* Posts by Josh Dinsdale

3 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2013

Not that scary or that hard: Two decades of VLANS

Josh Dinsdale

I work for a small IT consultancy mainly working with SMB's and Schools. We were invited into a school one time to look into tendering for a site-wide-wireless project. After performing an in depth survey of the network and determining that it was an unholy mess, my colleague asked the on-site Tech in only semi-mock exasperation "Where are all your VLANs?" to which the Tech replied, "Well obviously they're in the server cupboard with the rest of the IT gear".

Josh Dinsdale

Whats a VLAN?

I work for a small IT Support consultancy dealing mainly with SMB's and Schools. We once visited a school to look at some project work. After performing an extensive survey of the network and systems and finding it all a bit of an unholy mess, my colleague jokingly asked the onsite Tech "Where are your VLANs?". He replied that they were in the server cupboard...

Google embiggens its fat vid pipe Chromecast with TEN new supported apps

Josh Dinsdale

Re: Plex is a big deal

Plex has a DLNA Server built in and is quite capable of serving DLNA clients...