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By: Da Sissop
Date: 7/8/98 6:18:23 PM
# Replies: 4
So ya may have noticed, the borad's been down since Monday morning. Here's the poop:
Historically, I've had a rather flaky internet connection. In fact, the *first* time I experienced a prolonged outage, I reported it to the apartment folks and they hot-potatoed me over to Phonoscope... and 3 days later when someone from Phonoscope finally came out, he went to the network hub, and simply unplugged and re-plugged my network cable... so that left a bad impression to begin with.
More often, the problem is somewhere between Neosoft and the apartment complex, i.e. I'm cut off from the outside world, but I can still communicate with other machines on the property. I'll report it to the cable company (now Optel), and they'll never return my calls, and then eventually things will just magically start working again.
Monday morning, Ralf hit the borad around 6:45-ish, I think. And then, as I was heading out the door for my first day on th' new job, I discovered my net connection was down, and I couldn't communicate with other machines locally. Oh well, sez I, these things happen, hopefully it'll be up again by the time I get home.
Well, it wasn't, and Monday night it was too late to contact anyone about it, and I was sleepy, so I blew it off til Tuesday. Tuesday I reported it to the cable company, and never heard anything back from 'em. Tuesday evening I reported it to the apartment folks, and mind you, I was pissed, right? So I explain my situation to the guy, and he says this is the first he's heard about it, and apparently I'm now supposed to report these kinds of problems to the apartment folks first and NOT the cable company any more.... He suggests it might be my hardware or software, since nobody else has reported any outage. Did I mention I was pissed? I insist my stuff is great, and explain that I've had a similar problem in the past which was essentially solved by jiggled the goddamned cable. He says he'll go fiddle with the hub.
The evening comes and goes and I've still got no net connection, so this morning I call the apartment folks again, really seriously pissed, mind you, because I'm absolutely certain that resetting the hub or jiggling the goddamned cable is all it's gonna take. Well, turns out the hub had been reset, and I was still down. So finally the apartment guy goes into my apartment, uninstalls and reinstalls my Win95 network drivers, and my connection is magically re-established.
To sum up: I've been down for three days thanks to the flakiness of Windows 95. It *wasn't* their problem after all. And they went above and beyond the call of duty to fix it.
So if I've ever referred to the Walden folks as "weasels", I'd like to humbly apologize and retract it.
Response #1
By: rorschach
Date: 7/8/98 9:27:30 PM
and how do we know this isn't the network weenie from the apartment just impersonating you?
Response #2
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 7/8/98 11:48:17 PM
Quoted stuff:
To sum up: I've been down for three days thanks to the flakiness of Windows 95. It *wasn't* their problem after all. And they went above and beyond the call of duty to fix it.
End Quoted Stuff.
Fang, remember that conversation we had about NT?
Response #3
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 7/15/98 2:02:03 AM
I think what they do is to fix the network, and then run around and reinstall the drivers so you think it's your problem.
Response #4
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/16/98 12:17:06 AM
It's what *I'd* do.