Reply to post: Medal of Honour

Ah, night shift in the 1970s. Ciggies, hipflasks, ADVENT... and fault-prone disk drives the size of washing machines

Lazlo Woodbine

Medal of Honour

One place I worked back in the early part of this century our already struggling network started to die completely every Friday afternoon.

The cause was initially a mystery, an few people bothered because it gave us an excuse to bring beer o'clock forwards a few hours, but after a few weeks one of the network guys decided to investigate.

The cause was our MD and his brother playing Medal of Honour across the network, being the MD and the MD's Brother all their traffic was prioritised, so lowly work related traffic had to fit in the gaps between battles.

Eventually we installed a better switch and stuck their PCs on their own VLAN...

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