[Server-devel] School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Those of us familiar with setting up school networks (server + switch + APs) in some of our deployments will be familiar with the occasional loss of hardware, due to surges in the low quality electrical supply or whatever, even when the system is protected by a cheap UPS which supposedly

Re: [Server-devel] School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:58:58PM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote: And the most surprising thing - we had not even turned on the network yet, pending some electrical work. Everything was connected up except one crucial link - the UPS was not plugged into mains power. So all of this damage happened

Re: [Server-devel] School networks and electrical equipment damage

2013-06-06 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 6, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: Those of us familiar with setting up school networks (server + switch + APs) in some of our deployments will be familiar with the occasional loss of hardware, due to surges in the low quality electrical supply or whatever, even when the system