Re:Headline? (Score 2, Interesting)

heh Seriously. When I was in college back in the early 90's, the company I interned for switched from thicknet ethernet over to twisted pair. (ahhhh the days of repairing a coax connector because the cleaning crew ran over the cable with the vacuum cleaner...) The rollout took several months, and my semester ended, so I went back to school for a semester and another intern (from a different school) came in. When I returned the following semester, I got my education in why it's important to label things clearly, accurately, and empirically. Some connections to the hub weren't labeled, and others were labeled uhhh interestingly. "Nice Lady in Accounting" was my favorite label. Anyway, to sort out where they each went to, we did just what the parent said. We unplugged the cable and waited for the phone. Took about 20 minutes. This was well before medium sized companies like this one had Internet connections, or it would have been much sooner.