[99215] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Mon Sep 10 06:41:08 2007
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:38:08 +0100
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Patrick Muldoon <doon@inoc.net>
CC: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <463BD36E-348B-4862-A9BE-DB493CAD9788@inoc.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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:
>
> On Sep 10, 2007, at 12:34 AM, 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
>
>
> 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
>
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> Patrick Muldoon
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