When you have automated most of your job, but you still take Adderall every day.
That’s actually not that awful. Time consuming and you better not need to change the loom after it’s done, but that doesn’t become spaghetti that easily. At least not until someone adds few individual (and way too long) cables tangled to those.
It’s awful considering braided cable sleeve is orders of magnitude cheaper than IT labor.
I’d guess braiding is not that much more time consuming than fighting cables in a sleeve. Personally I’d use velcro-straps, but on our team there’s always too little time to actually make things look decent, so pretty much all is in various stages of spaghetti, depending on which cabinet you’re looking for.
If these are UTP, I demand a screenshot of
cat /proc/net/devand of some third party packet checking software that measures crosstalk and bit error. 😂unpopular opinion:
The effort of “tidying up” cables is never worth it.
You’ll always end up having to change something and your sophisticated cable management turns a 5 minute job into a 1 hour job, as you open zip ties and dig out cables.
Just use the correct cable length, plug that shit in in a sensible order, label both ends with numbered tape, and let it look messy.The first step is using correctly sized ethernet cables. Dont use a 12 ft cable for a 3 ft run. There shouldnt be more than a foot of slack in general. You dont need to “tidy” excess you dont have.
Then, for when you do need to tidy cables, use velcro ties, not zip ties. Ideally, you still label all the runs, especially the long ones. Seems a bit redundant for 3ft, but its still helpful.
Just use 1 foot cables and couplers to make any length you need!
At least put in the minimum effort of trying to follow the original path (assuming someone worth their salary actually was involved in the making of the site.).
Youd be surprised at the difference in mess from just plugging ‘a to b’ and ‘a to b via c’ no matter how many techs having been involved.
I’d obviously plan the initial setup, start with connecting ports close together via short cables, then put the longer connections on top, avoid unnecessary crossings.
And when switching out a cable, look for the most direct pathCable trays is the magic word. Any rack larger than 2u that see frequent patching need them no matter what accounting thinks.
Hook and loop, dawg.
First read this as “it’s braindead.”
Honestly that works as well
I actually had to teach someone in my uni course how to braid power cables for a induction motor. Do they not teach basic skills in preschool anymore?
They only teach girls how to braid in pre school then ostracise them out of becoming power techs.
We learned how to braid rope in scouts.
God forbid you have to swap out a cable or a port does on the switch. You will spend 20 min trying to figure out what cable goes where
Or you could mark the bad one, replace the whole set, then unbraid and toss the marked one later in a dumb meeting you have better things to do than attend or something :p
You still have trace each cable between the patch panel and the switch or thing could end up on the wrong subnet.
Uncommon
