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Tag: troubleshooting

Packet Fragment: Windows Blocking an SSID

November 27, 2019
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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

May 13, 2019
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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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A Bridge… or Switch Too Far

January 20, 2019
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| Blog, War Stories
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It’s six o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in, my phone starts ringing next to me, telling me the network is down. Or something like that. Last night I received a call from our helpdesk that one of our departments was complaining about a server not being reachable after a set of power […]

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Ben Story @ntwrk80

Ben Story @ntwrk80

Ben Story is a network engineer for a multi-state hospital system. 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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