What do I look like, a worker of miracles?

I like to believe I'm a fairly good programmer. I don't claim to be Wile E. Coyote, programming super-genius. But evidently some folks at work figure I can re-program external reality. (If I could, do you think I'd have left it in the condition it's now in?) This morning was "How is the ____ program coming along?" in regard to a problem that showed up yesterday afternoon during what should have been final testing.

After some digging and some more testing, I was able to demonstrate that the program actually did do exactly what was asked. Actually, two programs on two different pieces of hardware that had to talk to each other. Connected by cable, they worked just fine. Connected by a radio link, a necessity for this particular project, things got shaky. I have exactly zero control over the radios. But somehow I'm supposed to fix them in software on other hardware. I don't think so.

It turns out that not only were the radio-modems never properly configured, the guy who was setting them up didn't have the configuration tool for it. And that should have been a clue - we stopped using that brand of radio-modem a couple years ago. Gee, maybe there's a reason we switched brands? That was pointed this morning. Now, this afternoon, it finally dawns on the guy with radio-modems that maybe he should use the radio-modems that work.