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some kinda jackal posted:Anyone know if there are brackets on the market that will flush mount a 7206 VXR in a rack rather than half-out or deep inset? I not particularly interested in putting it on a shelf, but I'm less interested in having it sticking out, or having to go spelunking inside my rack to swap a cable or two. Doesn't look like anything official. If it were me, I'd just buy some generic solid sided rack ears and drill/countersink my own holes. https://www.penn-elcom.com/us/3u-black-rack-mounting-bracket-r1206-3u
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...what in the god drat are you doing with a 7206VXR in 2024? 
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Doesn't look like anything official. If it were me, I'd just buy some generic solid sided rack ears and drill/countersink my own holes. This is the way - rack ears, a drill, and some screws.
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Kazinsal posted:...what in the god drat are you doing with a 7206VXR in 2024? Yeah, that was going to be my question. Terminating a SONET line or some other legacy non-Ethernet interface, maybe? Those were old back in 2011 when I was an intern working with them, and the official end of support was in 2017.
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Kazinsal posted:...what in the god drat are you doing with a 7206VXR in 2024? This is in my own little retro rack, not anythimg production  n0tqu1tesane posted:Doesn't look like anything official. If it were me, I'd just buy some generic solid sided rack ears and drill/countersink my own holes. This is probably what I'm going to end up doing, thanks!
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Not necessarily Cisco related, but my father in law is moving his small business into a small office building, and has asked me to recommend some equipment and get them up and running. They don’t have much for requirements, like 5 desktop pcs, a few laptops, and some sort of wireless camera system he got from Best Buy. Basically all of my experience is with enterprise gear, so I’m not very up to date on what’s good for tiny business/consumer grade stuff. Anybody got router recommendations? I’m thinking he might need 1, or maaaybe 2 WAPs too. How is the ASUS stuff for that? I use an ASUS at home and the management tool seems like it has any features he’d possibly need. Also gonna get him some sort of unmanaged gig switch, the building has network runs already, not sure if they’re terminated on a patch panel or just hanging wires or what, but we’ll want to have all the wall jacks usable too. Not really worried about figuring out a switch, mostly looking for router recs, hopefully something that works decent with WAPs. Tetramin fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Dec 21, 2024 |
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Would Meraki Go work for you? Otherwise the Unifi Cloud Gateway Ultra is cheap and can be managed remotely if you're going to be asked to help out.
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Thanks Ants posted:Would Meraki Go work for you? Otherwise the Unifi Cloud Gateway Ultra is cheap and can be managed remotely if you're going to be asked to help out. Ahh I always forget about Ubiquity. The cloud gateway looks pretty solid. The device itself is a WAP too, right? I’m sure I will end up helping out, so I’m definitely gonna get something I can manage remotely. I think this plus a dumb switch would do the trick, maybe add another WAP later on. Hopefully they’re not back ordered, think he’s trying to be ready to go on Feb 1. Meraki Go seems good as well, I’ve managed Meraki networks at previous jobs and always liked them well enough. I think it’ll just come down to how much he wants to spend. Thanks!
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Tetramin posted:Ahh I always forget about Ubiquity. The cloud gateway looks pretty solid. The device itself is a WAP too, right? I’m sure I will end up helping out, so I’m definitely gonna get something I can manage remotely. The ultra doesn’t have an AP built in. The express does, but I don’t recommend it. The Ultra is pretty well stocked and you can get it plus an AP for around $250 total. I have a Meraki Go router and AP collecting dust in my drawer if you want to just pay shipping for it, but I don’t recommend it over Unifi, and it is in no way similar to Cisco Catalyst or Meraki. It’s a completely different interface.
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I encourage you not to buy unmanaged switches for business no matter how simple the need seems. When things don't go right -- and this is not new inside plant -- it's a thousand times harder to troubleshoot anything.
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guppy posted:I encourage you not to buy unmanaged switches for business no matter how simple the need seems. When things don't go right -- and this is not new inside plant -- it's a thousand times harder to troubleshoot anything. Yeeaaah. I’d been kind of thinking about that. How are the ubiquity switches? Would be a huge plus to be able to remotely manage those from the same platform as the gateway.
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I have not used Ubiquiti, but what I've always heard is that they are "okay" for small jobs but support is basically nonexistent, so keep a few spares around if you're going that route.
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For a small office, ubiquity is fine - they're all in on the web managed portal like Meraki is. So if you get their WiFi ap, it's worth grabbing the switch too. If you don't have any special firewall requirements (VPN, etc) it's probably also worth getting the firewall from them too for that single pane of glass overview the portal provides when you have to debug stuff.
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