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The XBOX One is the first XBOX that is truly meant as a media center AND gaming console. Reminds me of the original Xbox chipped easily allowing video and gaming. With connectivity comes networking considerations and the question of wireless versus wired becomes vital. Or does it? How much lag is too much? The all important ping time for proper gaming and a wireless connection is considered

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Cabling gone bad (or sympathy for Ted Stevens)  I wanted to address a growing concern I find when using Facebook, LinkedIn, or at Competencsolutions. While I'm a huge supporter of Networking students building home labs I am always concerned by the number of cabling nightmares that get posted even by seasoned students on their way to a networking career. Messy cables are the signature of a

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The topic came up at CompetencSolutions as to whether HP switches can run CDP or do network discovery with Cisco devices. And the answer is yes and know. Yes they run CDP but only halfway and even less with the Comware. Some clarification is in order.  So the basics of what is LLDP? It stands for link layer discovery protocol. What it does is it allows you to discover devices from

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Hello hello and a quick tip from my time at CompetenCSolutions on recovering a HP E3500yl-24G-PoE+ J9310A E3500yl-24G-PoE+ J9310A Find yourself staring at one of these in a switching closet with no idea how to recover or get logged in then here is a step by step on turning the unknown little beast into a tame puppy. First a word about how you should be able to login. On the

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