Reminds me of the story of a company whose internet connection would cut out intermittently and they couldn’t figure out why. Details hazy but the gist is here.
One day they have a tech come in to investigate the problem. He goes downstairs to where the router is, and everything’s fine.
Seemingly the moment he goes to leave, the connection goes off. Panic stations! He goes back to the router and the connection is re-establishing. OK. All tests fine. He goes away again. It goes off again. What. Tech aura is real!
Nope. Turns out that when he went downstairs, he used the stairs. When he was coming back up he was lazy and used the lift.
The lift motor had been causing enough EM noise to knock out the connection whenever it was used.
I’ve also read another of someone with connection issues with their server.
Server was unreachable, but every time someone went into the server room to debug the problem everything was working fine. After a while they noticed the switch with all the cables was plugged to the same outlet as the lightbulb, an outlet which was motion activated, so it only worked while someone was in there.
Reminds me of the story of a company whose internet connection would cut out intermittently and they couldn’t figure out why. Details hazy but the gist is here.
One day they have a tech come in to investigate the problem. He goes downstairs to where the router is, and everything’s fine.
Seemingly the moment he goes to leave, the connection goes off. Panic stations! He goes back to the router and the connection is re-establishing. OK. All tests fine. He goes away again. It goes off again. What. Tech aura is real!
Nope. Turns out that when he went downstairs, he used the stairs. When he was coming back up he was lazy and used the lift.
The lift motor had been causing enough EM noise to knock out the connection whenever it was used.
I’ve also read another of someone with connection issues with their server. Server was unreachable, but every time someone went into the server room to debug the problem everything was working fine. After a while they noticed the switch with all the cables was plugged to the same outlet as the lightbulb, an outlet which was motion activated, so it only worked while someone was in there.