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I'm after some networking pointers - what would be the best way to link two offices together, in order that IP phones in one office can see the phone system in the main office? Currently the place I work at has two offices, separated by about 200 miles. We have a phone system in the main office and a load of IP phones that talk over the network. nice and simple. For the other office I've setup a 'site to site' VPN using two Draytek 2860s (with different networks in each office) for the IP phones there to talk to the main site, and this seems to work fine. BUT, every now and then, we get really crappy voice quality either between sites on internal calls, or on external calls from the second office, or both. Usual course of action is 'reboot' one or both ends of the site to site link, but I have also replaced both routers in the last six months, and the problem still occurs. Main office has 70/70meg leased line, other office has 'home fibre' which is about 70 down and 20 up. Is there a better way to link the two sites so that the phones can route through the phone system? Web traffic can go out over each sites respective connection, but calls (and the call handling software loaded on the PCs) needs to communicate with the main site over the site to site link. I actually have a budget! so I can buy better / different hardware if needed, so any hardware or software suggestions are gratefully received, as its a loving pain in the arse to get bombarded with 'the phones are crap again' calls when I have a thousand other things to do.
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another possibly dumb question: What would be the best router for a 500meg leased line ? yes, it's 500 meg, 500/1000 line. Normally we sell up to 100/100 and use Draytek gear, which works fine for us. But checking the specs on Drayteks, the WAN throughput seems to be listed at 300meg - does this mean that the pinch point would then be the router ? If so, what routers would you gusy suggest? The service is a literal 'wires only' as in the provider will terminate a cable with an RJ45 on the end, no managed switch etc.
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Lungboy posted:Do modern motherboards ever come with ide sockets for old but still perfectly good hdds? everything mainstream I've seen is SATA only these days, though some specialist manufacturer may still do them. however, these exist: https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Port-Express-Controller-Adapter/dp/B000YAX13Y if you have disks that you don't want to bin. edit: whoops, didn't see the huge amount of new replies already posted! spiny fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Apr 25, 2017 |
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Hi all, i'm after some recommendations for a stand alone webcam that can be viewed without needing to authenticate. curerntly I have a PC with a logitech webcam and 'WebCamPro' or something like that which shows the stream on port 80 on the PC, I then port forward on my router to 8888 or whatever, and the stream can then be Iframed on a web page. I would like to replace all that with a single IP Cam that can do the same thing. All I can find at the moment are CCTV style cams that require a login to a portal, and do not stream publicly. the stream would rarely get moe then 5 or 6 concurrent views, and the pc sits on a 100meg leased line connection. I'd prefer an IP Cam than I can just connect to the network, and let it do it's thing, but at a push, would a RaspPi cope with this ?
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Aug 31, 2017 11:23
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FCKGW posted:Any basic Dahua or Hikvision IP should be able to do this. I like the Dahua 1320 as an entry level camera, around $65 on eBay. They all have rstp streams that can be piped to a webpage. thanks, I won't need to re-steam I don't think, we have had no problems using an inhouse PC so far, it's just bulky and the PC is old and needs replacing.
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