This is my oldest daughter and I...They are inducing her tonight and little Steiner Knox will be here before we know it...I am still not believing I'm a grandfather...especially since my other daughter is 7...still doing the Dad thing full time...

I am nowhere near an expert in this areas but before coming to a SMB, I worked in a huge enterprise with a petabyte+ of SAN storage and we had ESX VM's all over the place...there were some redundancy issues when it came to some SAN errors in the firmware but overall, ESX was pretty solid.

Here at my one man IT shop and thanks to ML's, I am set up on Hyper-V.

Update on yesterday's reboot. Here is what "WebRoot" said:

The particular issue being reported is related to a wireless keyboard being in place. There are a few Microsoft wireless keyboards that the drivers can conflict with ours, at this time the workaround sent would resolve this issue however a more permanent fix is being developed.

So my wireless keyboard was at fault. We changed a setting and now it is working. I'm very impressed with their support and expanding my testing of WebRoot. .

@Pete-S said in Online IT eduction sites?:

I've seen a couple of sites mentioned for training in the IT field.
I probably missed a ton though. What others are worth looking at?

This is the list so far (in alphabetical order):

• linuxacademy.com
• pluralsight.com
• udemy.com

Udemy is pretty good...they run sales often (if they are really "sales") and most of the purchased courses I've taken have been very good.

So it is official now...wonder what they can do in 6 episodes, if it won't be the "alien conspiracy" plot...

http://www.fox.com/the-x-files/thexfiles

It's true...when winter weather is forecasted in Arkansas, we do get our bread and milk...I did so in shorts yesterday...a WINTER STORM WATCH and it was a nice 73 degrees yesterday.

This morning, WINTER STORM WARNING and 23 degrees...gotta love it!

I've been in theatre for 28 years (community level)...I've been in the kids ministry for 5 years (not ordained but as a volunteer and once as Interim Pastor as they searched for a new one.) I'm in front of the kids all the time and have done a few things in front of our congregation (large church)...last night, after this skit me and the kids pastor did (pictured), I was told I'd have to lead the congregation in a prayer...THAT, my friends, was so scary...not sure what it is about public prayer but to choose the words and lead 200-300 that were there last night, man I was scared but it went well...and I got to use my Surface Pro 3...:)

Looks like the topic ran away from me...been swamped with other things this past week...glad to see it made for good conversation.

Can't see the whole tree but my wife and baby girl set ours up...and made them their favorite hot chocolate...

Might be the best yet...

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@scottalanmiller said in Wix Form "Harry Potter" Issue:

@garak0410 said in Wix Form "Harry Potter" Issue:

@scottalanmiller said in Wix Form "Harry Potter" Issue:

Not familiar with Wix at all, I'm afraid. They don't have a good reputation. The new GeoCities.

Well it does help me as I am still in a SOLO IT shop after 11 years...don't have time to code a website...

Is Wix saving you time? LOL

You don't code websites, you use tools like Hugo or Gatsby if you need something simple, or WordPress if you need a CMS.

One of the reasons those tools are recommended for businesses is the time savings.

It might actually help now, there's every possibility that it might actually be faster to move to something else than to troubleshoot Wix where you are dependent on their support.

Well, it also helps that the owners daughter wants control of website too so this is another reason I did Wix about 5-6 years ago.

@scottalanmiller said in Wix Form "Harry Potter" Issue:

Not familiar with Wix at all, I'm afraid. They don't have a good reputation. The new GeoCities.

Well it does help me as I am still in a SOLO IT shop after 11 years...don't have time to code a website...

I have set up a form in Wix to help set up a job board here at our company...

http://www.pinnaclestructures.com/job-board

When pulling up in Edge, it looks and works fine. In Chrome or Safari (desktop and mobile), it sometimes shows a "Harry Potter" template.

I contacted WIX SUPPORT and even got in touch with the Dev but they said they never seen that before. As much as I could, I combed that page in Wix to look for any reference to this Harry Potter thing but can't find it.

Now, this has become a "thing" with management...so beyond changing the form, any other places I can look at to fix this?

We now have 6 people who work out of state. 4 in Texas, 1 in California and 1 in Maryland. They all have domain connected laptops that I pre-configure with our applications before they get them and they connect to our VPN via the build in VPN connector in Windows 10/11. Our VPN is provided by our Windows Server with port forwarding on our ISP provided Vigor firewall.

I understand issues like internet pipes and the "hops" it takes to get back to our office on VPN but we see some significant drops in speed. Some apps that require a lot of file transfers, are almost unusable.

Is there anything I can do on our end to aid in some speed increases? I'm also willing to spend money if we have to on software or a network appliance.

Thanks!

Well, I thought I was done with this project...I did fix the Isolated issue and got his generator connected but now he wrote me today saying mostly his televisions and phones are not connecting:

I think this is because of the 3 OFFLINE devices shown earlier in this post...I do have 3 more Beacons to install but he won't let me do it when his wife is home...not that this is the answer to the problems but worth a try...the "Living Room TV" should be getting a fair signal from the CLOSET AP.

I have a new BEACON in his study and it is strong and that is pretty much the only room he goes into.

One thing of note...this house is full of thick, high quality timber/wood walls. And it just may have to have a "ton" of Extenders...

Well, I reconnected IN LAW ACCESS POINT to the wired network, it readopted, set to Mesh, put it back on PoE only and while it took a bit (because I had to reboot every device), we are working now!

Here is a description of the topology:

Cloud Key Plugged into Primary Switch (that's the fiber modem resting on top)

Fiber modem is plugged into the Pepwave Router/Gateway into LAN/WAN and the LAN&Console port goes back to our Uni Switch.

The AccessPoint called CLOSET is plugged into this switch.

The AccessPoint called STORAGE ROOM is plugged into an 8 port UniSwitch upstairs which has a cable that goes down to the Primary Switch.

The AccessPoint called IN-LAW ACCESS POINT was configured on the primary switch and then I moved it to the In-Law room in hopes it will boost signal outside. It is just plugged in POE and shows up on network as WIRED for some reason but shows ISOLATED.

I'm ready to factory reset devices if I need to but lord help me if I have to create a new Wi-Fi SSID and password...which I shouldn't...

My goal now is to fix the ISOLATION issues and make sure that farthest AP (IN-LAW) can give enough Wi-FI outside to his generator to connect. I am heading to his house now and hope to have it done by 12 central if I can.

@jasgot said in UniFi Network With "Isolated" Access Points and Extenders:

@jasgot said in UniFi Network With "Isolated" Access Points and Extenders:

@garak0410 The wired unit shouldn't be isolated. I have had this many times. The only solution for us was to SSH to the unit and factory reset it, then re-adopt it.

Since you have the IP of both, you should be able to SSh to both. If not, you'll need a paper clip

I actually used a SIM tool to reset it before I left and it oddly didn't reset...guess I need to hold it longer.

I find it odd that the other extenders went OFFLINE too.

The In-Law Access Point is actually just PoE powered and in the, well, in-law room. It may show wired on the network but it isn't.

I'm appealing to the Ubiquity experts here...

How do you fix the annoying "ISOLATED" issue. I think this would resolve the issues of the extenders not pushing out very far...I need it to go less than 100 feet to a generator that is WiFi capable and not only does it cut out but the "app" for the generator doesn't' want to accept the password for the SSID.

Thanks!
Brian

Thanks for the suggestions, help and talking it through...it is always something simple and overlooked.