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Stupidity=Collissions et.al....

this is one stupid action i have to learn and unlearn. i recently set up a semi sub network in the office so i got a hub and pcs..there were two connections comming out from one of the hub connected in our open bay rack ..one was crossover (i did this just last week) and the other was straigh through (i knew it was there) so out of excitement i plugged all cabels from the pc and the two cables to the hub turned on the hub and......boom problems start flowing in. first internet was down the proxy server hangs. other pcs connected to our novell server starts logging off ..and worst offices starts calling staing that they cannot connect ..so i asked our MIS head ( hes been with the school for almost 10 years now handling the whole system before we took over) and started analyzing the error.. one sign we saw was the utilization was running at 98% and no pcs are connected ..looking for clues we stared at the fiber optic hub handling the backbone..and bam the collision error indicator is blinking fast informing us there is a problem ..out of nowhere my thoughts brought me to the straight through cable connected to the hub..immediately unplugging it brought the chaos down..whew!!!!!!!!!!

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