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guidedbyechoes wrote:

Ostinato Rubato wrote:Pretty much a foreign language for me

Hey went from a full Bradshaw rack rig to a combo with 3 pedals is basically what that means.

Way to put things in context

IndyWS6 wrote:

ajaxlepinski wrote:At work, ownership just switched from hardwired workstations to WiFi... Now, I spend at least an hour a day waiting for WiFi to reconnect.
My boss needs to read this thread!


At home, our laptop, PC and my Mac are all hardwired into the router - no stinking Wi-Fi
The cables are all neatly hidden and no dropouts.

I don't get that decision. They sent a questionnaire to us IT folks before building our new building, asking if Wi-Fi only would be an option. Hell, no... The source files for the engineering apps I support are anywhere from 4GB to 12GB each. I have to push 60GB to a machine for a typical app rollout. Wi-Fi is good, but it's 10x slower than our desktop Gig links (and it's a shared medium). Not to mention that the download from the PLM system to a client to open a typical assembly is 2GB - and that happens all day, every day. I pushed for 10G links to the design and analysis machines, but the per port switch costs are just stoopidly expensive...

At my last job they built one building with mostly wifi. But then they gave people the option to use macs. We didn't have a softphone solution for macs. They also only supplied one ethernet jack fro every two people in that building. It was also fun with the newer macs because they don't have built-in Ethernet ports. Our security was set up so if you didn't have the adapter they were using whitelisted you would need an admin password to add it. Of course each adapter had to be manually whitelisted and almost every VP and up had a Mac. The biggest dead zones were in meeting rooms, of course. So I had to put out a lot of fires when I worked support for that specific location with very "important people". You also need to be on a whitelisted port or connect to vpn to change your password safely. If someone connected to the guest network on accident and tried to change the password it had a high chance of them not being able to access their device without our help.

guidedbyechoes wrote:

IndyWS6 wrote:

ajaxlepinski wrote:At work, ownership just switched from hardwired workstations to WiFi... Now, I spend at least an hour a day waiting for WiFi to reconnect.
My boss needs to read this thread!


At home, our laptop, PC and my Mac are all hardwired into the router - no stinking Wi-Fi
The cables are all neatly hidden and no dropouts.

I don't get that decision. They sent a questionnaire to us IT folks before building our new building, asking if Wi-Fi only would be an option. Hell, no... The source files for the engineering apps I support are anywhere from 4GB to 12GB each. I have to push 60GB to a machine for a typical app rollout. Wi-Fi is good, but it's 10x slower than our desktop Gig links (and it's a shared medium). Not to mention that the download from the PLM system to a client to open a typical assembly is 2GB - and that happens all day, every day. I pushed for 10G links to the design and analysis machines, but the per port switch costs are just stoopidly expensive...

At my last job they built one building with mostly wifi. But then they gave people the option to use macs. We didn't have a softphone solution for macs. They also only supplied one ethernet jack fro every two people in that building. It was also fun with the newer macs because they don't have built-in Ethernet ports. Our security was set up so if you didn't have the adapter they were using whitelisted you would need an admin password to add it. Of course each adapter had to be manually whitelisted and almost every VP and up had a Mac. The biggest dead zones were in meeting rooms, of course. So I had to put out a lot of fires when I worked support for that specific location with very "important people". You also need to be on a whitelisted port or connect to vpn to change your password safely. If someone connected to the guest network on accident and tried to change the password it had a high chance of them not being able to access their device without our help.

Sounds like a mess. Ease of use and security don't have to be mutually-exclusive, but it's common. The people that make the security decisions don't work within them often enough to see things from a user perspective...

*looks at food storages*

Maybe an SxS or an over under?