Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: It may be the sun causing the problems

Author:Len MacDonell
Posted:11/4/1999; 12:40:19 PM
Topic:It may be the sun causing the problems
Msg #:12726 (In response to 12692)
Prev/Next:12725 / 12727

Back around 1992 I was called out troubleshoot a problem over at Atherton Technology on an TCP/IP, Appletalk "internet". It seemed that the accounting department printers would work fine until around 4:30 pm each day and then they would get sporadic and/or drop off the net.

After about 2 hours of checking routers and concentrators narrowed it down to a print server device. Every day when the sun came around the corner of the building it would heat the ethernet connector which would expand and pull apart the connection.




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