[99208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Mon Sep 10 01:16:40 2007
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:14:23 -0700
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <46E4C94E.4090604@tellurian.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Vinny Abello wrote:
> 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.
>
> http://users.tellurian.com/vabello/bathroom-demarc.jpg
On the plus side, they didn't have to go far for a ground.
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