My frustrations with my network

[[DHT]Osiris]

After spending all day yesterday planning through a VM reconfiguration (hosts, SAN, 1G -> 10G conversion, new switches, etc), I come home to my internet not working. After spending two hours arguing with the TWC T1 support over the draconian definitions of 'Internal Network' vs 'External Network' (no really! The modem doesn't have an external IP address! I do not need to reset my Windows 10 IP stack!), and that they definitely positively do NOT have an outage in the area, she finally agrees to 'send someone out' today to look at the physical wiring. Internet automagically fixes itself two hours later. FML

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

? Why was this post moved from the sticky?

 

[sdifox]

why should it be sticky?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I thought the purpose of the sticky was random entertaining anecdotes, borne from the frustrations of network engineers. Is it not?

 

[sdifox]

I thought the purpose of the sticky was random entertaining anecdotes, borne from the frustrations of network engineers. Is it not?

You were supposed to put that in the thread. Or are you saying this post was in that thread?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

You were supposed to put that in the thread. Or are you saying this post was in that thread?

You are correct, sir. it was removed from the stickied thread and dropped into this one, with a (snarkly?) altered title.

 

[sdifox]

You are correct, sir. it was removed from the stickied thread and dropped into this one, with a (snarkly?) altered title.

Weird. Oh well, maybe that thread is just for work war story.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Weird. Oh well, maybe that thread is just for work war story.

I guess, still seemed kinda douchey. Was the sanctity of the sticky maintained by bumping the first post in a month?

 

[JackMDS]

The sticky is for Real General Frustration issues and Not for make believe (douchey) Anecdotes.

Out of courtesy to the OP I just moved it rather than delete it..

Next time you can post it in its "Natural" Environment OT.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Make believe anecdotes? Define?

 

[sdifox]

sounds more like a FWP to me

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

So are most of the posts in that thread, again, this was just meant to be another funny anecdote from a network engineer.

Agree to disagree I guess. Mods feel free to lock this as it's not going to go anywhere.

 

[Cee3PeeOh]

I had almost the exact thing happen this Christmas. My internet connection went from 25 mbs download to 0.21 mbs.
The more I screwed with it the worse it got. I'm glad I took print screens of the speed tests to show the tech when he arrived the next day. But of course before he arrived it healed itself. He did tweak it a bit and assisted getting my NVR up and running before he left.