Everything was going digital. We had a “remote” office across the street that didn’t have internet access and it was really expensive to have lines installed.
I don’t remember what the device was called but it was some sort of satellite dish. Our network admin had ordered them and installed them on the roof tops of both buildings and we could provide access via this link.
It was pretty rad to me. But then the intermittent bugs started creeping in. The remote site used some windows 2000 dumb terminals and throughout the day all of them would disconnect at the same time - every day.
It was very random and they’d automatically reconnect after a few seconds to a few minutes - always.
Well, I was the new guy / intern grad. And so after a few weeks of debugging different things inside and moving the dishes around to make sure they were exactly pointed at each other my boss rolls into work with a beach chair and an umbrella.
I looked at him and asked if he was taking off early and hitting the beach and he goes “no you’re debugging”.
We set up the chair and umbrella on the roof. I sat up there with an walkie talkie and the remote site had the other one. My job was to sit until they radioed to see if anything was obvious interrupting the connection.
Then a semi truck stopped at the red light.