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The 'reset your router' advice that cost me a whole workday
My IT buddy Dave swore that rebooting the router would fix our office wi-fi dropouts, so I did it Tuesday morning and lost VPN access for 6 hours because the firmware update it pulled killed our firewall rules. Turns out the real issue was a dying switch on the other side of the building that Dave never checked. Has anyone else had a quick fix turn into a bigger mess than the original problem?
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nancy_king2913d agoMost Upvoted
Did you check if the switch was throwing errors before Dave did the reset, or did the router just become the easy scapegoat? In my experience, a fresh reboot can mask deeper problems for a while, but it rarely causes them unless the firmware update itself is the culprit. Take this with a grain of salt, but blaming the quick fix might be skipping over the real lesson about double-checking the whole network chain.
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