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Wanna help our network guys to setup our VoIP. I think they are kinda approaching it the wrong way.
100meg backbone is running like its less than 10 megabit. Since we started BIX-ing it runs like molasses.
Just for fun I tried casting a 256k media streaming service using Media Services on 2000 and alarms were going off on our network monitoring systems when people were trying to hit it and play the video. That was fun. I kinda forgot to notify the Network Mgr. hehehe...

Yeah, sounds like you guys need some netowrking experts.

What category rating are the BIX products you're using? They go up to Cat6, which shouldn't cause any problems.

Also, if your VoIP network is going to be used heavily, I'd suggest going gigabit.

Talk about a thread hijacking.

I agree with you 100%. Not sure of the Cat level. I have a feeling it is how the switches and hubs are set and how the cluster servers are configured. I think there are also many collisions. I am not a network expert but there are defitely issues. My outlook mail is also timing out on the mail servers most of the day.
Those Gigabit switches are not cheap...plus moving all the current PC's to a gigabit network card. Helpdesk would not be happy.

collisions shouldn't be occurring if everything is running full duplex -- is it? It's best to set each device to full duplex rather than leaving them on auto-detect.

Sorry for the thread-jacking. I just can't sit idly by while someone's network is suffering.

OK...I made a place for you.

Land of the Dying Networks

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

x94blair3 = x94blair3@wmich.edu = email address assigned my freshman year of college at Western Michigan University = great times!

94 was the year I started and apparently I was the 3rd Blair starting that year although I never met the first two.

Everytime I need a reality check on how much the world has changed in 10 years, I remember that when that account was assigned, I used email sparingly...on a terminal that had a keyboard and a black and white monitor.

I'm sure everyone feels this way about their life, but I'm amazed to have been alive during such technological growth.

-Nick

As an interesting counterpoint, I started in '95 (at UC Berkeley), and we were the first on a new email system where we didn't have to use Pine and terminals. We could use POP/SMTP clients. Oooh... By the end of my time there (5 years), they'd (mostly) phased out the old system. Pretty incredible, how fast things have moved.

Not to jack the thread, but I agree. Within the 4 years I was at Western, we went from pine to pop/smtp to my first bought home computer to dialup through school and the quickly growing WWW.

Berkeley in '95? Not to get way off topic, but Adam Duritz haunts that place right? Ever see Counting Crows when they were still local?

Or I could be the only one around here who loves counting crows...

Nope. I actually never knew that. Of course, I wasn't too aware of the professional music scene when I was in college; just listened to my CDs, mainly.