RE: How our young colleagues are being educated....

2014-12-22 Thread Shaw, Matthew
Thankfully only about 30 minutes north of SNHU is my alma mater, the New Hampshire Technical Institute, a technical school which is fairly well known (locally at least) for its nursing, electrical engineering, and IT programs. The school's invested in a modern lab with a dozen or so equipment po

RE: Cogent packet loss to Verizon in San Jose

2013-11-08 Thread Shaw, Matthew
Issues in NYC today too. We confirmed traffic coming in from VZW as well as Comcast through Cogent to us both seeing drops at that same point. Matthew Shaw - Sr. Network Administrator FairPoint Communications | ms...@fairpoint.com -Original Message- From: Matthew Huff [mailto:mh...@ox.

M40e "AER" and MG9k's

2013-11-07 Thread Shaw, Matthew
Good morning all, This is a bit of a longshot, but by any chance is there anyone watching this list who is currently or was formerly with VZ that's familiar with a configuration involving M40e's aggregating a number of customer facing MG9k's over ATM? We're having a heck of a time with them if

RE: Comcast contact

2013-08-07 Thread Shaw, Matthew
spite not sounding as good, the calls stopped dropping and people's voices were no longer dropping out. Matt -Original Message- From: Rob Seastrom [mailto:r...@seastrom.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 11:56 PM To: Shaw, Matthew Cc: Brandon Galbraith; Andy Ringsmuth; NANOG list S

RE: Comcast contact

2013-08-06 Thread Shaw, Matthew
Make sure the remote phone is using a low bandwidth codec too. In a previous life changing a remote (home) user's phone from G.711 to G.729 made all the difference in the world to their call quality. Matthew Shaw – Sr. Network Administrator FairPoint Communications | ms...@fairpoint.com www.Fa

RE: File transfer speed between Hong Kong and Johannesburg, South Africa

2013-07-11 Thread Shaw, Matthew
He specified SMBv2 so I think you're on track with him being on a Win7 / WinSrv2008 box. There are a number of variables at play here though, one of which is who the provider's in-between the two locations are and the quality / number of peering points you'd have to cross. If the endpoints wer