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That’s sickening.
I’ve seen a /lot/ worse wiring jobs for networks.
Anyone who has worked in the IT industry wouldn’t even bat an eye at that. As far as neatness and effectiveness go, I’ve personally seen MUCH worse.
My only concern would be that masking tape doesn’t last very long before the glue dries up.
Looks like my kids dorm
Looks like my boiler room, but I hang the cables on loops & use zip ties instead of tape. At my work, we have this cage-like thing that runs along the ceiling that you can put any # of cables on.
Anyone who worked in the IT industry would instantly notice those loops
Wow! Nice set-up! Don’t argue with them – guys are professionals! lol
lol, i love the tape, i usually use zip ties as well but the fact that someone used tape is simply hilarious.
Could be better if he used duct tape.
Please – everyone knows that if you leave slack in the line you can’t hear the sound coming through the can at the other end.
Most of it is not even masking tape. It’s the much more expensive, much less sticky Blue Painter’s Tape, designed even more carefully to not stick permanently to painted walls.
Where’s the redundancy lol and, (serious question) I thought looking Cat 5e cables like that diminished the quality, no?
Must be a college dorm – they only allow you to use painter’s tape on the walls.
My basement looks worse than that though. The cable guy abandoned the coax that came with the house and ran all new coax. Which is also now abandoned now that we have U-verse, and of course the U-verse installer ran all his own Cat-5 instead of utilizing all the Cat-5 that I ran myself for the home network.
So now there are effectively two sets of Cat-5 going everywhere even though internet/TV all eventually go back to the same u-verse router, and 2 sets of abandoned coax. :sigh:
indeed
At least they didn’t drop a filing cabinet in front of it.
@Colin: Yes it would. But if he’d used speed tape, on the other hand, then it would have acted as a EMI shield, enabling greater speeds to be attained…
Talk about not a screw in a wall!
Hey, we’re rocking the cat6 cables. Only the best for my dining room wall and our software startup!
omg thats like my office
i got 20 pcs all linked via gigabit lan cat6
although not at high level
i’ve duct taped to skirting
why is there some random bits of tape that arnt even attached to wires?
I like how, off to the left, the wires are taped in neat rows, before branching off to their respective rat’s nests! I like this, yes I do.
@wind
Future implementation
i dont think that is much of a ‘rats nest’ of cables at all! even with the loops, its still fairly neat.
not a bad job, i’d say.
strange how they used a combination of blue painters tape for the cables, but then standard masking tape to hold the box to the wall.
I like it, looks good, my computer room with three computers and all the pheriperals is a real wiring kludge. And part of them had to run next to a stinky litter box. And all of the Cat6 cable is color coded too.
The wires in this one are taped off so no one will trip over them, in orderly rows going in, and orderly rows coming out. This is a fail?
Man. You guys haven’t seen the inside of.. oh, say, a telemarketing place…
(Not that I was EVER in one of THOSE.)
WRONG!! This is a LAN Hub/Switch which is connected to and old dial-up modem in the right room (look 4 the white cable coming from the door!!)
btw.. I said dial-up and not 56-k modem as there are still old experimental modems from the milnet or earlier (check the vid on youtube with the guy loading the wikipedia main page via an old IBM modem from 1964 / 65 !!!)
This is the worst they could find to put on here?
Not bad, actually. It keeps tension off the cables, and more importantly the connectors.
@JH: Shielding is useful for improving signal quality in an electromagnetically-noisy environment, but this doesn’t look like one. It also increases the cable’s capacitance, which decreases maximum cable length, increases power usage, and *decreases* signal speed. Costs more, too. In general, shielded cable shouldn’t be used without justification.
@ursen
But did the Cat6 cable actually use the litter box?
If you think that is bad, take a look at these things:
http://izismile.com/2009/08/03/compilation_of_funny_pics_for_the_sysadmin_day_126_pics.html
Disclaimer: Networking geek here.
When I was in college, I moved into a house with three other guys, and they had cat5 run all over the place. Weeks later I discovered their modem had bult in wireless and NONE of them knew it! (and they all had wireless enabled notebooks!)
This looks very pro to me. The wire routes are all visible. All connections are stress relieved. The tape type was selected for easy removal. The box has more weight and thus requires a tape with more stick. There are service loops in most of the cables. This looks like a temporary installation that will do minimal damage to the house. When the system is removed I bet there will be almost no indication that it was ever there. This was done by the type of guy that you want to do your wiring. I say excellent work.
witness, the IT professionals of tomorrow . . .
is that what Edison thought of Tesla’s ideas?