troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Port Forwards

20th April 2023

A customer with a Unifi Dream Machine is having trouble making an Inbound Port Forward. Here are some tests to narrow down the problem. Double NAT:look at the IP address…

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HowTo Test a Mail server BEFORE going live

25th March 2022

Use the Wormly website to test email deliver either before going live with at new mail service or if there are problems. https://www.wormly.com/test-smtp-server If you are setting up a non-profit…

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HP Printer prints every other page garbled

The default printer driver for HP M402 and maybe others come by default set to double sided printing, even if the printer is single sided only. UNCHECK double sided and…

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Ubiquiti Cloudkey in Rackmount displays “No Ethernet Connection”

8th February 2022

This problem is with the smaller, non-pro version of the Unifi CloudKey when mounted in a rackmount. The font display has the message “No Ethernet Connection” The rackmount has a…

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Outlook troubleshooting

11th May 2021

If Outlook doesn’t display the email body in the right pane or such close outlook WindowsKey+R to get a run box Outlook.exe /Safe If Outlook works in safe mode you…

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Cable Tester

Don’t plug a cable tester into a switch. Our team just spent the entire day diagnosing this The network symptoms were increased latency, ping times to wired devices should be…

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Windows 10 start menu search not working

16th March 2021

I scoured the internet for days trying to fix this, and it could be a combination of fixes. Start menu, Settings gear, updates, Advanced, Turn on updates for other Microsoft…

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Pervasive SQL troubleshooting

3rd March 2021

PRTG graph of sensor execution time If your Pervasive SQL server is doing this check that it can reach ALL of its DNS servers.

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Fortigate VPN troubleshooting

25th February 2020

If you are troubleshooting a Fortinet VPN here are a few tips. Network, Packet capture will allow you to capture data on a VPN tunnel interface. This can be used…

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