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I do the KeePass thing too. But, as mentioned, keeping all my logins stored is a challenge.

Well, I guess if you want to go by the formal definition of QoS... but I don't really consider it QoS unless you're dealing with more than one class of traffic. If you use OSPF only to form an adjacency between two IPs of a /30 either side of a point-to-point, is it really routing? Not the best...

Shaping is, as mentioned, a component of QoS, but it is ALSO something that can stand alone. Shaping is a way of buffering traffic temporarily and discarding packets when appropriate to prevent congestion or impose a limit upon the amount of bandwidth a connection uses. This is commonly used BY...

I don't know why everyone was suggesting running away from this company screaming. I love finding an IT flustercluck I can fix (I work for an ISP too) because after all the conference calls are done and the bosses are convinced and the necessary changes finally get made, I'm the hero. I can drop...

I used LANDesk for an over-11,000-CPU network and loved it. The asset-management portion most of all, though for software deployment it also worked well. Then again, I haven't really worked with many alternatives.

I've never even heard of that brand, so I'd probably avoid it. Processing power is what's important. You need to get a router which is actually rated for 50 Mbps on the WAN link. I've never seen a consumer wireless router that doesn't have at least a few switch ports in the back for wired...

Ohhh I see. I've used the http get in an IP SLA before. Damn, I could have told you that at the beginning of this thread, except that I didn't really get what you were trying to accomplish. I've never worked with DDNS in IOS, to be honest.

It definitely sounds like they're using a WAN accelerator. It's really nothing special, though I'm sure they want you to think it is. WAN accelerators often employ TCP window size adjustments, ack delay changes, real-time compression, and local-caching options to reduce overhead, maximize...

I would have suggested the tunnel if you don't want to pay for an MPLS (I'm another enterprise ISP WAN tech and it's pretty much our go-to solution for scenarios like these) but reading about OTV as Vito suggested above, it sounds pretty awesome.

I can't say I know the best place to go, but in order to understand the Wireshark captures, you'll need to know how the TCP/IP stack and ethernet works, as well as any protocols involved with the services on your servers and network devices. Digging through my list of bookmarks, here's a few...

Interesting. I've been doing a lot with IP SLA myself recently, but I've never considered it for running a script (though I'm guessing a track actually triggers the script?). Is this something you could share? It would be very useful to me.

Going to +1 Jay on this, Cacti with a weather map is phenomenal to work with.

Anyone who is telling you they can "optimize" TCP/IP to push more bandwidth than a circuit can handle is absolutely full of shit. TCP/IP are protocols that introduce overhead. IP is necessary for routing, TCP is necessary for ensuring data reliability. Both reduce your total data throughput...

Maybe someone here will know the answer to your question but your thread might be better suited for the Webmastering and Programming forum.

70-80 Mbps is 8.75-10 MBps. 8 bits (b) per byte (B).

Understand that approximately 50% of WiFi data is protocol overhead. Your actual data throughput will be, under best case circumstances, somewhat less than half of the connection speed you see on your laptop. (IE, a 300 Mbps connection will yield roughly 130 Mbps of actual data delivered). I'm...

You hiring? :p Seriously though, sounds like an interesting gig. Be sure to have your successor come here and share with us any challenges he may face. We love to help, it keeps us all learning.

Well as I pointed out earlier, my personal preference would be a Cisco I can micromanage with a relatively cheap WAP hanging off of it. In any case, there are circumstances where 5GHz wireless is well worth the expense, and I'm talking within the consumer / SOHO market.

I think we can all agree that it's misleading for consumers, regardless. Hell, it's misleading for us, and most of us have careers in networking and IT.

If you're not using wireless (and if you are, moving from 2.4 GHz to 5 GHz wireless might fix the problem), then it's possible that a power sag when the condenser kicks in on your fridge is causing your NIC to lose its connection. If your router or modem are on the same circuit it'd be even more...

How much do you know about the 2.4 GHz band? There are only 3 channels that can be used simultaneously without overlapping on the band. Channels 1, 6, and 11. So if you see 30 APs, there are roughly 10(!) overlapping networks PER channel. Now WiFi uses CDMCA (Collision Avoidance) so it doesn't...

I like to carry my laptop, my smartphone, my tablet around within my home, and not have to deal with wireless interference making life difficult. Personally, I'd go with a cisco router since I work in dozens of them every day, and throw a cheap wireless N router off a switch port as a WAP.

I don't know of any exact equivalent. What are you trying to accomplish? Perhaps I'd be able to give you something appropriate. Cisco has thought of pretty much everything.

Glad to hear you figured it out!

2.4 GHz-only wireless N? No thanks.

I would disable QoS as a testing measure, but otherwise, I'd leave it alone.

You don't have bittorrent or anything on the computer, right? I know you say you're not downloading anything but sometimes it runs in the background. When both of them are connected, it's only the Xbox that lags? The computer is fine? What if you start your computer up in safe mode, does the...

Tell your son to hop on here, we'll straighten him out! Again though, from what I could see, Hamachi (or maybe just Windows Firewall) did block most ports. However, I'm not a hacker and I did cancel the penetration test so I didn't see what could have been exploited via the VPN tunnel. I told...

Gonna QTFT. The performance specs listed by cisco typically assume all services enabled. Otherwise they could end up selling you something that might not be able to handle the throughput with all the features you're running. Some other manufacturers take advantage of this (I've seen ADTRAN do...

I tried my hand at running my own biz for a while. I'm a better tech than I am a businessman. I gave away too much free work and ended up practically in the poor house with more work than I could handle. That wasn't even the reason I ended up getting a job working for someone else though; you...

Well that's really the point of a VPN; to allow a device to access your LAN via a WAN link. Your son is probably doing it so he can do some sort of gaming that typically requires the other player to have a PC present on the LAN. Unfortunately this works almost too well and does make the...

To each his own, I love my job...

^ I'm working with a small regional bank right now which has, (partially per FDIC), a redundant BGP failover for each branch using HSRP and VPN tunnel failovers via a VPN concentrator triggered using WAN-tolerant IP SLA tracking across an MPLS which gateways through a network based-firewall out...

Good question, TBH. However they're full of people who don't really care about their jobs so it's very easy for someone who is passionate about what they do to climb through the ranks. Though, my job as the municipal tech support lead had to end when I had 5 managers and a regional executive...

I was the team lead of 12 desktop support reps for 44,000 users and approximately 11,000 cpus (not counting servers) across 54 departments of municipal government for one of the largest cities in the world. In a good month we'd clear over 600 support tickets apiece. Thank goodness the bulk of...

Easier to do this than to try to explain to people all the time that bandwidth != throughput, that there's always protocol overhead involved. That's half of what I do every day, explain to IT guys that they can't get 100 Mbps file transfer rates between their offices on the West coast and East...

Well, they're getting new equipment and the goal is for the new guy to know "real world network equipment stuff" so my guess would be expansion or at least modernization. /shrug More knowledge is always a good thing.

Have him download a copy of GNS3 and use it as he does his study. Book knowledge is alright but it will never prepare you for that moment where you actually have to start typing commands that will impact the network.

My WNDR3700 v1 is running DD-WRT and still chugging along. I was having issues with WiFi dropping occasionally, but I upgraded it to a version of DD-WRT released in Jan/Feb and it's been solid ever since.

I honestly don't feel that bad about crap like that. As I mentioned before, I work for an ISP, fortunately only with enterprise-class customers. When our sales team sells the customer an internet circuit, naturally they try to sell them a managed firewall product (or, if they get an MPLS, a...