I have my own IT firm and our main business is network and system administration.
One day we get a call from a callcenter. Apperantly their terminals are slow in getting the data from the server. Me and a collegue go over there to fix it. We get there and troubleshoot the network for a while and indeed, the network is blimey slow. We check the server, runs smooth (this is a 5000$ server anno 06/2006). Cables look okay will we get to the main switch setup, which looked like this:
Switch>hub>hub>hub>hub.
Anyway ALL the network equipment is X-brand junk. In the server room there is also a stange plastic smell. We open the switch and we fin the inner casing molten onto the pcb.
After we changed everything to proper 48 port Cisco switches the system ran fine.
Another good one is the time we got a call from a decent size warehouse. Their network was completely wireless and slow as hell, loss of connectivity, bad signal.
Turns out they had 30+ computers hooked up to a 20$ 11mbit accesspoint which was located in a closed in the.......basement.
Good times.
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I have my own IT firm and our main business is network and system administration. One day we get a call from a callcenter. Apperantly their terminals are slow in getting the data from the server. Me and a collegue go over there to fix it. We get there and troubleshoot the network for a while and indeed, the network is blimey slow. We check the server, runs smooth (this is a 5000$ server anno 06/2006). Cables look okay will we get to the main switch setup, which looked like this: Switch>hub>hub>hub>hub. Anyway ALL the network equipment is X-brand junk. In the server room there is also a stange plastic smell. We open the switch and we fin the inner casing molten onto the pcb. After we changed everything to proper 48 port Cisco switches the system ran fine. Another good one is the time we got a call from a decent size warehouse. Their network was completely wireless and slow as hell, loss of connectivity, bad signal. Turns out they had 30+ computers hooked up to a 20$ 11mbit accesspoint which was located in a closed in the.......basement. Good times.