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VFR750 here, and also love the thing! Anyone taken any advanced training? I did for a bit until the missus's work got in the way, but I'd highly recommend it; those white knucklle\wide eyed point-and-hope corners and overtakes are now done with a beaming grin in their place...

appreciate that, thanks Tony

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No, No, I'm not having that.... "useless" doesn't cut it at all, downright incompetence, now were getting there... and I wouldn't trust this lot if there was any sort of pandemic anyway.

They're power over ethernet (using 3Com injectors), and I didn't see a reset button on the laser unit although I was wobbling about on my rickety set of ladders and not really looking, I'll see what I can find again today when I bypass the cabling.

Thanks for the replies, chaps. These are 100Mbps Laserbit units. I've tried disconnecting the far end, and even tested the POE injector from the other building in the main building with the same results, I admit the symptoms seem to suggest a loopback issue, but i've isolated it to just that link so it must be either a faulty cable, or the laserbit unit itself. I'm going to try and bypass the cable next week during half term to see if this works, if not, it must be the laserbit unit itself causing the problem, would you agree? As for pupils sabotaging the system, it does raise an interesting point doesn't it, were a special school so while I have doubts about our kids doing this, you should never say never, as the saying goes!

Can anyone shed any light on this problem, possibly someone has had something similar happen? Last year I had a laser link installed to allow a seperate building access to the network. This was working fine until a couple of weeks ago when all the workstations on the network hung, and rebooting the server had no effect. Thinking it was a switch failure due to the hot weather (server and switches are kept in a small cupboard, gets v. hot in summer months, but at least I was finally able to persuade them to get me an air conditioner unit!) i was troubleshooting along those lines when I realised that all would work well until I plugged in the patch cable running (via a POE injector) to the laser unit, carrying out a continuous ping to the router from the server whilst plugging unit in and out confirmed it was dropping the connection when plugged in. As far as I am aware, the laser unit doesn't use an IP address as its just a medium to transfer data (as is a normal cat5 cable), I've even terminated the link into a different patch panel with no difference. Just can't understand why this would affect the link to the router, they're not even on the same segment of the network, anyone think of something else I can try?