Re: [AFMUG] optical TX power levels

2024-01-24 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
nd came up with “chirped fiber Bragg grating”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Bragg_grating OK, I’m out of my depth now. From: AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> On Behalf Of Daniel Pautz via AF Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 4:40 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group mailto:af@a

Re: [AFMUG] optical TX power levels

2024-01-24 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
ven if the RX level is good? > rx was within 0.3dBm on all 4 lanes on both sides On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 1:22 PM Daniel Pautz via AF mailto:af@af.afmug.com>> wrote: Yeah makes me think the two paths have different loss. We have had that on mirrored paths, or even single paths with

Re: [AFMUG] optical TX power levels

2024-01-24 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Yeah makes me think the two paths have different loss. We have had that on mirrored paths, or even single paths with crappy splices on one of the strands. From: AF On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 11:12 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Cc: ch...@go-mt

Re: [AFMUG] Used Juniper

2024-01-22 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
O isn’t that the truth. I honestly hate Junipers, but its been 25 years of cisco, missed in some extreme networks which was close to cisco command line. And Arista which is growing fast is pretty much cisco command line. From: AF On Behalf Of Peter Kranz via AF Sent: Monday, January 2

Re: [AFMUG] Used Juniper

2024-01-11 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Is it really considered a router or just high end switch? Eg does it take full multi tables, etc? what model? I have always considered playing with some Arista’s. From: AF On Behalf Of Zach Underwood Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 8:00 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject:

Re: [AFMUG] ACP - Affordable Connectivity Program

2023-08-30 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Darn, your first message with the typo had me excited ☺ paying a ton of USF for 100G interstate links, would love to get around that some day as we turn up more its so much wasted cash. Would have been cool if these guys won https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca5/22-6000

Re: [AFMUG] battery nerd question

2023-08-17 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Those look pretty interesting. We just dropped 10 grand on new bats for one of our 350KW UPS’s which use two strings of 100AH bats, I was looking around but just couldn’t get to the happy spot with going Lithium, many of them said max 3 or 4 in series which kind of kill it as these need 400

Re: [AFMUG] OT Jardiance can kill you

2023-08-14 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Yeah the v3 is kick ass, so much better than the older ones. I do love the warning of high doses of Vit C will kill the sensor ☺ I don’t even have T2D but use it to get a feel for what foods do what to spikes and such, helps make better choices.Though the tape on these doesn’t seem to be

Re: [AFMUG] Solar

2023-08-01 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Now if only the installers weren’t so greedy. Chuck know of any good commercial / industrial installers? Considering a big 500kw + install up here in Ogden. From: AF On Behalf Of Trey Scarborough Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2023 10:16 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Solar Wow I'

Re: [AFMUG] This thing on?

2023-06-22 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Well the CEO hotshot was on board. I predct this company goes poof very quickly. From: AF on behalf of dmmoff...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2023 11:28:33 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] This thing on? The claim from the

Re: [AFMUG] Windows 11 on ESXI

2023-05-03 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Windows 11 on ESXI Thanks, I'll check that out. Would a future Windows update brick the machine from booting? On 5/2/2023 5:28 PM, Daniel Pautz via AF wrote: > Make an windows 11 iso with that disabled (so much easier) use Rufus as

Re: [AFMUG] Windows 11 on ESXI

2023-05-02 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Make an windows 11 iso with that disabled (so much easier) use Rufus as it has quick easy way to disable all of that crap -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2023 4:10 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Windows 11 on ESXI Does anyone have any po

Re: [AFMUG] Cisco Licensing

2023-03-15 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
There has been a lot of Cisco hate to go around, honestly over the years that is all I have seen with WISP's, "GOO Microtik, fuck cisco!!!". To answer your question the switch will work fine after that. Its likely the demo of the advanced services which would be more than simple vlans.

Re: [AFMUG] Business password managers

2023-02-09 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Any worries about their endless hackings? Seems like they are not giving full disclosure anymore and a few of the last hacks were pretty bad sounding. We have been using lastpass forever now, but its getting a big sad that a company that should be securing your PW’s keeps getting nasty hacks

Re: [AFMUG] Symmetra UPS Questions

2023-01-03 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
wered off, but it is in bypass. On January 3, 2023 1:31:09 PM CST, Daniel Pautz via AF mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > wrote: Ahh is the whole unit powered off?Battery wise, you need atleast two good packs to get it going, 4x would be best (one level) From: AF mailto:af-boun...@a

Re: [AFMUG] Symmetra UPS Questions

2023-01-03 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
s again and its like the power modules try to start, but the fans cycle on and off. On January 3, 2023 1:16:31 PM CST, Daniel Pautz via AF mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > wrote: (dumb question but sometimes they are the easy fix) are you doing the little silver screw to turn them on? Also re

Re: [AFMUG] Symmetra UPS Questions

2023-01-03 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
(dumb question but sometimes they are the easy fix) are you doing the little silver screw to turn them on? Also reseat them firmly then turn them on. We had dozens of the 80kw's running here and have been migration the to monster 500KW setups lately. -Original Message- From: AF O

Re: [AFMUG] MUX Monitor port

2022-12-05 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
If you find something that is fairly cheap let me know as we have a few 50-80KM runs that could use one on each side. You are looking at something like this - https://www.fs.com/products/71586.html From: AF On Behalf Of dmmoff...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, December 05, 2022 8:57 AM To: 'Ani

[AFMUG] USF removal on P2P links?

2022-11-29 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
I know some of you guys are also using p2p links for peering and such, I recall seeing someone's advertisement saying "order a p2p with us and stop paying the USF". Digging into it more it looks like if you can confirm its internet traffic USF wouldn't apply to the links. Hopefully someone

Re: [AFMUG] OT Win 11

2022-11-03 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
:13 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Win 11 and some might argue Windows 7 was the best. bp On 11/3/2022 5:03 PM, Daniel Pautz via AF wrote: Nahhh ’97 rocked From: AF <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2022 5

Re: [AFMUG] OT Win 11

2022-11-03 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Nahhh ’97 rocked From: AF On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2022 5:20 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Win 11 All the odd Windows suck. On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 6:00 PM Bill Prince mailto:part15...@gmail.com> > wrote: and?? bp O

Re: [AFMUG] OT pronouns

2022-10-06 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Too late, it's a thing. Getting it more and more from the oddest places. -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2022 11:15 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Cc: Chuck McCown Subject: [AFMUG] OT pronouns Got my first email whe

Re: [AFMUG] Cordless phones

2022-09-02 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Cisco used to make actual WIFI phones way back when, seems like a great idea for a well covered building. But I haven't seen much lately. Grandstream stuff seems to be DECT 6 From: AF On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Friday, September 02, 2022 11:48 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: Chuck McC

Re: [AFMUG] OT Voyager

2022-08-31 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
I thought the star trek one was Pioneer 1? From: AF On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 3:47 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: Chuck McCown Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Voyager Nope, did you not watch Star Trek? From: Bill Prince Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 3:

Re: [AFMUG] OT Voyager

2022-08-31 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Voyager baby nuke=thermal generator, pu based..? On 8/31/22 10:23 AM, Daniel Pautz via AF wrote: Though these two guys didn’t have solar panels, good old baby nuke on board. From: AF <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck

Re: [AFMUG] OT Voyager

2022-08-31 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Though these two guys didn’t have solar panels, good old baby nuke on board. From: AF On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 11:13 AM To: dmmoff...@gmail.com; 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Cc: Chuck McCown Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Voyager I was taught, m

Re: [AFMUG] Larger Standby Generators

2022-08-30 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
At 30k you are getting into the big boy stuff. I want to say our most recent 500KW cummins purchase (only a few years old) was in the 50k range. Smaller units are a good bit cheaper. These are higher end units that are tanks. Easy to set up remote start with a decent ATS (also cheap)

Re: [AFMUG] crazy bandwidth request

2022-08-12 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Ha, I have to admit your replies give me chuckles From: AF On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Friday, August 12, 2022 11:12 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] crazy bandwidth request are these shower cams? those need good resolution On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at

Re: [AFMUG] OT Keto

2022-07-24 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
totally off Metformin and jardiance. Jardiance does also help with BP too. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 24, 2022, at 10:16 AM, Daniel Pautz via AF mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > wrote:  Such a pain in the butt to get started but once moving it sure cuts the damn sugar cravings. I find the o

Re: [AFMUG] OT Keto

2022-07-24 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Such a pain in the butt to get started but once moving it sure cuts the damn sugar cravings. I find the outside family members keep killing it for me, get a few weeks then bday, or some family member comes over and has some crazy awesome looking carb filled dinner that I can’t resist.

Re: [AFMUG] FS: Att/Comcast wholesale transport - 10g 0mrc promo

2022-07-08 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Ha, won’t be long before those guys are lower than the cost of the xconnect in the bigger datacenters. Its just a pitty they don’t go that low on aggregated commits (cogent comes close but HE hates burstable ports). From: AF On Behalf Of TJ Trout Sent: Friday, July 08, 2022 2:06 PM

Re: [AFMUG] BBS

2022-06-16 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
ct: Re: [AFMUG] DSL With Powercode? Trade wars yes.. there was a stock market game and a game called "empire" I believe On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 1:05 PM Daniel Pautz via AF mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > wrote: Just normal intel machines running Novel netware lite then qemm or some

Re: [AFMUG] Door Access Control System (self-install, self-hosted)

2022-06-16 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
We use credoid here, pretty cheap. Picked up HID stuff on ebay super cheap to make a system here (about a dozen doors, some with both nfc and pin and some just nfc / hid). From: AF On Behalf Of Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2022 12:01 PM To: AnimalFarm

Re: [AFMUG] DSL With Powercode?

2022-06-10 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
irst after Midnight (when you could make the moves for the day) who knew what they were doing. From: AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf Of Daniel Pautz via AF Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 4:40 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' mailto:af@af.afmug.com>

Re: [AFMUG] DSL With Powercode?

2022-06-09 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
M I miss my Commodore 64, or later the multi like BBS running out of my mom’s house, good old US Robotics modems for the win! From: AF On Behalf Of Steven Kenney via AF Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2022 3:06 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Cc: Steven Kenney Subject: Re: [AFMUG]

Re: [AFMUG] Fw: Would you allow Tor exit node hosting in your AS?

2022-05-17 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
If you do, get ready for the DOJ / homeland security, FBI and everyone else subpoena’s at some point. Not work the hassle in my mind as there is so much abuse. From: AF On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 12:25 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: Chuck McCown Subject: [

Re: [AFMUG] Is this thing on

2022-05-10 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Wow finally not going directly to spam (on email hosted on google) -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 8:58 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: Chuck McCown Subject: [AFMUG] Is this thing on ? Sent from my iPhone -- AF mailing list AF@

Re: [AFMUG] 60GHz Equipment

2022-03-22 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Yeah soo many houses of here in northern utah with their square radios still on them. They never went back and pulled them. Just poof Saw some local small WSIPs come in and yank / use their backhaul gear which I think was pretty pricey From: AF On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza Sent:

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Data Center Construction

2022-02-01 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
So true, when you actually use bandwidth (which is now actually stupid cheap) the prices skyrocket. We have had a number of people move back when it ended up costing many times more than their colo or rented server setup. Then there will always be the companies that don't trust it and want to

Re: [AFMUG] HE vs Cogent

2022-01-24 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
The one thing I will say between the two of them (we have multi 100G ports with both HE, Cogent and a dozen other providers). The only way to get good prices with HE is on fixed ports, Cogent and most other providers allow bursting / aggregated setups which saves a ton of money if you need por

Re: [AFMUG] OT Air Tags

2021-11-01 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
I have a feeling this is just the start. I haven’t heard much more about amazon street? Whatever their share everyones connection was. Then good old comcast and the free wifi usage (but I get those are home broadband setups). Now to see when android setups have something like the Air Tags.

Re: [AFMUG] Supply Chain Issues

2021-09-27 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Welcome to the new norm, right? Its hard to imagine it back to 2019. Can’t get people to show for interviews / work at more than double the pay of 2019, something like 40 container ships sitting in SoCal oceans, saw NYC / east coast is getting backed up, etc. Holiday stuff is goin

Re: [AFMUG] OT border control

2021-09-22 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Yeah, Utah is nuts labor market wise. We can’t even fill a basic “take the trash out and mop floors” $15-17 position. But with the prices you just listed, it makes me wonder if we will even fill the basic computer tech roles anymore. Something will have to give soon enough.

Re: [AFMUG] Public broadband failures

2021-07-12 Thread Daniel Pautz via AF
Wasn't the big Provo, Ut network passed on to google for $1? I am sure there is a ton to that story but that is the first one to come to mind. -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Monday, July 12, 2021 5:15 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Public broadband f