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Steve is only telling a half truth on the self imposed timelines argument. When it comes to product reviews, you better have your review ready to go live when the embargo lifts. Timelines are always insane in broadcasting, ask anyone who works in local news. I just hope that LTT utilizes its lab as its competitive advantage and kills it in the QA department. That's the biggest thing they were lacking, proper QA. I've owned and operated a business, and quality assurance is the hardest piece to figure out. There's so much constructive feedback in this thread though, and I hope LTT staff are reading.

Despite what other YouTuber's and the pitchfork mob might think, I still love LTT. For years it's been cool watching them grow from a few guys out of a garage into a successful company that employs 100+ people. My experience with lttstore (I've done several orders for a screwdriver, northern lights mousepad, some clothing), floatplane and other products has been amazing. Just last month I ordered a lime day Shortcircuit hoodie and I made a mistake in sizing the order - they paid for return shipping and had me a new hoodie within a week. I also love the content with console dev kits, random home server projects, vlogs about how the office runs, etc. The quality of their products is also extremely good. If I was going to base my purchasing or viewing decisions around a few negative experiences, or even bad culture I'd stop shopping at Walmart, Target, Starbucks, Costco, Amazon, Apple, etc. All of those companies have had FAR worse track records when it comes to employee treatment and scandals. That being said, I'm glad to see that Teren is taking the allegations very seriously. As a side, there are 11 female staff currently listed on the LMG staff page and I'd love to hear about their experience with company culture. Anyhow, thanks Linus and the LMG staff. Even if there have been some inaccuracies in some of your content (that's why I always look at MANY reviews before buying stuff and I'm surprised that Steve didn't end with that conclusion), your video's have continually inspired me to remain curious about what's possible with tech. You've done an entertaining job at covering these topics and I'm still a viewer.

Make a video where no one needs to buy anything. Everyone is cash strapped, few tech youtubers are making videos like this. 7.5 million payments of CERB have been made and I think many people are going to lose interest if all channels are just "Check out this new tech you have no hopes of ever affording". Here are some idea's: Creative ways to use tech in isolation. I guess this is the broad idea of all these points. How you can grow your skillset using online training to be better prepared when the downtime ends (could be sponsorship opportunities with only training companies too). Think of tech that people probably have in their houses already and how they might be able to be repurposed; raspberry pi music players, setting up a plex server to stream to all PC's in your house, how to turn an old xbox into a media playback device, do baking Xbox's in an oven actually fix red ring of deaths (though this was more prevelant with the 360 IIRC), how to build a retropie, etc. VLOG of how LTT continues to work through this pandemic Re-visit how to do game streaming with Steam Link and modern TV based platforms such as nVidia Shield, Android, or Apple TV. Just a thought.

Keep in mind IP addresses can change regions, and can be transferred in and out of regions. Services like MaxMind keep that information current, and are free to use for personal use.

What does the channel utilization look like at your place? Does this problem persist on 2.4ghz AND 5ghz? Or only one of the two? To me it sounds like interference causing reduced performance. I'd look for an open channel, or pick the channel with the lowest noise floor, and narrow your channel width to 10mhz, if it's stable, then go to 20mhz, and so on. Keep in mind, that reducing channel width reduces throughput, so keep any downloads on wifi on hold until you figure out your channels, or do this test with 5ghz with one device and throw all your other devices on 2.4ghz, and then repeat the test with one device on 2.4ghz and all the other on 5ghz until you find stable channels (in some places there's simply too much interference to get great stability). No degrees here, but I have experience as a network ops manager for a WISP.

That's not correct. For 172.19.24.5/20 your first IP would be 172.19.16.1 (technically .0, but that's bad practice as it's usually used as an identifier) and the broadcast would be 172.19.31.255, leaving 172.19.31.254 as your last usable IP. Here's an easy to use subnet calculator. To answer OP's question, your network would be 172.19.16.0/20.

I would be concerned about bringing in humidity, but if you monitor it regularly it shouldn't be an issue. I'd probably put in some sort of environmental monitoring like Ubiquiti mFI gear, just to keep an eye on things. Also, if you ever find the temps getting out of control, you can reverse the direction of the fan and the damper and pick up a 5-10k BTU portable AC from Canadian Tire for a few hundred dollars and use that duct work as your exhaust. What I've often wanted to do, with my server rack in my house is watercool all of my rack gear and mount the radiators in a different room or outside and install clean quick disconnects on the devices in the rack. It would be a bit of a product, but could give you an entirely water cooled rack, with the ability to remove stuff to perform maintenance.

Looks like a decent little mobile gaming box.

Looks like you got a good starter Cisco lab!

Exactly my thoughts, heat will still build up inside a ziploc bag. I guess for practicality, it's impossible to truly water cool this sort of device and keep it usable.

Interesting video, but some suggestions on how to further improve your server room... or random tips... A rack console IP KVM, clean, sleek, and a bit more convenient than a wall mounted solution because it puts you in front of the rack. Network connect all the things. We're using network connected battery backups from Eaton at work, from the 5PX line with 4 additional EBM (Extended battery module), for a total runtime of about 100 minutes with about 2.7kW of load. It also emails whenever surges, or drops in voltage happen - easily the best UPS I've ever used, though the web interface is lacking a bit. Studs... 16" apart in most construction, sometimes 24". The best way to find these on a drywalled wall? A hard drive magnet, seriously. Take a hard drive magnet and gently scan the wall with it, once it grabs a screw head, you know there's likely a stud behind there. You now know where every stud is in the building. It looks like, in LMG's case, the contractors may have viewed the room as a utility room and installed plywood in it as a result - pretty common practice. All in all, interesting video, entertaining as always. As a network admin, I often cringe when you tackle network stuff, but the progression for most business moves from "the server is a random computer in the corner, oh and whatever switch is cheap", to "we need a better firewall for security, oh and I guess we should start racking our white box servers", to "we should probably look at redundancy and building a DR site, oh and we're tired of calling Asus to RMA a motherboard, WD to RMA a hard drive, etc, so let's buy a box from one vendor with warranty for all the parts", to "We demand a 99.997% SLA". The hardware seems to progress like that.

Wow, so much bad information here, it's ridiculous. To make this work you need line of sight between both locations, after that you need a clear fresnal zone between your two sites. Ubiquiti has an AirLink Calculator, which you can use to test if a variety of different gear will work - you will likely need height to make this work. You can pickup an AirGrid M5 for about $70 on Amazon each, and build your link for about $140, but you also need to cable it up, and might need to buy some mounting hardware and poles to get some height - probably close to around $500 after all is said and done (that's a fairly safe budget number if you can keep your towers under 15' per side). You can hit a sustained throughput of around 30mbps, which is fine for internet sharing, at an increased latency of under 5ms. After your link is up and running, you simply add an AP at the other end. You don't need any sort of licensing as long as you're using 900mhz, 2.4ghz, or 5ghz Ubiquiti gear, as it's designed to comply with the FCC and adhere to regulatory compliance. It's 100% legal to buy this stuff off the shelf and start using it. You may want to check with local building codes if your mount extends off your roof by more than 10'.

Unless you're bonding them together, you won't actually get 2gbps (I think you'd need to go the Linux or BSD route, as Windows doesn't support this properly). You'll get 2 x 1gbps links that can be accessed simultaneously, allowing you to max out both interfaces at the same time. In Windows Server 2012, they call this NIC teaming, which can be switch independent, but you may have to configure MultiPath Input/Output (MPIO) to see the full benefit. A switch dependent solution would be Link Aggregation.

It really depends on the scale of the network. A datacenter with hundreds of racks of servers is probably running Cisco Nexus gear or similar. A smaller outfit with a couple racks could achieve better performance by virtualizing the firewall or router and allocating compute and high bandwidth network infrastructure to that, with minimal increased security risk.

Uhhh... VM Firewall appliances from Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, SonicWall, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Fortinet.... I could go on, those are links to all of their virtual offerings. Clearly the industry has bought into selling Virtual Appliances.