6 years ago I inherited a rat’s nest of network wiring. The previous guys who did it was the boss’s brother-in-law and the maintenance man. Everything worked (most of the time) so I will give them credit for that. But on the few occasions I needed to find/repair a wire it was a nightmare. On top of that, they origionally had 2x 24 port hubs (added a 3rd when we closed a brand office) for about 60 total cat 5 runs. Their theory was to just swap the cables for un-used lines whenever a computer or printer was moved. It’s not a terrible theory per-say… until you realize none of the cables were labeled (especially at BOTH ends) and some where wired in 568A on one end and B on the other. Just a basic headache all around.
So here are the BEFORE pictures:
So this weekend I came and did an upgrade. The biggest thing was tracing the wires to which office they went to and labeling them. We also went to 1 Gb switches and setup a patch panel correctly.
The AFTER pics:
I know it’s not much compared to some of the large data centers some of you might work with. But it’s been 6 years that I’ve been trying to convince my boss to do this. It took a loud fan to finally tip the scales. (The fan was making a loud ass noise one day, boss heard it, and agreed we should replace it… escalated from there) I did it all in a weekend by myself. I’m proud of my work so I figured I’d share with the other geeks here.
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