Wednesday 28 August 2013

The Big Desk Move - Pt 5: Networking

At this point, the desk pretty much works, although the equipment leaves a little to be desired. With the racks moved into place (details to come) the internet is working again, but not to the PCs.

The last desk had a wall box underneath with a string of 4 cables coming out going to a panel, oneby one they'd developed faults and no amount of debugging had found a solid cause other than "it's dodgy".

So with a new build comes some new sockets and cables.


After about 2 hours patching, wrapping and feeding, then finally zip tying along the length, the rack's umbilical cord is coming together.


Finally, patch the other end into the comms rack, and it's done.


This is a bit of a short one and the comms rack got another overhaul too which i'll post shortly to make up for the lack of much happening.

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