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The original was posted on /r/talesfromtechsupport by /u/donnager__ on 2025-01-20 06:23:44+00:00.

The title probably gives it away.

So years back there was a network appliance operating over a slightly dodgy ethernet cable. Why the cable was not simply replaced is lost to time.

The person setting it up (not me!) noted that some of the traffic gets lost and decided to combat the problem by TYPING REALLY FAST.

In particular they set a long password which you would normally type with 2 hands, making sure they TYPE REALLY FAST.

Afterwards everyone got warned that you have to log in while typing REALLY FAST due to packet loss.

Sure enough, almost all attempts at typing the password at normal rate would fail, but even when typing really fast you would get in maybe 1/3rd of the time.

The real reason for auth trouble was that TYPING REALLY FAST resulted in swapping 2 letters and you had to make the same typo to get in.