So I was taking care of a network wiring project in my house this evening -- upgrading the wiring to handle gigabit transfer speeds (important for copying large video files, which I've been known to do from time to time).
Anyway, I wired up some new jacks in my den (from which I blog) and at my network smart box (hidden in a closet). I connected my router to the line labeled "den" in the smart box, and plugged my computer into the wall jack...but nothing worked. I spent three hours making sure I'd correctly fitted the jacks to no avail.
Finally it occured to me that the builder might have gotten "bedroom 2" and "den" mixed up. So I wired up a jack for bedroom 2...and plogged the routrer into that, the wrong jack, at least as far as the labeling goes. (Edit: I know that "plogged the routrer" is a typo, but it's a fantastic typo, and I'm letting it stand. Thanks to piktor for mocking it!)
Wouldn't you know it, everything worked perfectly. So the builder wrongly labeled the lines, and to compensate for that, I had to plug my router into the "wrong" line. So I guess that proves that in certain situations, two wrongs do make a right.
But not often.
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