[Rack] Ideas for the network rebuild

[Jonathan Lassoff]

I think that's a pretty good view of the existing built-in options.

The basement copper is so lulzy. If I'm not mistaken, there is a
Cat5-y segment hanging down from the DJ Booth to a basement window
grille, where it dips inside and is stapled along an ~east-west rafter
to a little junction box, where it's re-terminated to more cat5 and
onward to the old PacBell MPOE near the grocer in the basement.
I haven't seen it myself, but lore from Dr. Jesus is that it's a
"classic" 3/8" screw-down post.
The whole point of that junction box was to eventually run power over
some extra Cat5 pairs and colo the modem in the basement for increased
bit flow.
I don't think it's going to make a huge difference, and given how we
can't go to the basement anymore, it makes sense to keep upstairs.

I'd like to see Sonic stay around if possible.

There are some more APs up on Twin Peaks since the last time I setup
st01-noisebridge-sfo. It's probably worth rescanning and seeing what
can be reached.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
> Thanks for doing that Casey.
>
> Jonathan Lassoff wrote on 2014-09-02 18:57:
>> How can I get at biketrailer (love this new name!) from remote?
>> Can I SSH into the old Sonic IP as vyatta? Nothing seems to be
>> listening on tcp/22 or tcp/2222.
>
> The Sonic link is still down, that is something we should have more of a
> discussion about. Our options are to keep Sonic or get rid of it.
>
> Keeping Sonic Pros:
> * Sonic is good and wholesome and giving them our money is great
> * Sonic is good about support
> * We already have static addresses through them
> * There's a good chance if someone with an official title from
> Noisebridge calls them and declares that we're a 501c3, they'll give us
> a discount on our bill
> * It's great to have fail over for when Monkeybrains goes down
>
> Keeping Sonic Cons:
> * A few people need to spend most of a day running new cable down to the
> basement
> * We are spending money on the internet connection
>
> Getting Rid of Sonic and only depending on Monkeybrains Pros:
> * We don't have to deal with running ethernet down into the basement
> * We would be saving some money form not paying for the Sonic link
>
> Getting Rid of Sonic and only depending on Monkeybrains Cons:
> * Needing to pay more money to Monkeybrains for a couple static IPs
> * Monkeybrains is a flakier link than Sonic
> * We would have no fail over when Sonic goes down
> * Monkeybrains' support can also at time be flaky and hard to get ahold of
>
> Does that sum most of it up?
>
> --
> Rubin
> rubin at starset.net
>