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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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