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It was not THAT bad, yet when I was hired at one company, they could not even reach the power switch behind all of the cabling. Yes, you heard that right - the cables were layered in some areas 5" deep IN FRONT of the racks.
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Other than the obvious fire hazard of no airflow around some servers, instead of a 1' or 3' cable (which would have been the perfect lengths) they put 15' or 25' cables (the manager said that is all they had to use) and looped them around. I seem to recall 350 smaller patch cables ordered and pulling out hundreds and hundreds of excess feet of cable to get it tidied up.
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for putting on the self-inflicted wounds of the person tasked with fixing this mess.
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mattkime wrote:
what is the salt for?
tequila - the wires didn't get like that with just salt.
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Unfortunately, I can't see the image (the site is "filtered" from here...), but I feel for you.
I had to rebuild/replace a network "central wiring location" here on campus... and it was pretty bad.
Piles of hundreds of extra feet of Cat5 (and some very old Cat3!) cable, some of it very fragile solid conductor, on top of the switches and router... with a 1/8" of accumulated dust and dirt on top.
Every time I unplugged a wire from the switch, I feared that I'd kill it... and I did several times before there was enough "down time" for me to just rip it all out and replace it with a rack, patch panel, and some fiber optic backbones.
I did a crappy job on the patch panel (I'd never used a patch panel until then...), but it's still WORLDS better than what I started with!
Another couple years, and I'm going to have to dig back into it, and upgrade things for Gigabit ethernet. Mostly just afford and replace the equipment in the rack.
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Must have been wired up by a chick - there's pink cable in there.
Stupid girls.
Jeff
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I helped someone move to a new building last week. He said the old server room looked pretty bad, but most of the tangle was in the rack behind the server.
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They're all color-coded. What's the problem?
