Disconnectivity

That was a good waste of a few hours.

I drove to campus for the 12pm Data Communications and Networks lecture, but hit the becurs'd level crossing just as it was changing from amber to red, and chickened out of running the big metal barrier-flavoured gauntlet. (I would've made it if I'd just gone for it, as well.) So I sat there for fifteen minutes, then progressed to a campus where, thanks to yet another obscure conference type thing, parking was a rare and precious commodity.

All this made me late enough to decide to skip the lecture and "do something productive with the time instead". Equipped with trusty laptop, I headed up to Rootes bar where I thought I might perform much-needed updates to the BandSoc site. Wireless network connected, but no DHCP to speak of. Oh.

So I tried the library, a good ten minutes of busy pathways and staircases away. Same story. I plugged into one of the RJ45 wall sockets. No change.

Another walk, to that last bastion of working networks, DCS. Their "Experimental Laptop Network Connections" were indeed operational, but sadly were only allowing network access to DCS machines.

So I came home again, and here I am. Isn't it nice when things just work?

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