Boy do I feel stupid! I am not posting this on Facebook or Twitter, but I am sharing this with my TR family because you’ll all have a good laugh.
My CEO’s laptop suddenly wouldn’t connect to the network, either at home or work. After trying several different things and doing alot of online research, I finally resorted to a System Restore to a point a few days before the breakdown.
The thing is, I had moved the laptop to another station – 1. to check that the it wasn’t the jack or cable that had gone bad, 2. it was closer to my desk so I could do online research while working on the laptop too.
The system restore did seem to bring things back to normal on his laptop, but it still wasn’t able to connect to the network. It kept attempting but not getting anything.
Today, my co-worker alerted me that she attempted to use the phone at that station but it was dead. This immediately raised a red flag in my brain. I checked behind the desk and followed the phone cord. Sure enough – I had unplugged the PHONE and had been trying to connect the laptop through the PHONE JACK instead of the Network jack!
I really gotta label the jacks alot clearer – and somewhere where I can SEE the labels!
Tink :p