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my last thread got me thinking back to when i was a tech myself, working on cat-5...
sometimes the tech issues we got were just ... interesting.... the usual fight was between people claiming the computer was good, but the cat-5 and drops were bad...
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Fix your drop box!???
OT: Other tech(s)
ME: crazy girl who now knows cat-5 steals your soul......
OT: The drop is bad! Check your drop!
ME: It tests fine.
OT: No it's bad. I can log into this laptop in the shop, but not here in this office. See?
ME: Is this the cable you're using for this drop box?
OT: Yes.
ME: ... It's a phone cord....
Luckily the cat-5 "jumper" as I called it, was in one of the desks. The guy who owned the laptop was very embarrassed.
I don't remember what the other tech said.
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sparky the drop box (giggle)
OT: Got a call for you to fix a drop box.
ME: OK.
I go to the box and find the cable's kinda fallen into the box. So I pull it off, adjust it and put it back up... and push it back inside. Drat.
So I pull it off again and it makes a snap sound as usual. The guy who owned the office jumped sky high (H)... thinking I'd just taken a shock.
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Chasing the WiFi
I saw a wifi signal on my PDA but it dropped out. Everyone else said I must have just been picking up someone's laptop... But the signal had the branch's name on it.
A month or two later word comes along the grapevine. The guys in shop XXX got caught using an illegal WiFi router on the network. Apparently they forgot that the boss of the department had an office next to theirs. And one day he turned on his laptop and it started to automatically download its antivirus updates...
So... the router got confiscated and we were sent on a hunt for any more illegal WiFi routers.
Our boss related this one too us a couple of days later.
Boss: (peeking head into H's office) You don't have a wireless router in here do you?
H: I'll bite. What's a wireless router?
sometimes the tech issues we got were just ... interesting.... the usual fight was between people claiming the computer was good, but the cat-5 and drops were bad...
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Fix your drop box!???
OT: Other tech(s)
ME: crazy girl who now knows cat-5 steals your soul......
OT: The drop is bad! Check your drop!
ME: It tests fine.
OT: No it's bad. I can log into this laptop in the shop, but not here in this office. See?
ME: Is this the cable you're using for this drop box?
OT: Yes.
ME: ... It's a phone cord....
Luckily the cat-5 "jumper" as I called it, was in one of the desks. The guy who owned the laptop was very embarrassed.
I don't remember what the other tech said.------------------------------------------------
sparky the drop box (giggle)
OT: Got a call for you to fix a drop box.
ME: OK.
I go to the box and find the cable's kinda fallen into the box. So I pull it off, adjust it and put it back up... and push it back inside. Drat.
So I pull it off again and it makes a snap sound as usual. The guy who owned the office jumped sky high (H)... thinking I'd just taken a shock.
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Chasing the WiFi
I saw a wifi signal on my PDA but it dropped out. Everyone else said I must have just been picking up someone's laptop... But the signal had the branch's name on it.
A month or two later word comes along the grapevine. The guys in shop XXX got caught using an illegal WiFi router on the network. Apparently they forgot that the boss of the department had an office next to theirs. And one day he turned on his laptop and it started to automatically download its antivirus updates...
So... the router got confiscated and we were sent on a hunt for any more illegal WiFi routers.
Our boss related this one too us a couple of days later.
Boss: (peeking head into H's office) You don't have a wireless router in here do you?
H: I'll bite. What's a wireless router?