title: Loose Connection link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/loose-connection/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 11337 created: 2016/04/04 12:04:53 created_gmt: 2016/04/04 16:04:53 comment_status: closed post_name: loose-connection status: publish post_type: post

Loose Connection

Had a frustrating few this morning trying to figure out why I wasn’t connected to the company VPN. After some fumbling around discovered that the patch cord between my work laptop and the desktop switch had wiggled its way out of the RJ-45 connector on the laptop. Yeah, it’s an old cord and the male end of the connector doesn’t have the spring it did in youth. Something I learned the hard way in my second year as an IT consultant: Always check the physical layer first And people wonder why I hate hardware. Another item for the shopping list when I get around to the local computer store next.

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