I'm flouncing real life today over the unfair working conditions
i.e. they expect me to do my job and its the first week of term. Freshers week AKA bunch of entitled pricks week.

Highlights so far - 1. Daddy phones to complain his precious one hasn't got wireless in her room. We told him that the rooms in the cheaper halls don't have wireless but an ethernet cable is provided. He threatens to pay someone to install wireless in her room and send us the bill because his precious one shouldn't have to use a cable. 2. Student requests his money back on his freshers wristband because he didn't realise that it only got you free entry to all the event before 10pm and I quote "Going out before 10pm is not something I am preconditioned too"

I fucking hate students
( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:20, 3 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

Easy answer to 1
Buy wireless router herself, connect to laptop wired once only, log into admin menu, disable DHCP, log out, disconnect laptop, plug router into Ethernet cable, use wireless. Simples.

May have left step 1 "don't be a cunt" out.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:25, Reply)

Nope
We don't allow it. Someone tried that one last year. They paid for their internet, attached a router and then sold it cut price to the other people in his block. We noticed there was an unauthorised bit of kit attached within hours and disconnected it. These days we have device registration before they can use any kit on the network.
( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:33, Reply)

Isn't there something in the International Bill of Human Rights ensuring that all children have the right to a wireless internet connection?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:35, Reply)

Yeh but we got Russia to veto it or something

( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:36, Reply)

What a nice totalitarian university you work for
Why the fuck can't someone have wireless if they want it?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:55, Reply)

Cos its not free
see above
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:11, Reply)

Just give each room a phone line, they can sort the rest

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:23, Reply)

Each room has a phone but they are all Cisco VOIP phones
They plug the computer in to the back of the phone.
( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:25, Reply)

I think you have over complicated things
give them all a box room with a mattress on the floor, a chair in the corner and a bin. Give them one power socket and a phone line. They can sort the rest.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:29, Reply)

Also a lot of wireless routers have switches built in to them
And if you plugged an unconfigured switch in to a routed network it can cause all sorts of issues.
( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:24, Reply)

shut up and fix it IT monkey

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:25, Reply)

I'm no longer an IT monkey
I don't do the fixing anymore.
( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:27, Reply)

Indeed
which is why you turn DHCP off before connecting it to the network, or it will proper bugger things up.

You might get away with a proper wireless access point (extender) rather than a router, though, bit more expensive but more designed for the job.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 9:39, Reply)

Which is why we don't allow students with no knowledge of DHCP to connect their shit to the network.

( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 10:10, Reply)

Christ alive, I hate people.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:25, Reply)

Tell him that you are preconditioned to punch him in the face repeatedly before pouring petrol all over him & setting him on fire.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:27, Reply)

To be honest the first one annoyed me the most because she got daddy to phone me.
She's a fucking adult for fucks sake.
( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:34, Reply)

One of my staff has his mother call in sick for him when he has 'migraines'. He's two weeks older than me.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:35, Reply)

68?

( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:36, Reply)

I LIKED THIS JOKE IN 68 BUT IT WAS THE WHOLE PACKAGE

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:37, Reply)

Weirdly, playing darts seems to bring these 'attacks' on.
Everytime he has a match, he gets these debilitating migraines the next day. It's most peculiar.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:37, Reply)

How odd

( Peej, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:40, Reply)

One of those 'medical mysteries' you read about.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Sep 2013, 8:40, Reply)