I was once diagnosing a network problem on a thinnet Ethernet network. I
disconnected the network from the (Novell) file server and got quite a
jolt. I measured a 48v potential between the shielding on the cable and
the file server chassis. The culprit was cable coiled and lying on top of
a fluorescent fixture.
The hardest case to diagnose of problems of this nature I have ever come
across was a network that
would corrupt things, randomly from all the computers "in the back" while
those "in the front"
never had troubles. Somewhere or Somewhen, Someone had run the CAT 5 cable
over a flourescent
light fixture! Moved the cable and solved the problems. BTW, it was not I
that solved the problem.
I'm not that smart.
Emmitt Dove
Manager, DairyPak Business Systems
Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc.
40 Lindeman Drive
Trumbull, CT 06611
(203) 673-2231
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