09-23-2009, 04:08 PM
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.
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.