Today my partner and I finally finished the big cabling job we've been working on for one of my clients every weekend this month. The only things left to do today was punch down a couple jacks near a new piece of equipment, install a switch and a couple of hubs, and patch all the connections through from the patch panel to the core switch. I also installed their email and file server in their new locations.
Afterwards we grabbed lunch and he installed a new doorbell for me and fixed a fouled up flourescent light in my kitchen. Doing anything with AC power gives me the heebie-jeebies. It's good to be friends with an electrician. :-)
Geoff Timm here,
ReplyDeleteAny good lessons learned on the cabling job?
Geoff
Who likes others to jump start his learning curve.
Lessons:
ReplyDelete1. The job will take longer than expected. :-)
2. If you need to do cross-connects for phone lines on a punchdown block, have a box of bridge clips, which are much faster to use than short sections of conductor snipped from piece of CAT5 and punched down.
3. The usefulness of a Fluke Networks cable tester was reconfirmed. We used one to certify all the patch cords I made, as well as each Ethernet run from the patch panel to the wall jack.