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Port fowarding, IP Cameras, and a SonicWALL router

Does anyone have any familiarity with this? To describe my needs: We are in the process of having a wISP connection setup at a 100 horse barn. The intentions is to grant specific customers and staff…Continue

Started Oct 25, 2011

Wireless Bridging part 2
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A few months back I had to build a bridge that connected a camera at a front gate to a firewall in a service building 500ft away. It worked fine, but the short distance and Line of sight made it easy…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Danny Nolan Oct 13, 2011.

Point to Point Wireless Bridging

One of the properties I am responsible for has a 500ft driveway with a big gated entrance. The owner would like to add a IP security camera at the front gate to catch license plates and faces of…Continue

Started Jun 3, 2011

Where do you buy your supplies?
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For those of us with smaller and constantly growing networks, where do you buy your keystones, quickport faceplates, cable, tools, etc? I use cat5ecableguy.com for mine, but was wondering if anyone…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Mike Rigsby Jun 8, 2011.

 

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Port fowarding, IP Cameras, and a SonicWALL router

Does anyone have any familiarity with this? To describe my needs: We are in the process of having a wISP connection setup at a 100 horse barn. The intentions is to grant specific customers and staff members the ability to view our on-site IP cameras from their location. All cameras currently get recorded by a linux based QNAP NVR. When the wISP setup is complete, I plan on adding a static public IP for this device. But, I am worried about giving access to a security device online. I am thinking…See More
Oct 25, 2011
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Danny Nolan replied to Danny Nolan's discussion Wireless Bridging part 2
"Its no big deal, this is still a new community and I really hope this place can take off, as it has the potential of being a great resource for sysadmins, especially the little guys like myself."
Oct 13, 2011
Wesley "Nonapeptide" replied to Danny Nolan's discussion Wireless Bridging part 2
"Yikes. Yeah, building your own backhaul infrastructure is expensive. Sounds like you've got a good deal to hook into what is essentially a WISP. And sorry it took two weeks to get an answer here. =)"
Oct 12, 2011
Danny Nolan replied to Danny Nolan's discussion Wireless Bridging part 2
"My company owner used to work in Telecoms, including cell towers. He contacted a few friends who happened to move into point to point bridges and  point to multipoint small scale networking. It looks to be a viable solution for us.   It…"
Oct 12, 2011
Wesley "Nonapeptide" replied to Danny Nolan's discussion Wireless Bridging part 2
"Are you using patch / panel antennas? At that distance, I'd say to look into a parabolic grid antenna. I'm not 100% sure about the power transmission laws though. I think the FCC (assuming you're in America) caps antennas at 1 watt...…"
Oct 12, 2011
Danny Nolan replied to Danny Nolan's discussion Wireless Bridging part 2
"On a side note, there may be line of sight, I will be checking into that later today. It would be a very narrow line of sight with buildings within 2degrees in either direction, if it exists."
Sep 28, 2011
Danny Nolan posted a discussion

Wireless Bridging part 2

A few months back I had to build a bridge that connected a camera at a front gate to a firewall in a service building 500ft away. It worked fine, but the short distance and Line of sight made it easy as pie. Now, I have to bridge an office and a barn, the distance between the two locations is approximately 3000m, or 1.85 miles. Does anyone have any experience with this and can throw me some pointers. I have never bridged a distance this far, the 500ft bridge was my biggest so far. There is…See More
Sep 28, 2011
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Mike Rigsby replied to Danny Nolan's discussion Where do you buy your supplies?
" We don't need new networking tools & such too often so, if/when we generally just check our usual vendor for sundry items, which is pcconnection.com  For cable, I keep bulk boxes of Cat5e patch and riser cable on hand which we…"
Jun 8, 2011
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Jun 3, 2011
Danny Nolan replied to Danny Nolan's discussion Small scale Network...BOTTLED CHAOS
"I wrote this today, think this would be ok for the Computer Replacement Policy?"
May 11, 2011
Danny Nolan replied to Danny Nolan's discussion Small scale Network...BOTTLED CHAOS
"We have Windows workstations and linux servers. The servers are for VOIP, an old samba setup that is no longer used (since before I joined their staff), and a network video recorder.   For the central file stuff, it would likely need a file…"
May 10, 2011
Jeff Hengesbach replied to Danny Nolan's discussion Small scale Network...BOTTLED CHAOS
"Danny,   Do you currently have any form of central authentication? You also mention a handful of existing servers.  Is your environment Windows, Linux or otherwise centric?  If you are windows centric going with AD will provide you…"
May 10, 2011
Danny Nolan replied to Danny Nolan's discussion Small scale Network...BOTTLED CHAOS
"I have one other question, how old would you let a workstation get before you tell the man with the bank account its time to man up and order new systems?   The Executive Assistant sitting in the next office over has a Dell workstation from…"
May 6, 2011
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May 6, 2011
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May 6, 2011
Danny Nolan replied to Graycat's discussion Getting the message out ....
"My company is small, I use my time wisely and drive to each location and spread the info by word of mouth. Eats up a good 2 hrs daily."
May 6, 2011

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IT Manager / SysAdmin
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At 9:14pm on May 6, 2011, Wesley "Nonapeptide" said…
Hello Danny! Nice to have you here. So how small is small-scale? Like... a dozen PCs or less?
At 9:27pm on May 6, 2011, Danny Nolan said…

We have 7 PCs, 2 laptops in the main office, 2 PCs at the store, 2 PCs and 2 Laptops at the barns. On top of that, we also use 15 voip phones, 7 Ethernet connected printers, 15 IP cameras, a PoE timeclock....also have a VOIP server, two network video recorders, and a samba server that goes unused.

 

I think that counts as small.

 

Your 10 things lists are awesome. If I could post a pic of the label maker I just had delivered I would. Not long after reading that post on USB tools, I purchased a 64GB USB flash drive, and used YUMI to load it up with various boot utilities. After that I added portable Apps, driver packages for all the PCs, and  a 2GB collection of Genisis Roms.

 

Monday I get to audit 3 x 48 port patch panels, 4 x 24 port Ethernet smart switches, and a huge mess of cables at each. I think I will need more labels....

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