A weird one.

[PotNoodleTech]

So picture the scene. Get in at 7.45 to find when I log on I get no network drives or internet or anything. Immediate response - EEK! But, I've had no emails from any of my various servers of softwares to say there is a problem, what gives?

 

After some skilled and highly logical troubleshooting, realise it is just the network link to my portacabin is down, everything else is fine.

 

After much more troubleshooting, this 30 metre cat5 link, disconnects if you try and run it at 1GB/s (i.e no flashy lights on switch) yet if you force the port to 100MB, reconnects and works fine, flashy lights and all!

 

How strange is that? I am guessing that a little mouse has chewed the cable somewhere but only through pairs 4,5,7,8 as they are the difference between 100 and 1000mb/s!

 

Mad. Still I also replaced the switch, and it's much quieter than the old one. Bonus!