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Limp Gawd
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- Nov 16, 2006
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A friend of mine just moved into a new office a few days ago and hired someone else to run all the wires for a network. The friend was very strict on one point that he wanted every connection tested and this hired guy was oh i've done this a million times don't talk down to me ya da da... (I'm sure we have all meet the type)...
Anyways before I get back home for break I am talking with the friend and he is like would you be interested in a little side work when you get back to town. It turns out the guy did a good job pulling all the wires, but you know that "testing" part... Well he kinda forgot as every one of the connections run was wrong and none of them worked!
Oh, my friend thought ahead a little and pulled 5 lines to each point (10 points) so a total of 50 lines run throughout this place one for phone, computer, a printer, and a VOIP Camera (well printer/camera is what he told me, but it's likely just expansion plans for down the road)
Anyways so I spent the last two days in a little closet getting comfy with a boat load of cables and well here are a few pictures of said closet. Sorry I forgot to take the first few out of shock for the wire job so no pre SOS shots
Oh, sorry they are such poor quality, but I only had iPhone with me so it's what I got... better than nothing right?
So you can see the wall mount for some of the panels and most of the lines (organized by point - phone lines on left)
The first panel all punched and mounted... and my poor eye measuring skills showing...
The guy was nice enough to label the ends granted I didn't know if they were correct... I assumed (yea bad idea) and was glad they all went to the correct spot granted which was which on the other ends wasn't always correct.
The guy did have a chart of the CORRECT order for the wires (one of 5 given him)
His original ends all of which vary in order... You would think 1 of 50 lines would work! That and notice they are plugs vs the more "correct" way of patch panels... (I suggested panels and friend jumped at it vs hanging plugs)
My "velcro" to keep lines sorted and lines for the main station... This is a business so he needed that station working 5 days ago... Also added another panel bracket for phones. (day two)
It looks so purdy!
"Cable Raceway" Creative use, but it works..
Getting smarter on how to get the correct length for the connectors
The current state with phone ends run to the correct location for stamping Friday. Also hanging switch (Good placement considering the low budget)
A half way thought out managed cable order... Yea it's really bad by most standards, but it's 1000 times better than before and it works! (That and it's only my first install where I didn't have much say in the original placement of things)
The cable gear (Day two and 2nd router... comcast should be shot for such crappy gear)
The required lights shot
Anyways I am thankful that I got called in to bring this network to a semi usable status and that I get to use it for a mini lan party tomorrow
AMDbuilder
Anyways before I get back home for break I am talking with the friend and he is like would you be interested in a little side work when you get back to town. It turns out the guy did a good job pulling all the wires, but you know that "testing" part... Well he kinda forgot as every one of the connections run was wrong and none of them worked!
Oh, my friend thought ahead a little and pulled 5 lines to each point (10 points) so a total of 50 lines run throughout this place one for phone, computer, a printer, and a VOIP Camera (well printer/camera is what he told me, but it's likely just expansion plans for down the road)
Anyways so I spent the last two days in a little closet getting comfy with a boat load of cables and well here are a few pictures of said closet. Sorry I forgot to take the first few out of shock for the wire job so no pre SOS shots
Oh, sorry they are such poor quality, but I only had iPhone with me so it's what I got... better than nothing right?
So you can see the wall mount for some of the panels and most of the lines (organized by point - phone lines on left)
The first panel all punched and mounted... and my poor eye measuring skills showing...
The guy was nice enough to label the ends granted I didn't know if they were correct... I assumed (yea bad idea) and was glad they all went to the correct spot granted which was which on the other ends wasn't always correct.
The guy did have a chart of the CORRECT order for the wires (one of 5 given him)
His original ends all of which vary in order... You would think 1 of 50 lines would work! That and notice they are plugs vs the more "correct" way of patch panels... (I suggested panels and friend jumped at it vs hanging plugs)
My "velcro" to keep lines sorted and lines for the main station... This is a business so he needed that station working 5 days ago... Also added another panel bracket for phones. (day two)
It looks so purdy!
"Cable Raceway" Creative use, but it works..
Getting smarter on how to get the correct length for the connectors
The current state with phone ends run to the correct location for stamping Friday. Also hanging switch (Good placement considering the low budget)
A half way thought out managed cable order... Yea it's really bad by most standards, but it's 1000 times better than before and it works! (That and it's only my first install where I didn't have much say in the original placement of things)
The cable gear (Day two and 2nd router... comcast should be shot for such crappy gear)
The required lights shot
Anyways I am thankful that I got called in to bring this network to a semi usable status and that I get to use it for a mini lan party tomorrow
AMDbuilder