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  1. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    +1 RAID is never considered a substitute for doing backups. Keep in mind with RAID, you have to account for the rebuild time required when a drive does fail. The larger the drives, the longer it will take for the rebuilds to happen. So during the rebuild of the RAID volume, your data is at...
  2. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    There you go with all things network has to revolve around Cisco. As I said there are other alternatives which more than satisfies most people's requirements (businesses included) without having to pay the Cisco price tag. In your eyes, it's poor construction. In the eyes of the builder, they...
  3. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    And I (and others) have said to run into a PoE enabled patch panel is rare and the exception. Especially if you're talking about a home installation where I doubt anyone has a Telco/wiring closet/data center arrangement in their home which provides 48V DC power nor have I seen any structured...
  4. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    While the Netgear switches are not at the same stature as Cisco, it will work in many access layer applications. Add to the fact, the ProSafe line from Netgear has a "lifetime" (ie 20 years from EOS) warranty, it is hard to ignore the value these switches bring to the table. There are options...
  5. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    One can get a Netgear ProSafe GS724TP PoE switch for around $500. I hardly think that's breaking the bank or requires a company with deep pockets. Contrast that with a Panduit DPOE24U1XG which runs about $1400 and requires a separate 48V DC power feed not included in this price (or the labor...
  6. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    I guess it depends on the locality.
  7. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    PoE patch panels are the exception and not the norm. So the statement that patch panels don't have a powered component can be taken to be generally true. In the various enterprise/campus networks I've been involved with or seen, I've never come across a single PoE patch panel. In addition...
  8. Home Theater Audio
    I would say a proper power protection plan would be to implement a whole house surge suppressor first and then use secondary point of service surge protectors/UPS'.
  9. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    The phone company will not touch any of the wiring from the house to the NID. While the DMARC is at the NID located just outside of the house, in the housing you'll see two sides. One is marked for customer access. This is where the wiring from your house comes in and plugs into the feeds...
  10. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    My advice is to wait till the end of this year. All devices which are ac "standard", are not standard. It's still pre-ratification. Many of the current ac devices won't be able to upgrade via firmware to the more exciting features of ac. Phase 2 which is slated to roll out some time at the...
  11. Home Theater Audio
    Well, paying top dollar for expensive equipment doesn't guarantee that you'll get every dollar spent in acoustical performance. I've had many debates with others about this and have held my tongue on numerous occasions when someone posts pictures of some speakers they've spent $20,000 a pair...
  12. Home Theater Audio
    Don, The point of my post wasn't to hold the OP to task about his decision to go with a sound bar. It's with some of the responders to this thread criticizing him for his choice. I wanted to know of those that were harsh in their replies have themselves done what is required to really get...
  13. Home Theater Audio
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  14. Home Theater Audio
    I wonder how many of those that profess to care about sound quality actually go the full distance in having proper speaker placement and acoustically treating their rooms.
  15. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    I have a Canon Pixma IP100. Absolutely awesome small portable printer. It also has an option to have a battery pack which really makes it portable. Print quality is decent and so is the print speed...
  16. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I never said this was about hacking my WiFi network. It was in reference to the other side topic about plugging in a PC directly to the ISP modem and it being a non-issue with doing so.
  17. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Not picking on you directly. But addressing the wireless is less secure than wired comments. In a home network, yes, this is generally the case. But in a corporate environment which some of this discussion is hinting towards, this is not necessarily true. There are ways to implement a very...
  18. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I guess you've never looked at your router logs or have been fortunate enough not to be scanned by the numerous bots out there. A scan through my firewall logs showed that on 3 occasions someone from a Chinese IP address tried to scan for any vulnerable ports on my IP.
  19. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Exactly. Airsnort is one such tool that will pick out your "hidden" SSIDs and MAC addresses from the air.
  20. Tech Talk - Gadgets, Gizmos and Technology
    I knew about the iPhone settlement. Didn't know about the IOS/iOS settlement. Regardless, both of those originated from Cisco.
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