That is why when I was still doing it, I had a truck full of test equipment including a network ip sniffer. I got tired of being blamed for a "bad connection" when it turned out the ip guy had assigned the same static ip to more than one device on the network.

You know the old adage..blame the phone guy when the Coke machine goes on the fritz.

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"Old phone guys never die, they just get locked in some closet with an old phone system and forgotten about"

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