I have been in devolve to sports and gambling.

I guess it's good I work for whom I work for. I'm the only one who really gambles. Our conversations devolve into why I have a grand sitting on my desk in $20s. I tell them it's because I'm gonna make it rain, then hit someone with it.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Most foundation problems aren't as big a deal as people make it. still easily $10,000 fix in many cases, but, if you inspect the home and it's a good deal. It's not necessarily a reason not to buy. It will scare most away so you should get a better deal as well.

Reminds me of a house I saw down on Forrest Ln. here in Dallas.

Most houses in DFW are a ranch style, flat one story with an attached garage. There is also a large contingent of two story places, but usually have a flat floor plan with another floor on top. Very few split level ranches. Well, this place became a split level. The garage had sunk so deep and so fast into the ground that the garage detached from the rest of the house. The shingles ripped apart and there was a gaping hole in the roof.

Of course, this house was most likely built in the 60s and this neighborhood has been in decline for decades at this point. Bound to happen, but strange to see it that bad.

I know you ain't coming over to my provider then. Our basic systems start at ~$300. You pay for what you get though.

@Breffni-Potter said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

There is a direct correlation between me working there and increased store sales. It wouldn't just pack up and shut down, but it would not do nearly as well as it could.

To be blunt.

If you were working for me...And you were delivering revenue, yet you were crap talking about my name and my brand online, You'd be fired, no one will tolerate that in any sector.

This is why everyone is getting at you, You cannot keep doing this.

Let's put it this way. I got laid off from the big red V and still refer to it in vague terms. My current employer has a large online presence in social media, so I will never mention them by name or even by fake vague name. And I use a pseudonym online rather than my real name.

It's not a good thing to mention your employer with your real name and include the word "sucks". Surprised it hasn't happened yet.