Do your users know the difference? It is annoying to have to stop and figure out which they are refering to.
“When are you going to get my internet?”
? He isn’t on the network, what the hell…oh, he means the LAN.
My users? Not really.
But you get used to it.
My company does a little bit of webhosting as a sideline really, just to show off our products in that environment.
But I often get calls from people complaining that their companies website (which they’re paying us a small fortune to host and maintain) is down.
After I release a large sigh, and tell them that our very expensive monitoring software and equipment is telling me that it’s up, (and after doing a quick check myself, just in case) we usually debug the problem to be on their own network…
A couple of times they’ve asked me when am I going to fix their network, they don’t seem to understand the concept that I don’t work for their company…
My job would be easier without customers, honestly… oh, wait…
No one I really work with knows anything about computers in general.
You should never use the term Network with them, once they heat net… they think about Internet explorer…
One lady keeps asking when I am going to upgrade her to Windows 2000… (she means office)
I gave her the answer that she already has it… and she was very confused because it still says 97…
gotta love it…