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Hi,

Readers digest - lightning struck building here in sunny FL on Monday. It fried an Ethernet switch, though wireless seemed to be ok at the time. Our local IT was in yesterday, traced the switch and replaced. Now able to connect via Ethernet AND wireless, but wireless is extremely slow talking to AC server. Our IT folks don't think it's an issue b/c internet is appropriately fast on the wireless client stations, but clearly there has to be something configured on the main sever that is dragging things down.

Have tried:
-turning off the firewall on the server
-checking for updates on the server-->none reported
-power cycling EVERYTHING

Any suggestions??

Thank you!!!
Matt

The storm may have fried some of the NIC cards at the computers. I lost 2 switches and 3 NIC cards some years ago in a lightning strike.

Are all of them slow, or just some. Was the switch replaced with a gigabit switch or a 10/100, which is slower.

NIC cards can send spurious information when damaged and may be confusing the network.

IT can trace connections with snooping software, or you can trace down by isolating computers and see the effect on the network