CAT6A in a new building
We are in the process of narrowing down the low voltage contractors for a new facility. We have decided to use CAT6A for everything. One contractor is proposing Commscope products and one of the...
View ArticleSmall network implementation poll
I have a client with an existing Peer to Peer network, with Quickbooks and MS Access files on one of the users PC's (slow machine) being accessed by 7 other users (including some file sharing), all...
View ArticleDual wan / load balancer options please!
Hello , I am from the Philippines. I'd want to connect 2 DSL MODEMS, the problem is after my research I only came up with Cisco RV042 or RV042G. DOES anyone have other suggestion. Its kinda hard to...
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Please help to find out the Software for monitoring internet activities?
View ArticleOffice Network diagram consultation please :)
Hello everyone ! I would like to ask help/opinion from everyone here. There are 2 floors, separate LAN and both have their own DSL modem with static IP address. Both setup of both offices are the same...
View ArticleCisco 2811 Small Office Setup Help
I have been attempting to setup a Cisco 2811 at a small office to replace a Cisco rv042 that doesn't work correctly. I am trying to set it up to perform NAT behind the modem that our ISP (Charter)...
View ArticleCisco IP Phones not going to the correct VLAN on Procurve switch.....
I have strange issue.... I have HP procurve 2910 switches on which Cisco IP Phones are connected. and have windows dhcp server configured with both data and voice scopes. and i have defined option 150...
View ArticleNetwork typology and capacity planning Resources
Gidday :-) Im after some good best practice network typology and capacity planning resources ideally in the guise of some cool webpages you guys may have stumbled across. Has anybody stumbled across...
View ArticleDyndns domain to local IP
Hello all, I'm working with a device which needs a local IP to virtualice a COM port on a PC (Moxa NPort 5110). I need to have the pc on a LAN and this device on other LAN. These LAN's are not...
View Articlesnmp credentials
I am trying to get Spiceworks to see my AVAYA \ NORTEL switches. The IP's are being discovered, but we're getting the following error:Authentication my be required for http://10.55.161.21 I've got two...
View ArticleFoglight Help
My boss has informed me that I need to learn Foglight NMS from scratch. I have no clue where to even begin. Anybody with some insight to Foglight can you please help point me in the right direction?
View ArticleThrottle Metro Connection
What would be the best way to throttle two ip addresses over a metro e connection? We just received two servers that will do replication to one another. They both stage various server data locally and...
View ArticleNeeding to find a video/audio streaming speed test
I am looking for a audio and video streaming speed test. So I can see if my QOS is working right. Anyone know of a good one?
View ArticleWorkstation Bandwidth Monitoring: Unmanaged Switches
I have 2 Linksys SR224 unmanaged switches. I'd like opinions on a simple free or cheap way to monitor each workstation at this particular office (about 20 users).
View ArticleOne is the loneliest number: Growing IT
This is the 190th article in the Spotlight on IT series. If you'd be interested in writing an article on the subject of backup, security, storage, virtualization, mobile, networking, wireless, DNS, or...
View ArticleRDP unable to connect using IP in a domain
Hi Guys, I run to some issue after I recently created 2 Domain controllers under Window 2k8 R2 SP1. I can remote the server using its host name but I'm unable to remote the member servers using IP...
View ArticleBGP with a disaster recovery site
I currently have /24, 2 isp's, 2 routers 1 firewall (secondary failover), running full blown BGP configuration. No issues at all. What I would like to do is setup a disaster recovery site. I would...
View ArticleI wonder why this cable isn't working
So I spent a better part of today trying to diagnose a network cable run that was not working. I was getting conflicting information with my tester measured from either end of the cable. I had to go...
View ArticleCannot ping on same subnet
Hello all. I am struggling with an odd networking issue. I am having trouble pinging printers that are statically mapped on the same subnet. Here are the details: IP range: 10.10.64.1 – 10.10.67.254...
View ArticleHow can i tell if my network got hacked?
Server 2008r2 20 users sonicwall tz210 Office manager noticed the network and some computers were running slow they wanted to know how would i know if the network was hacked? So how can i...?? What...
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