What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Watching my Desk phone restart every 5-10 minutes saying " Server not found" "trying LAN"
Then it comes up.Tis gonna be a great day.
edit I dont know the first thing about these Toshiba IP Series Phones, or even how the have our phone system set up ( is it a PBX? The world may never know)
do you have an extension? then you have a PBX.
We have one new PC connect to the network today ( New sales man started today) and we think that is what caused it.
Conflicting IP addresses, maybe?
That's what we were thinking as well.
Not using DHCP properly. Goes well with all of the other issues you've mentioned.
of course it does
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Just fixed a sound issue. The issue was caused originally by the AV company that we used who sold us a mixer that was installed in a podium and did not have xlr for microphones. The main purpose of this podium , is surprise, to be connected to our house sound. After looking at it I see the original tech just used a converted box ( xlr to trs ). When delivered to us, eh should have admitted right then and there they did not get the mixer right. I know these people arent stupid so i just see them as lazy and dishonest. Now the converter box appears to be dead and she did not have it connected to the external speaker jack anyway. No wonder I don't have much hair left.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just fixed a sound issue. The issue was caused originally by the AV company that we used who sold us a mixer that was installed in a podium and did not have xlr for microphones. The main purpose of this podium , is surprise, to be connected to our house sound. After looking at it I see the original tech just used a converted box ( xlr to trs ). When delivered to us, eh should have admitted right then and there they did not get the mixer right. I know these people arent stupid so i just see them as lazy and dishonest. Now the converter box appears to be dead and she did not have it connected to the external speaker jack anyway. No wonder I don't have much hair left.
Why would anyone sign off on a mixer for microphones that didn't have XLR inputs??? What the hell kind of cheap line mixer was installed? Let me know if you need mixer / audio advice... My degree is in audio engineering.
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@RojoLoco Thanks! I don't know why it was signed off on. Its the same person that does our phone system. She just asked to come look at it this morning. I get there and I see a converter box plugged into the aux jack. The converter box is goes to a mic jack on the wall for reference. She didnt have the right cable to go from wall to mixer so I had to go find one of those. After that it worked fine, for being a cheap mixer.
I couldnt tell what brand mixer it was but who designs a lecturne system with a mixer that doesn't have a single xlr/mic jack on it. Its maddening. She should have known better but they definitely should have known better.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco Thanks! I don't know why it was signed off on. Its the same person that does our phone system.
LOL, oh THAT person.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco Thanks! I don't know why it was signed off on. Its the same person that does our phone system.
LOL, oh THAT person.
yeah - you know. that person who 'just works there'.
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LOL .
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@jmoore a lecturne system really only needs 1 channel of mic preamp. Those will have XLR and TRS out, plus input/output levels. If it's just 1 mic, you don't actually need a multi channel mixer.
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@RojoLoco Yeah true. I can, however, see the need if they want to play music or a vhs/dvd over the house sound there. Someone wants to occasionally. My issue is that for something primarily used as a podium , talking to 500 people when the room is full, it doesn't have a single mic jack on it and only trs and a stereo rca pair on it.
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@Dashrender I try to help her with solutions when I can. I sent her links to Atlas and Bogen sound products so she could familiarize herself with products. I still end up fixing messes like this though. Ok let me correct, its not fixed as I would rip the whole mixer out and replace it but they don't want to spend extra money now.
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@jmoore true. In many applications, I find that regular pro audio gear is a far simpler and less expensive solution than full on contractor/install type gear (like Bogen, etc). But it totally depends on the specific needs.
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For the record - I work with restaurants . Not fucking phones. I know nothing about PBX, Phone systems, Nothing of that sort. My job is to keep Restaurants up, working and making money. - That's it.
The Office has one person ( Service Manager) who takes care of the equipment. (This comes from the owner - too many cooks in the kitchen type bull shit)@DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller : I was told::: It was either The old server that we just changed - gave the PC a IP address, and that PC was the powered off since the switch, with it coming on it created The IP Conflict, restarting the phones and computer in question resolved the issue, and haven't had an issue with the phones. ( this is what i Was told when I asked.) *Kind of makes sense, but wouldn't DHCP be flushed at shut down?
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The something held on to the IP from DHCP and caused the issue- WE got it back up and going though, so he isnt looking into it.Regardless that was the only thing that was changed and how it was presented to me when I asked.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
For the record - I work with restaurants . Not fucking phones. I know nothing about PBX, Phone systems, Nothing of that sort. My job is to keep Restaurants up, working and making money. - That's it.
The Office has one person ( Service Manager) who takes care of the equipment. (This comes from the owner - too many cooks in the kitchen type bull shit)@DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller : I was told::: It was either The old server that we just changed - gave the PC a IP address, and that PC was the powered off since the switch, with it coming on it created The IP Conflict, restarting the phones and computer in question resolved the issue, and haven't had an issue with the phones. ( this is what i Was told when I asked.) *Kind of makes sense, but wouldn't DHCP be flushed at shut down?
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The something held on to the IP from DHCP and caused the issue- WE got it back up and going though, so he isnt looking into it.Regardless that was the only thing that was changed and how it was presented to me when I asked.
DHCP isn't flushed ever (really) but you can have DHCP leases expire and get renewed. The life of a DHCP lease is what could cause a client to get an IP address, go offline and have another statically assigned device come online and use the same address.
IP conflicts are generally because 1 device has a reservation, while another device is statically assigned and both are on the same network at the same time.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
For the record - I work with restaurants . Not fucking phones. I know nothing about PBX, Phone systems, Nothing of that sort. My job is to keep Restaurants up, working and making money. - That's it.
The Office has one person ( Service Manager) who takes care of the equipment. (This comes from the owner - too many cooks in the kitchen type bull shit)@DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller : I was told::: It was either The old server that we just changed - gave the PC a IP address, and that PC was the powered off since the switch, with it coming on it created The IP Conflict, restarting the phones and computer in question resolved the issue, and haven't had an issue with the phones. ( this is what i Was told when I asked.) *Kind of makes sense, but wouldn't DHCP be flushed at shut down?
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The something held on to the IP from DHCP and caused the issue- WE got it back up and going though, so he isnt looking into it.Regardless that was the only thing that was changed and how it was presented to me when I asked.
DHCP isn't flushed ever (really) but you can have DHCP leases expire and get renewed. The life of a DHCP lease is what could cause a client to get an IP address, go offline and have another statically assigned device come online and use the same address.
IP conflicts are generally because 1 device has a reservation, while another device is statically assigned and both are on the same network at the same time.
Learn something new everyday,
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Creating a fresh Win 10 VM for Hyper-V training/documentation and listening to Sleep. Also hoping Sleep's guitarist doesn't lose another toe to the diabeetus, he just canceled his other band's tour that kicked off here on Thursday.
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Trying to find the value of some stamps (well a selection of about 4000)
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It's old VM killin' time!
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's old VM killin' time!
Wait! I'm still using that one!
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's old VM killin' time!
Wait! I'm still using that one!
You had until Friday to tell me.
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Trying to select a switch for the Stores.
Find one then change my mind, look for something else and think "do I really need this advanced"??Requirements are:-
Web Managed
24port
Non-PoE and PoE Version
Layer 3 lite/Layer2+ is a bonus (so I can do some simple routing)Keep going from
Ubiquiti 24 Lite (£160 ish)
HP Office Connect 1920 (£120 ish)
Netgear GS724Tv4 (£106 ish)Then PoE version
Ubiquiti 24 (£390)
HP Office Connect 1920 PoE (£253)
Netgear GS724TPv2 PoE (£205)But then Netgear have the prosafe range
guess I just need to pick one and stick to it
