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Standards, Who Needs Standards!

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| Frustration, technology, troubleshooting
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Standards, we’re surrounded by them in our industry. Cabling standards like TIA586A/B tell us how to wire category 5/5e/6/6a (dang there’s another standard) for use in Ethernet (bam, another one). They help us ensure uniformity and compatibility in our industry. Without them, we would have balkanization and your Cisco network couldn’t talk to your Juniper […]

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Packet Fragment: Windows Blocking an SSID

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| Blog, Microsoft, Packet Fragment, troubleshooting, War Stories, windows
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Recently I got brought in on a ticket where the colleague couldn’t connect to our wireless network. Even manually adding the SSID to the computer was met with an error of “Your network administrator has blocked you from connecting to this network.” But why would Windows block an SSID? As I said in a previous […]

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How to Waste an Entire Day Troubleshooting One Phone… and Then Fix It in Less Than 5 Seconds

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| Blog, phones, recycled blog posts, troubleshooting

This article was originally posted on July 8th, 2013 to my old blog. I thought that it was still interesting and relevant enough to be recycled. The Symptoms So last week was a short one for me with the combination of the 4th of July holiday and some vacation time. Unfortunately, the last working day […]

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Ben Story @ntwrk80

Ben Story is a network security engineer for a solution provider. He has been working with networking since 1998, his Freshman year at Truman State University, when he worked for a small dial-up ISP managing their Shiva LanRover modem bank. His random bits and bytes can be found on his blog at https://packitforwarding.com or on Twitter @ntwrk80.

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