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I'm somewhat skeptical about the advice given out on this site, while it looks ok on first glance, can I really trust their "professional advice" if their corpo

I'm somewhat skeptical about the advice given out on this site, while it looks ok on first glance, can I really trust their "professional advice" if their corporate parent site [0] is serving up, as of this writing, an expired SSL cert? What other things might they be missing? [0] https://outpost.plus https://outpost.plus

ShakataGaNai 3y ago
Can you trust the advice of any random website? Can you trust the advice of someone here on Hacker News? Can I trust your commentary about their advice? The the answer largely depends on what you're trusting the advice for. Is it medical advice? Trust none of it. Is it the advice going to cost you a lot of money? I'd ask an expert. The site here is purely informational-use-at-your-own-risk. No different than anything else on the internet. It'll get you started on your research so you can have some basis upon which to ask/talk to each other. Hey, even links to a community discord where you can talk to like minded individuals and maybe get some more clarity.
- OJFord 3y ago
  Eh in general sure. But if you're giving networking advice you definitely want to either opinionatedly not use TLS ('use case doesn't warrant it, so am against HTTPS all the things'), or have a valid cert.
  - DanAtC 3y ago
    Real network engineers don't concern themselves with anything above layer 3.
- deleted 3y ago
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protocolture 3y ago
I had a client who had quite a decent network, but was always having issues. Upon investigating and subsequently asking him how he designed his last mile, he pointed us at the facebook wisp operators group. He was servicing high value customers with large dedicated speeds, based on a network design that kind of works for servicing trailer parks in rural USA. Mostly because the loudest voices in the space come from the jankiest moron wisp operators. The issue is that a lot of the advice is bad, the good advice costs money and is indistinguishable for the lay person from the bad advice, and its very easy to access terrible advice. This website isn't terrible, but it would serve to pay for the best advice possible before spending even more money on the wrong hardware in the wrong area.
- ikiris 3y ago
  This is the most accurate description of wisp information handoff I've ever seen.
- arccy 2y ago
  > the good advice costs money and is indistinguishable for the lay person from the bad advice the lay person also may not be able to identify who's advice is worth paying for
  - protocolture 2y ago
    Yeah thats the issue. Well that and that most WISP operators have bought in to this idea that a non technical person can engineer a network for 1000 customers without support, so its not just that they dont know who to get advice from, they have been told they should be able to figure it out without help.

ShakataGaNai 3y ago

Can you trust the advice of any random website? Can you trust the advice of someone here on Hacker News? Can I trust your commentary about their advice? The the answer largely depends on what you're trusting the advice for. Is it medical advice? Trust none of it. Is it the advice going to cost you a lot of money? I'd ask an expert. The site here is purely informational-use-at-your-own-risk. No different than anything else on the internet. It'll get you started on your research so you can have some basis upon which to ask/talk to each other. Hey, even links to a community discord where you can talk to like minded individuals and maybe get some more clarity.

OJFord 3y ago
Eh in general sure. But if you're giving networking advice you definitely want to either opinionatedly not use TLS ('use case doesn't warrant it, so am against HTTPS all the things'), or have a valid cert.
- DanAtC 3y ago
  Real network engineers don't concern themselves with anything above layer 3.
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protocolture 3y ago

I had a client who had quite a decent network, but was always having issues. Upon investigating and subsequently asking him how he designed his last mile, he pointed us at the facebook wisp operators group. He was servicing high value customers with large dedicated speeds, based on a network design that kind of works for servicing trailer parks in rural USA. Mostly because the loudest voices in the space come from the jankiest moron wisp operators. The issue is that a lot of the advice is bad, the good advice costs money and is indistinguishable for the lay person from the bad advice, and its very easy to access terrible advice. This website isn't terrible, but it would serve to pay for the best advice possible before spending even more money on the wrong hardware in the wrong area.

ikiris 3y ago
This is the most accurate description of wisp information handoff I've ever seen.
arccy 2y ago
> the good advice costs money and is indistinguishable for the lay person from the bad advice the lay person also may not be able to identify who's advice is worth paying for
- protocolture 2y ago
  Yeah thats the issue. Well that and that most WISP operators have bought in to this idea that a non technical person can engineer a network for 1000 customers without support, so its not just that they dont know who to get advice from, they have been told they should be able to figure it out without help.