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Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where


From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:06:12 +0100

On Mon Sep 10  1:14 , Jay Hennigan  sent:



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.


"Our Internet service is in the toilet again!"

"Yes, that's where we installed it.."

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