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Comment Re:No more licensing fees :) (Score 5, Interesting) 343

This is why I don't work for a PHB. In fact, he's balding a bit. I have the best boss ever. He just gave me the green light to be early adopters and run this in production (once it passes a few sanity checks). We've been running the alphas and betas with much success. Samba team ftw!! Thanks guys! I've been waiting for this for so long.

Comment Re:Cost? (Score 1) 121

Agreed. Thought it was interesting nonetheless. Don't even know how this new system's spectral characteristics would play out in the U.S., as I have absolutely no idea how similar/dissimilar the band licensing is to AU.

Looks like the Ubiquitis could be installed by a highly trained monkey with the software they've included.

Comment Cost? (Score 4, Informative) 121

Ubiquiti just announced their AirFiber product (http://www.ubnt.com/airfiber) which can get 1.4 Gbps symmetric at 13km. It'll be interesting to see the price point of this 10 Gbps system, as Ubiquiti's runs only $3k per endpoint. I was considering getting a pair of the Ubiquitis to connect a branch office to HQ.

10 Gbps would be nice, but I'm guessing the cost of this system would be at least a magnitude greater than the AirFibers.

Comment Re:SAIC Secretive? (Score 1) 74

Agreed. I'm a Sysadmin of the "secretive" SAIC. It's funny to hear us described like that.

I do especially like the "dirtbags" tag for NS, though. I can't stand them, even though we do get bottom-barrel pricing through them here at SAIC (via secretive back-room dealings).

I use Gandi.net for my personal domains. They seem to be the antithesis of poor registrars such as GoDaddy and NS.

Comment Re:Yes, there is a pro-sumer router (Score 3, Informative) 936

I second this. I have a D-Link Gamer Lounge (DGL-4300). This is the most stable router I've ever owned. Thumbs up on the QoS, stability and speed (GbE). If I were able to run 'uptime' on it, I believe it would say close to two years (I live in Florida, but it's on a UPS). Oh, wait:

Connection Up Time : 617 day(s), 12:04:53
Sick.

My last router was a WRT54GL that decided to brick itself after about three months of DD-WRT. I think I should agree with some of the above posts that offloading network services can help these routers, but I'm not sure. I run my own DNS and DHCP, so this router has never had to bear that load.

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