Most Meraki appliances come with DHCP enabled on the WAN interface. Once you connect to the Internet through such a configuration you can claim the device using your Meraki account and then configure it. However, what if the Internet connection at your location won’t actually work with a DHCP WAN address. If you need to configure a static WAN address in order for your appliance to connect to the Internet then you’ll need to first connect an Ethernet cable to a LAN port of your appliance and your computer and make sure to disable any other interfaces on your computer. Also configure the network settings to use DHCP. Then open…
-
-
Daylite 3.9
Daylite 3.9 is actually a fairly substantial update from 3.8. This mainly stems from the fact that 3.9 uses PostgreSQL rather than OpenBase, and it runs Postgres on a dedicated server (not that this increases complexity too much as it’s going to discover those databases using Bonjour). This gives the application speed and the developers a number of new options they hadn’t had before. The MarketCircle developers will likely be able to come to market with new changes faster, thus being able to make you more productive with your productivity app. Also expect more 3rd party developers. Why? Because PostgreSQL is way more popular than OpenBase, is flexible for exchanging…
-
Using Final Cut Server to edit over a WAN?
Maybe you will, maybe not… In terms of how it taxes the network, clips will typically be 5 to 25MB per second (big B there By the Way) according to how many frames per second and other design considerations. Obviously even if there is a 5MB pipe, the clips are likely too big to edit given a live master asset so you’d need to cache locally, which means for each clip (and however many clips in a project) you’re talking about that much data caching to the local host before you can start editing. To put this into a pseudo-real-world scenario (taking collisions, encryption and network latency out of the…
-
Dual WAN Connections
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Often, a single internet connection is all that is needed to allow a group of computers to access the internet for websites, email and chatting. DSL, Cable Modem or a single T1 can often provide enough bandwidth for a small group of users. As your company grows, there can come a point where the speed of the internet connection becomes a bottleneck, increasing the time for web pages to load and for emails to be sent and received. After you hit the limits of what a single connection is able to provide, one very cost effective way to address the issue is to add…