Don’t forget tower training and equipment
As you enter the winter in most of the United States, set aside some time to review your equipment status for your tower climbers. Are their harnesses in need of replacement due to age? What times were you always short …
The ever-evolving service provider
Some of you may have noticed a subtle difference in the title. In many of my previous posts and articles, wISP was written as WISP. Note the capitalization of W. This represents a shift from Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) …
A consultant’s perspective
Throughout this series, I have included some of my own perspectives where relevant. This post is some of the things I look at from my perspective. Some things I have gotten right over the years and some things I have …
Ninjas and network admins
From my early youth, Ninjas have been a fascinating subject for me. They are what attracted me to my main hobby of collecting G.I. Joes. Movies like American Ninja, Ninja Magazine, and the 80’s Ninja craze fueled this passion. Several …
DNS Reaper tool
DNS Reaper is yet another sub-domain takeover tool, but with an emphasis on accuracy, speed and the number of signatures in our arsenal! We can scan around 50 subdomains per second, testing each one with over 50 takeover signatures. This …
Learn BGP for $6.99 for My Patreons
This content is for Patreon subscribers of the j2 blog. Please consider becoming a Patreon subscriber for as little as $1 a month. This helps to provide higher quality content, more podcasts, and other goodies on this blog.To view this …
Switch VLAN configuration de-mystified
There seems to be a great deal of confusion when it comes to VLAN configuration across different platforms. In this article, I am going to clarify some often misunderstood terms and bad configurations I see. Let’s start with some terms …
Data Center redundancy explained
Fiber Store has an article explaining what things like N+1 and other terms used to describe Data Center redundancy mean. https://community.fs.com/blog/understanding-data-center-redundancy.html
Cambium QOE DPI
As an ISP you probably have an inkling of where your customers are pulling data from. With the new Cambium QOE software, you can know for sure. What do you notice about this? -Netflix-Roku-Youtube-Amazon Video-HuluAll streaming services. Your customers are …