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Yesterday has to have been one of the worst days all year… The government has a high speed internet programme for schools, yesterday was our turn for our install, I said that it was not going to be as simple as they said it would be.

For a start the guy (from the ISP) that was sent didn’t know what a proxy server was… Nor the concept of a virtual machine. He unplugged the network cables from our primary ESX server without informing us and taking out almost all services, eventually leading to a forced shutdown. Just what I needed the day that the school reports were due in!

On the positive side though, check this out!

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Impressive network speeds:

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Yeah, mine is 223% slower…

I’d take a week’s outage for that…

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Does this guy still have a job? If he did that to my network, there would be a quick call to his boss and he would be out of a job, or at least never step foot in the school again. Totally inexcusable.

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lovely bandwidth. I feel your pain on the inconvenience. competence goes a very long ways in this world or lack thereof.

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holy…

nice!

also, stake the tech out to dry in the sun.

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He should have never been left alone anywhere near your gear. After your Q&A that should have been your first indicator.

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oh the envy…and that halfwit should be fired immediately.

so if I move there…the chances of getting that to my house arrrrreeeee…? =D

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If he was a government employee here in the US, in a lot of places, probably promoted or at least a raise.

I was in gov-co for a number of years and incompetence with lack of knowledge seemed to be the fast track to greener pastures in a lot of cases, maybe to promote them out of the way. Every now and then a good and competent person would rise too.

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yeah that sounds about right…

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I’m not sure I understand why he had to go anywhere near your servers.

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Schools are limited on space and don’t like to give IT any extra to do things properly… The main feed is usually in the server room. I know my school was that way.

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Saw this earlier today:

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Neither did he.

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The upload is usually much better than this, but this is the connection I have to deal with at work… :wink:

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I like the message at the bottom (Faster than 99% of US) . Rub it in!

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stahhhp…you are making me sad. I only have 4.5Mbps at work (T1 lines)

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I’ll be jealous of you now… :slight_smile: 17.33 download, 7.36 up … and I am told that speed is awesome :slight_smile: I get better speed at my home. :slight_smile:

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He moved them to unplug the cables (HP Proliant ML350 G6 x 2) and dropped them on the floor 3 times while I was in the room… I’d hate to think of what happened while I was out. The servers were running at the time.

The principal has sent an email of complaint to the ISP in regard to complete incompetence and lack of regard for our equipment.

We are supposed to get upto 500/500. All traffic is still going through MS TMG 2010… I’d suspect that it could be slowing it down.

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And I got excited when we moved to 200mb up and 200mb down…