For three weeks, the campus internet had been dying. Every day at 2:00 PM, latency spiked to 2,000ms. Video lectures froze. The library’s VOIP phones clicked and stuttered. The provost was furious.
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Marcus sipped his cold coffee and stared at the network topology map on his screen. He was the midnight admin for Northern State University, a job that was usually 99% boredom and 1% sheer panic. Tonight, the panic was brewing. For three weeks, the campus internet had been dying