leigh.porter at ukbroadband
Sep 10, 2007, 8:33 AM
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Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where it went?
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Well, this one time, at band-camp ....
Blake Pfankuch wrote:
> One of my clients has their 34U cabinet under the stairs of the main
> entrance to the facility. Mind you wood plank stairs, trafficked by
> hundreds if not thousands of people a day. Over the top of the cabinet
> hangs an extra long shower curtain, at an angle so that all water or mud
> that falls through the wood slats actually drips down the "shower
> curtain" and then runs down the drain, 3 feet away, to the sewer system.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog[at]merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog[at]merit.edu] On Behalf Of
> Warren Kumari
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:56 AM
> To: Leigh Porter
> Cc: Patrick Muldoon; Vinny Abello; nanog[at]merit.edu
> Subject: Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know
> where it went?
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> One of the places where I worked had a bunch of networking gear and
> around 12x1U servers all squeezed into a shower stall.... There was a
> cardboard sign hanging from the faucet saying "WARNING!!! Do not turn
> on"
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> W
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> On Sep 10, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Leigh Porter wrote:
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>> We used to have a POP under somebodys stairs in Bristol in the UK and
>> another POP in the loft of a friend of one of the employees. They sold
>> their house and the POP stayed there and the new owners knew nothing
>> about it, imagine their surprise when a telco engineer turned up
>> wanting
>> to fix a fibre fault ;-)
>>
>> --
>> Leigh
>>
>>
>> Patrick Muldoon wrote:
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>>> On Sep 10, 2007, at 12:34 AM, Vinny Abello wrote:
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>>>> One of the stranger things a field tech of ours encountered wasn't
>>>> necessarily bad wiring (although it's not great), but the fact that
>>>> the demarc was located next to the toilet in the bathroom.
>>>> Naturally,
>>>> the constant humidity caused bad corrosion problems and other issues
>>>> with their telco services. :) So as a general rule of thumb, avoid
>>>> putting your telco and/or network gear next to the crapper or the
>>>> services the equipment is meant to provide might also stink
>>>>
>>> I know of one ISP that had their local POP in a small rural town,
>>> the
>>> bathroom of a local store, sitting on a shelf in rather close
>>> proximity to the sink (Sorry don't have pictures). So Router, modem
>>> bank and a couple T1's. The kicker was they had it all plugged into
>>> an extension cord that ran to another part of a back room. More
>>> than
>>> 1 time we (as the local telco) had to go out there cause they where
>>> certain it was a problem with the Ts, When in fact someone had either
>>> tripped over the power cord or unplugged it somehow.
>>>
>>> -Patrick
>>>
>>> --
>>> Patrick Muldoon
>>> Network/Software Engineer
>>> INOC (http://www.inoc.net)
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