Poll: Remote vs. on-site work

Nah I’m genuinley convinced I am working on a local box. Until I come to paint that is :frowning_face:

Like I say some people are having a different experience but even when I am going from Auckland to a box in Sydney I am getting great speeds with very little visible compression. The fact that my audio is in sync as well just blows my mind.

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I see what you’re saying Richard, I mean it’s all a question of how it’s set up, what it’s running over. But for me, it’s hard to give up my gin and tonic that I’m drinking out of a glass inches away from me as opposed to a gin and tonic that’s being delivered hundreds of miles to my mouth in a gigantic (but very, very fancy and sophisticated) straw.

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At the office I always felt the need to hide my gin and tonic in a mug. Now, at least I can drink it in a glass. Who cares about the ice cubes. They only water it down anyways :wink:

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I think the most important takeaway here is that Britt loves his gin and tonic.

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I can also recognize that is a lot of fallacy in this argument philosophically and that’s it’s not really equivalent to a straw and latency is incredibly complicated and so and so. I just… really like never having to worry about the intermediary issues of remoting in.

Alright @GPM and @PlaceYourBetts- touché! Hahaha!

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“It is a curious fact, and one to which no-one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85 percent of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonyx, or gee-N’N-T’N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand variations on this phonetic theme.
The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian ‘chinanto/mnigs’ which is ordinary water served just above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan 'tzjin-anthony-ks’ which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the only one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that their names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.”

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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Hahaha, ok, I can get on board with that! Cheers via teradici, you should feel the glass clink, but the pressure that I apply the clink maaay not come through on your side and your glass might just shatter (couldn’t help myself haha) :upside_down_face:

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Sounds like I need to get on that clear view action!. Doing long form episodic stuff I’m the last person to check it before QC and theres now way I would do that without being in front of a broadcast monitor.

I’ve only had one shot come back for a QC issue, and I’ve finaled over 1000 shots so far this season. We’re using RGS, and I have Fios 1G fibre into my home office. Receiving computer is hard wired to the router. I do run at 1/2 or 1/4 speed, and zoom in more than I might if I were in the office.

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I wish I had those speeds. I just live at the beach and I guess we have to do with crappy uploads.

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@GPM have you looked into a T1?

Samuel, I’ll look into anything. My results have been that I can get good downloads, and crappy uploads.

You probably need commercial service. It will be expensive, but our business is on the net now. No way around it.

I have offered to pay anything - the price isn’t an issue. There is simply no high speed service in the ghetto in Marina del Rey, California.

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That sucks. I’ve been lucky enough to have Fios since we moved here. Shit is revelatory.

I’ll take any G’s. I’ve found nothing viable.

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Call BelAir Internet or Fireline Broadband. They can put a dish on your roof and beam it to nearby Point of Presence. This is how we had internet prior to fiber.

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Been back in the office for 6 months, but prior to that WFH on my own machine, but I have dismal broadband. I guess that’s the price you pay for living in the country.

We’ve been using Towerstream fixed wireless at our office in MDR for at least 10 years, workable speed, really impressive reliability. I feel like I can count the outages on hand and I’d still have some fingers left over.

You just need a line of sight to I forget which building in on like the Venice/Santa Monica border.

Also just add my 2 cents to the question at hand, I am perfectly fine (or will be when it happens) driving into work for client sessions and such when needed but I am not doing that commute every day ever again.

I was going in every other week for a stretch last year just to do a sanity check on some HDR stuff on our Sony BVM and that was fine, but it was always just me and the sad little PA who’s been sitting by himself in the office now for two years.

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