Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior

Tue Aug 24 16:48:23 UTC 2004

Hello all, wondering if anyone has seen or experienced this same problem.
Currently deploying an OC12 on a campus network and am using Netgear media
converters. Set up the lines and had lit fiber to the building I needed it
to go to. On one end (main drop) I had light and tested the connectivity
which worked fine, on the other side, when I jacked up my Netgear, it
flickered. Now, when I went to swap out the fiber, I noticed a full
contact between the wires and the converter dropped it out. Meaning if I
had the wires not fully plugged it lit, if I plugged them entirely in, it
dropped.

So... I ran to the other building and tried to replicate it there, and it
did the same. I figured bad media converter so I swapped it out, next one
worked fine. However, I took the media converter and swapped the funky
acting one to yet another building and it worked fine. Anyone care to
offer a thought on this? Relevant to my media converter? Bad line,
"Murphy's Law", etc?

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