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I am in an almost identical situation right now, except I am at the end of stage 1, maybe 2. This gives me hope but gives me heartburn too knowing that I have to go through the same hoops and walls
You create a good design, test it, and put it into production.
Granted I've been doing this since Bill Gates was a kid, but seriously, muddling through it is the wrong approach.
Reading this case study I see two issues:
1) if you don't start with a plan with solid requirements, you can really waste time trying to make a Toyota Corolla ready to compete in the Indy 500.
2) Often businesses and business owners have really no clue about technology. Assuming you can run your business on a $20 router with a 50-cent power supply is naive, at best.
You get what you pay for.
If, at day one, you said, look, here's a Cisco router and a Cisco WLAN system. It will cost you $1500, but when I come back in a year, it will still be running, and it can be configured or re-configured to do just about anything.
If you cannot afford it, here is a lower-cost Sonicwall, Aerohive, or Aruba solution.
Trying to use consumer-grade equipment for a business is a huge mistake. Most of it does not have the feature-set you need, and most does not have the stability and reliability/redundancy features that are also needed.
Been there, done that.
To race in the Indy 500 you start with a race car and refine it, don't try to muddle through to try to make your Honda Civic look like a Honda Indy car
Granted I've been doing this since Bill Gates was a kid, but seriously, muddling through it is the wrong approach.
Reading this case study I see two issues:
1) if you don't start with a plan with solid requirements, you can really waste time trying to make a Toyota Corolla ready to compete in the Indy 500.
2) Often businesses and business owners have really no clue about technology. Assuming you can run your business on a $20 router with a 50-cent power supply is naive, at best.
You get what you pay for.
If, at day one, you said, look, here's a Cisco router and a Cisco WLAN system. It will cost you $1500, but when I come back in a year, it will still be running, and it can be configured or re-configured to do just about anything.
If you cannot afford it, here is a lower-cost Sonicwall, Aerohive, or Aruba solution.
Trying to use consumer-grade equipment for a business is a huge mistake. Most of it does not have the feature-set you need, and most does not have the stability and reliability/redundancy features that are also needed.
Been there, done that.
To race in the Indy 500 you start with a race car and refine it, don't try to muddle through to try to make your Honda Civic look like a Honda Indy car
First, you mentioned near the end of Stage Five, "The Speedtest was upwards of 50 gpbs download".
50Gbps WAN link?? Please clarify if this is correct because if so, I am moving to your city.
Second, how did the client react to you through all this? Often clients are ignorant of who is at fault, they see you onsite working the issue and say "hey, why aren't YOU getting it done?". Did you have to deal with that much?
50Gbps WAN link?? Please clarify if this is correct because if so, I am moving to your city.
Second, how did the client react to you through all this? Often clients are ignorant of who is at fault, they see you onsite working the issue and say "hey, why aren't YOU getting it done?". Did you have to deal with that much?
...and the ISP that insists that it be used. It was quite the unpleasant surprise the first time I discovered that you can't turn off DHCP, which means forget using DNS and a Windoze domain on that subnet.
My usual solution for small clients that are stuck with this ISP (for whatever reason) is to create a proper network behind a separate router of my choosing. The Westell network can be "public" and the inner network is secured. It's a pain to set up routing through the Westell, but at least it works and you are reasonably isolated from that ISP's forced insanity.
My usual solution for small clients that are stuck with this ISP (for whatever reason) is to create a proper network behind a separate router of my choosing. The Westell network can be "public" and the inner network is secured. It's a pain to set up routing through the Westell, but at least it works and you are reasonably isolated from that ISP's forced insanity.
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