Got a call from a customer: "Nothing is working, but only on one desk in the office."
I poked around a bit, and sure enough, 2 PCs, 2 phones and 1 printer were offline.
Drove out to the customer, looked at the desk and talked to the manager.
Turns out they had run out of ethernet ports after hiring more people.
So instead of calling us, to save money they had bought a desk switch on Amazon and plugged it into a random ethernet port.
Its power chord lay on the floor, unplugged.
When I plugged it in again, the office dog came running, jumped up, pulled it out again and tried to kill it.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 84 points 5 days ago

The adapter probably had a whine that drove it mad lmao

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago

Reminds me being called out to a customer "we have no internet these last two hours"

While he got me a coffee, i saw a switch without power. Pluged it in and when the coffee came internet access was restored.

He only said"yeah, i unpluged those two hours ago. No one ever told me our internet access runs over those"

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

power chord

I like e-flat minor with augmented drop D tuning, you?

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Whilst I do like legacy netgear switches, PoE switches are godsend