Month: February 2009

This is a followup to part 1 of the story, where I found that a hanging ftp transfer was caused by one of my network components not being able to transmit certain bit patterns. After getting on-site, I had the chance to move around cables to test each component in isolation. I was quite surprised… Continue reading Network troubles, part 2

As this story shows, the cause of a network problem is not always where youfirst suspect… So I just set up an ftp server on my home network for easy file transfer with some family members. Everything was working fine, except … occasionally, file transfers would just hang, for no apparent reasons. Logs did not… Continue reading Network troubles