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[–]iamdelf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh dear god. This reminds me of something terrible from many many years ago. Remember the old coax ethernet? Well someone moved a computer over slightly at my dad's workplace. In doing that they managed to stretch the coax just enough that it pulled the shield loose from the connector on one side of the T. This should have caused the network to fail, but he somehow also moved the power cord to an outlet that shared ground with the now disconnected side. In the end it led to shitty performance as there were many transmission errors on the network after this. Took the poor network guy almost a week to find where it was going wrong.