Re: [AFMUG] VMWare

2022-07-16 Thread Charles Boening 
I saw the same issue with Windows is Proxmox.  I have one customer still using 
it but will change it out when the chance arises.  It's just "ok" at best IMO.

We're VMware Essentials Plus backed by an on-site and off-site replicated HPE 
Nimble SAN.

Not a Hyper-V fan.  Have seen too many installations go sideways and switch to 
VMware.  One was a small regional hospital who had nothing but issues.

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Proxmox has a good feature set for a fraction of the cost.  VMWare has some 
extra niceties, but for 10x the money.

My current employer is using VMWare.  The previous two had Proxmox.  I like 
them both just fine, but if I was writing the check I'd pick Proxmox every time.

that said, my Windows VM's always seemed a little pokey in Proxmox, even 
with the drivers installed.  If I was Windows heavy I might feel different.

-Adam



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I run proxmox at PacketFlux for our MES and other internal servers.

I'm not sure if I'd consider anything else.

My architecture is replicated vms and data with backup.   If I had a bigger 
cluster I'd do some sort of distributed file system.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 12:44 PM Mark - Myakka Technologies 
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We  had  a  slight  electric  issue  yesterday.  Messed up some of our
VM  servers.   I  got things rigged back together, but I need to build a more
robust VM system.

I'm  look  to  move  into  the  VMWare  world.  I think Vmware Vsphere
Essentials Plus is the route I need to go.  I may be able to get away
with just Essentials, but the extra tools may help.

Any  thoughts  on  setup.  Currently we run RAID10 on each VM Host and
backup to a NAS.  I'm thinking I'll keep that setup for the VMWare.

If  I  get Essentials Plus will I be able to to HOT backups of running
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Re: [AFMUG] Self Contained DSLAM?

2021-04-20 Thread Charles Boening 
No.  Can be web managed.

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Wouldn't that require CMS?

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On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 5:01 PM Charles Boening 
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Calix E3?


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I have a situation where I need to get internet over copper lines about 
2,000feet.

What options exist?   I have several different buildings I need to get
to, all which come back to a central junction point with copper pairs.

Considering a DSLAM... but I don't need authentication.Does anyone
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Re: [AFMUG] Self Contained DSLAM?

2021-04-20 Thread Charles Boening 
Calix E3?


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I have a situation where I need to get internet over copper lines about 
2,000feet.

What options exist?   I have several different buildings I need to get
to, all which come back to a central junction point with copper pairs.

Considering a DSLAM... but I don't need authentication.Does anyone
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Re: [AFMUG] DHCPatriot

2021-02-22 Thread Charles Boening 
Right.  We have our telco backend billing system (MACC) and some other custom 
stuff we handle it all out of.

We use an in-house developed user management system for creating logins, 
managing email accounts and assigning radios/routers for provisioning.

We’re mostly Cambium at this point.  Working on a few legacy WiMAX conversions 
still.  It’s all RADIUS for bandwidth settings, VLANs and such though for both 
systems.  We just put the user in the system with the radio MAC and a billing 
code.  The rest is handled by a custom RADIUS authentication module we wrote.

We are using SmartRG and Calix routers.  Since we have them in inventory 
already, we assign the MAC to the customer and it’s automatically authenticated 
with the Patriot system.  Disconnects are automatically suspended.  A router 
swap will suspend the old device and authenticate the new device.

Unknown wireless radios aren’t authorized and known radios not assigned to a 
customer get a 256k/256k plan.  

We also enforce simultaneous use from the Patriot system.  If a customer has 
our router then connects their own, the original lease would be suspended on 
expiration.  If they reconnect the other router, it’s suspended so they would 
have to authenticate again.  If they try to authenticate multiple devices, the 
leases will expire and they will have to login again.  There is also a 
simultaneous use report from the Patriot system we can look at.


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So I take it you don't run a Powercode/Sonar/VISP/etc?  Instead you run 
DHCPatriot?

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It does run Linux under the hood and I believe ISC DHCP.

Essentially, I think they have tapped into the lease hooks ISC provided and run 
custom scripts.  I’ve never seen the code but that’s what I expect based on 
some ISC customization I’ve done to populate database information when a lease 
is issued or released.

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The telco I sold my WISP to used it as well. I always wondered why, but never 
asked. I just assumed it was one of those "If it's free, it can't be good" 
decisions made by a pointy-haired boss. I just checked into their website. 
There's a chart there on the home page that shows how obviously awesome it is 
and how obviously un-awesome the open source ones are. Mostly marketing hype 
I'd guess. In fact, I'd bet it's an open source DHCP server dressed up in a 
pretty package with fancy reports and such.

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What is it?
I can Google it.
But it doesnt seem interesting

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A company I am partnered with uses DHCPatriot to serve all of its customers.  I 
have never understood what is magic about this compared to free DHCP.

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Re: [AFMUG] DHCPatriot

2021-02-21 Thread Charles Boening 
It does run Linux under the hood and I believe ISC DHCP.

Essentially, I think they have tapped into the lease hooks ISC provided and run 
custom scripts.  I’ve never seen the code but that’s what I expect based on 
some ISC customization I’ve done to populate database information when a lease 
is issued or released.

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The telco I sold my WISP to used it as well. I always wondered why, but never 
asked. I just assumed it was one of those "If it's free, it can't be good" 
decisions made by a pointy-haired boss. I just checked into their website. 
There's a chart there on the home page that shows how obviously awesome it is 
and how obviously un-awesome the open source ones are. Mostly marketing hype 
I'd guess. In fact, I'd bet it's an open source DHCP server dressed up in a 
pretty package with fancy reports and such.

Craig


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What is it?
I can Google it.
But it doesnt seem interesting

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A company I am partnered with uses DHCPatriot to serve all of its customers.  I 
have never understood what is magic about this compared to free DHCP.

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Re: [AFMUG] DHCPatriot

2021-02-21 Thread Charles Boening 
We use one (clustered pair) and really like it.  Essentially it's a captive 
portal that does authentication.  Think authenticated DHCP.

You have a new customer.  They connect their router and get a private IP.  That 
IP is forced to the Patriot system via policy routing.  In our case, we shove a 
couple private IP subnets into an MPLS VRF for transport then pop them out and 
handle that last connection with a policy forcing a next hop to the Patriot.  
Replies don't traverse the VRF nor do they need to.

The customer enters a username/password.  The authentication can be done 
locally within the Patriot system or externally via RADIUS.  We use RADIUS.

Once successfully authenticated, the customer reboots their device, pulls the 
cable and plugs it back in, or wait a few minutes for then unauthenticated 
lease to expire.  At that point, they get online with their public IP.

We use a web API to pre-auth customers who use a router we provide.  Since we 
know the MAC, username and password, we can pre-authenticate the device so the 
customer never sees the login screen.  This is also helpful for customers with 
devices that don't have a web interface for some reason.

You can suspend a customer and they will go back to a private IP.  In the 
captive portal, you can relay a message that was entered when they were 
suspended.  The nice thing here is you don't have to disable a customer 
interface or something.  Most customers will try a browser so they'll see the 
portal login with whatever suspend message.  It seems to help keep them from 
factory resetting things and playing with cables.

Static IP pools are useful as well.  The customer is authenticated and gets the 
same IP every time.  There are a couple of ways to do this but RADIUS and a 
static pool works best for us.

To prevent users from assigning static IPs, we turn MAC forced forwarding and 
IP Source Verify on in our Calix systems.  Not every system has the capability 
but we use it where we can and monitor ARP tables for the rest.  You can easily 
use the Patriot API to dump all authenticated customers and insert them into a 
database.  You can do the same with your router ARP tables then compare.

The user interface isn't fancy but works really well.  It's nice to be able to 
search history for a customer including raw DHCP logs.  You can also see and 
search on Option 82 information.

The portal splash page is customizable as well.

Their customer service and support is top notch.

Last, I have no affiliation with these guys.  Just a happy customer.

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A company I am partnered with uses DHCPatriot to serve all of its customers.  I 
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Re: [AFMUG] Battery recommendations at fiber hut

2021-02-03 Thread Charles Boening 

We got a quote from Power & Tel for a 100Ah Narada unit and it was half the 
price of a 100Ah PSI unit.

https://mpinarada.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Narada-NPFC-FLS-NA-V1R11.pdf

Also found some software that runs on a Pi to remote monitor.  Not sure how 
good any of it is or what else is out there.

https://www.microfusion.org/Software/solstus/

https://iccsoftware.co.za/product/icc-pi/

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So those are the battery?  What does the cost look like?

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 6:48 AM Louis Arsenault 
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We have been using PowerTec Solutions
https://www.powertecsolutions.net/solutions/#psi-micro-vision-48v-rackmount-battery-series
We have 4 of them setup in the fiber hut.
They have a BMS to protect the batteries from overcharging / overcurrenting

On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 3:33 PM Josh Luthman 
mailto:j...@imaginenetworksllc.com>> wrote:
I'm looking at a 1200 watt load and would like to see 2 or 3 hours of run time. 
 Everything's 48vdc.

I'm kind of leary about using lithium ion since I'm using an ICT power supply 
and their system is designed for SLA/AGM.

What kind of things should I be looking for?  I thought these looked pretty 
good:
https://www.batteriesplus.com/productdetails/battery/sla-sealed-lead-acid/12/wkdc12=80pus

12v*80a=960whr
4 of these = 3840whr
Runtime upwards of 3.2 hours (obviously there will be loss, but shouldn't I 
expect 2+ hours)?

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Re: [AFMUG] Calix snmp

2021-01-11 Thread Charles Boening 
On our E7-2, all interfaces appear in the IF-MIB.  Although stranger things 
have happened, I would think the E7-20 would be the same.

From a Linux box try running something like this.  Change the community and E7 
IP to suit.  

snmpwalk -v2c -c public 192.168.1.100 ifName




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Is this an E7-20 or an E7-2?

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Anyone know how to add a graph via snmp to my upstream ethernet connection on 
E7 SCP GE1 port?
We are trying to use Zabbix.

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Re: [AFMUG] Old Phone Question

2020-12-22 Thread Charles Boening 
I think this is what we used to interface with an old key system that had a 
line in input.  I think Viking has something similar.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/745342-REG/Bogen_Communications_TAMB2_TAMB2_Telephone_Access_Module.html

http://www.bogen.com/products/pdfs/telephonepagepdfs/TAMB2s.pdf


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So I'm not saying it's old but this was put in when I was still in High 
School

Valcom V-2001 paging system.  I'm looking to convert the driving phone system 
over to VoIP.

I've found the manual here.  https://www.valcom.com/pdf/v-2001.pdf

It references terms I'm not familiar with.  It says 'Compatible with Any 
Electronic Key or PABX'  Does that mean that I can use an ATA to plug into it?  
Or is this something special?

There are currently wires hooked up to contacts labeled 'Page Tip/Page Ring'  
And 'UNA Ringing' (2 wires)  I"m guessing Page Tip/ring are the 2 wires that 
would run to the ATA, but what is UNA Ringing?

Anybody hooked one of these up to an ATA before?


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Re: [AFMUG] VoIP emulation of Key system

2020-11-06 Thread Charles Boening 
For some reason I thought I saw some Mitel phones (maybe others) support a 
"shared line appearance" where you could register a bunch of phones to a single 
line and they would share line state thus emulating a key system.



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This drives me crazy.  Small businesses have had key telephone systems
for 50 years.  They have a button for each physical line, they put a
call on hold, and then shout across the building, "Hey JOEY! Line 3 is
for you!"  Then Joey pushes line 3 on his phone.

You can't get these people to do a transfer.  Park buttons are an ok
stopgap, but not the same because now they have two ways to put a call
on hold and they have to remember NOT to use the clearly marked "hold"
button.  Is there a particular VoIP phone or VoIP system that can
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Re: [AFMUG] a basic question

2020-08-26 Thread Charles Boening 
How about this?

Microsoft has finally implemented an official way to use both Static and 
Dynamic IP simultaneously on one NIC. Reportedly, this feature was added in 
Windows 10 Creators Update 1703.

The key to using this feature is the new dhcpstaticipcoexistence parameter in 
netsh.

https://trae.sk/view/34/

https://superuser.com/questions/679134/add-a-static-ip-alias-to-a-dhcp-interface-on-windows-8-and-above




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I feel silly asking this but I honestly don’t know if there is a better way.
Willing to risk the embarrassment of a simple answer.

Frequently plugging a laptop into a management port or something.  192.168.1.1  
So I need to set the laptop IP manually to 192.168.1.11 or some such thing.
Then I find I immediately need to connect to some DHCP device and right back to 
the management port.  And then to perhaps check email I need to go to a 
10.x.x.x or a 172 subnet internally.

Once upon a time I wrote some scripts and associated them with icons to 
reconfig the ethernet IPV4 settings to various things I need to access from 
time to time.
Is there a better way where I will never have to change configs?
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Re: [AFMUG] OT Might be political - trigger warning

2020-07-10 Thread Charles Boening 
Not necessarily.  Hit someone in right spot and they can bleed out in a very 
short period of time.

Here’s an example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwOJ4AIa6w4=1594402756


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Is it deadly force to shoot them in the leg so they can’t keep running? Easier 
to recover from a leg wound than a shot to the heart.


On Jul 10, 2020, at 10:52 AM, Carl Peterson 
mailto:cpeter...@portnetworks.com>> wrote:

Personal feeling is that unless they present a clear immediate danger to 
someone in the immediate vicinity, deadly force is unjustified.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 11:48 AM Bill Prince 
mailto:part15...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I think every situation is different. I also believe the police, in general, 
have been given more slack than they should for quite some time. The issue is 
how to deal with this. I do not envy cops. I have a nephew who is a cop, and I 
worry about him all the time.
One of the more recent cases was an individual who was resisting arrest. He 
grabbed, and fired a taser. As I understand it, most tasers are one-and-done. 
IOW, once the taser has been fired, the only "weapon" characteristics it has 
are as a thrown projectile. That individual was running away, and was shot in 
the back. Was that justified? I would have a hard time accepting that as a 
justified homicide. But that is only one example.
With the proliferation of cameras everywhere, this sort of thing is going to 
come up more and more.


bp




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I am largely ignorant of the issues faced in world of law enforcement.
And perhaps this is a broader philosophical question with no clear answers.

A guy, alone at night, in a city, near the location of a reported armed robbery 
is confronted by cops,  takes off running.
He drops what appears to be a gun, picks it up and keeps running, should he be 
shot?

I understand that he may take a hostage or start shooting or whatever.  He may 
turn the gun on the cops.
I remember old cop and robber movies when I was a kid where the cop would yell 
“stop or I’ll shoot”.

We had the above situation happen here in Utah a while back.  Cops were found 
to have done no wrong.
People are understandably upset.
A few years ago, a young man playing with a sword was stopped by cops, he took 
off running with the sword and they shot and killed him.
I presume the same justifications apply.

I wonder how often someone with a weapon does harm after evading the cops.
I wonder how other countries confront the same problem.
If a human gets scared and runs due to uncontrolled fear, should they be shot?

I was only truly scared once in my life.  Was in a bank robbery.
I understand that your rational thinking goes out the window a bit when you are 
really scared.


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Re: [AFMUG] Good Switches

2020-07-02 Thread Charles Boening 
Ah.  Got it.  I kind of figured the hardware was somewhat generic since they 
are running a Linux kernel underneath.

Thanks 

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Yes to all. Except hardware possibly depending on what you are using. A good 
portion of there hardware is just a whitebox with their software. EX T-Metro 
7224 is a generic broadcom switch that was also used by Alcatel.


On 7/2/2020 12:09 PM, Charles Boening wrote:
Interesting.  Appreciate the feedback.  We haven’t used any of their gear.  
Most of our switching is various Juniper flavors backed by MX routers.

Anything in particular on the Telco Systems side that warrants the warning?  
Bad support?  Bad hardware?  Bad software?  Full of crap!  


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Yeah I will second the run from telco systems.
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Been looking at these guys. Never used them but pricing seems competitive.

On the L3 side, they don't have DHCP relay or IPv6 features. They are "roadmap" 
items they claim "should" be out by the end of the year. Those are a deal 
breaker for us but YMMV. It's definitely a switch/edge device and not targeted 
at core routing.

One thing I really like is the smaller form (<14" deep) and dual -48VDC input. 
They have AC and 24VDC as well.

https://www.telco.com/products-by-category/ethernet-mpls-aggregation/t-metro-8104


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So who's your preferred vendor for carrier switches?

Suppose you want to break away from buggy Latvian switches, who would
you look at today?

Ciena? Adtran? Cisco? Juniper?



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Re: [AFMUG] Good Switches

2020-07-02 Thread Charles Boening 
Interesting.  Appreciate the feedback.  We haven’t used any of their gear.  
Most of our switching is various Juniper flavors backed by MX routers.

Anything in particular on the Telco Systems side that warrants the warning?  
Bad support?  Bad hardware?  Bad software?  Full of crap!  


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Yeah I will second the run from telco systems.
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Been looking at these guys. Never used them but pricing seems competitive.

On the L3 side, they don't have DHCP relay or IPv6 features. They are "roadmap" 
items they claim "should" be out by the end of the year. Those are a deal 
breaker for us but YMMV. It's definitely a switch/edge device and not targeted 
at core routing.

One thing I really like is the smaller form (<14" deep) and dual -48VDC input. 
They have AC and 24VDC as well.

https://www.telco.com/products-by-category/ethernet-mpls-aggregation/t-metro-8104


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So who's your preferred vendor for carrier switches?

Suppose you want to break away from buggy Latvian switches, who would
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Ciena? Adtran? Cisco? Juniper?



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Re: [AFMUG] Good Switches

2020-07-01 Thread Charles Boening 
Been looking at these guys.  Never used them but pricing seems competitive.

On the L3 side, they don't have DHCP relay or IPv6 features.  They are 
"roadmap" items they claim "should" be out by the end of the year.  Those are a 
deal breaker for us but YMMV.  It's definitely a switch/edge device and not 
targeted at core routing.

One thing I really like is the smaller form (<14" deep) and dual -48VDC input.  
They have AC and 24VDC as well.

https://www.telco.com/products-by-category/ethernet-mpls-aggregation/t-metro-8104


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So who's your preferred vendor for carrier switches?

Suppose you want to break away from buggy Latvian switches, who would
you look at today?

Ciena? Adtran? Cisco? Juniper?



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Re: [AFMUG] OT: Voip Innovations Support

2020-02-21 Thread Charles Boening 
We’re in the same boat.  Have the connection to VI but don’t really do much 
with them.  Too many issues routing to rural areas (part of that national rural 
call termination issue) a few years back.  They weren’t terribly interested in 
fixing it so we weren’t interested in routing traffic to them.

We have CenturyLink, Thinq and Bandwidth.  I like Thinq the best as they have 
some good controls on the carriers they use.  They give you a lot of control on 
how your traffic routes.



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The switch operators I work closely with have mostly abandoned VI.  
Outages/Issues seem to be increasing as well.

We have a trunk through them but don't send much traffic.

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Nate Burke wrote on 2/19/20 09:18:

Has anyone noticed a change with VI Support since Sangoma took over?  Without 
any data to back it up, it fees like I'm sitting on hold longer before someone 
picks up.  They can still always solve my problem when I get through to 
someone, But they all sound like they're sitting in the middle of a coffee 
shop, or in a train station, there is so much background noise, people yelling, 
music playing, etc.  I'm on right now and it sounds like she's on an airplane, 
like there is rushing wind behind her.

I still have no complaints about the quality of the service, it just seems like 
something with Live support has changed.

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Re: [AFMUG] Email Hosting

2019-06-10 Thread Charles Boening 
That’s for sure.  Took me years to get rid of them.  They are VERY persistent.


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Just be warned that they’ll never leave you alone if they get your number. I 
ended up blocking their number on our phone system.

On Jun 10, 2019, at 11:44, Mark - Myakka Technologies 
mailto:m...@mailmt.com>> wrote:
Matt,

You should check out the linuxmagic guys.  I was in the same boat years ago.  
Got sick and tired of deal with maintenance and updates.  Now I have a system 
in house that I can access logs and look things up for customer, but I don't 
have to worry about updates and maintenance.  They are great guys to work with. 
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Re: [AFMUG] Indoor Battery Backups

2019-06-05 Thread Charles Boening 
We’ve had good success with the CyberPower CPS1500AVR coupled with the 
RMCARD205 for SNMP management.  IIRC it’s not true sine wave but so far they 
have worked out well.  We have about 35 to 40 installed.  I think we land them 
for around $430 including the management card.

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Does anyone have recommendations on what has been working well for them as far 
as UPS / battery backups for installations that are climate controlled?  It 
seems like overkill to install something like an Alpha in a situation like this.

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Re: [AFMUG] Calix Gigacenters - how difficult to implement?

2018-11-19 Thread Charles Boening 
+1

We went with SmartRG back when it was ClearAccess (just over 10 years now).  
IMO they have the nicest ACS out there.  Couple that with their new 
analytics<https://www.smartrg.com/home-analytics> and it’s a nice win.

We are deploying the SR555ac<https://www.smartrg.com/sr555ac> as a single 
device for Ethernet, xDSL and bonded xDSL.

I just wish SmartRG had a nice whole home wireless setup.  Something where we 
could deploy range extenders or whole home wireless that worked with the router 
to keep SSID and security in sync.  I heard they were coming out with something 
this year but haven’t seen it yet.

SmartRG is looking at TR-143 for FCC testing.  They say they should have 
something in Q2 2019.



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We evaluated about 8 routers a couple years ago wanting a solid managed wifi 
offering. Calix GigaCenter 844E and SmartRG  SR400AC were standouts from the 
rest of the lot which included cambium, ready net, ignitenet and a few consumer 
routers for comparison. Between the two the 844E had slightly higher 5ghz 
speeds but the 2.4 range was better on SmartRG.

Ultimately we decided smartrg was a better fit for us from how they priced the 
management platform and also the Calix required a DHCP option to set a 
provisioning URL which our powercode BMU was unable to provide. So that broke 
the zero touch config. SmartRG routers phone home to a redirect server and they 
maintain a list if what MACs were sold to who so your units end up in your 
device manager system without any input from your network. Works great.

Overall we are happy with them. The Smartrg "home analytics" is TR161 based 
where it logs wifi signal and usage info from each device in the home. The 
Calix solution was more of a traffic analysis system to sort usage by 
application. I am not sure if it ties that to a device or not. Essentially when 
the customer calls up asking why was Netflix buffering last night, SmartRG 
gives you the info to say, dads laptop with a poor wifi signal was doing some 
kind of large transfer and hogging all the Wifi airtime, while calix gives you 
the answer, some device was doing a windows update and hogging all the 
bandwidth. At least that was my take on it 2 years ago.

I've also found the SmartRG people more accessible to work with. Calix had a 
serious superiority complex attitude problem. That extended to their pricing. 
Actually the 844E was very competitive but anything with GPON in it they priced 
as if it were solid gold. It's like they do not realize GPON is 15? Years old 
technology and should be a commodity priced thing like gigabit ethernet 
switches. Calix GPON doesnt work any faster than my cheap chinese GPON stuff 
although there are some bells and whistles you don't get with ZTE. However my 
customers dont pay me extra for the GPON shelf having bells and whistles.

So, that's how we ended up with ZTE GPON and SmartRG router behind it. Although 
SmartRG is supposedly releasing a SR900? Which has an SFP WAN port with several 
options for wan interface ( GPON, AE BiDi, VDSL, gigE)

Hope that's helpful info
Chris


On Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 9:25 PM Ken Hohhof 
mailto:af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
I should add that I talked to Mike Carpinelli at WISPAmerica in March 2016 and 
he has been returning my emails and had actually set up a time for a 
conference.  But as I plowed through all the documentation on the Calix site, I 
couldn’t find any of the basic information most vendors give you, basically a 
getting started guide.  What are you  going to need, a step-by-step guide to 
hooking it all up, and screenshots of the GUI that your people will see, and 
that your customers will see.

Furthermore, from the discussion here, it seems even WISPs that are using Calix 
products aren’t clear on Calix Cloud vs Consumer Connect, are they the same 
thing, are they different.  It seems like one is too expensive, and the other 
has the secret sauce and without it you’re missing half the features.  Or maybe 
they are different names for the same thing.  Very confusing.

Originally I thought I just needed to order a handful of devices for lab  and 
beta testing, and that we’d learn through the hands-on experience.  But I 
backed off when I found the documentation wasn’t telling me any of the things I 
needed to know.  Clearly just getting some d

Re: [AFMUG] VoIP Systems

2018-10-20 Thread Charles Boening 
We've had a couple customer put in Sangoma branded boxes.

https://www.sangoma.com/products/pbxact/


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From: AF  On Behalf Of Adam Moffett
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 10:57 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] VoIP Systems

I haven't kept up on this for the past 3 years at least.

Is there a small business VoIP appliance that people like?

What about Asterisk+FreePBX distributions like PBX-in-a-Flash or 
Asterisk@Home?  They kept having severe security issues with FreePBX, so 
I'd be a little shy about going down that road, but if it's improved in 
the past few years I'd try it again.  My other problem with FreePBX is 
that it made some hard things very easy and some easy things very hard 
(compared to editing asterisk config files).   I'm not sure it actually 
saved me much time over using vanilla Asterisk.

-Adam


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