Well, this one time, at band-camp .... Blake Pfankuch wrote:

One of my clients has their 34U cabinet under the stairs of the main entrance to the facility. Mind you wood plank stairs, trafficked by hundreds if not thousands of people a day. Over the top of the cabinet hangs an extra long shower curtain, at an angle so that all water or mud that falls through the wood slats actually drips down the "shower curtain" and then runs down the drain, 3 feet away, to the sewer system.

-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Warren Kumari Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:56 AM To: Leigh Porter Cc: Patrick Muldoon; Vinny Abello; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where it went?

One of the places where I worked had a bunch of networking gear and around 12x1U servers all squeezed into a shower stall.... There was a cardboard sign hanging from the faucet saying "WARNING!!! Do not turn on"

W

On Sep 10, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Leigh Porter wrote:

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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:

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On Sep 10, 2007, at 12:34 AM, Vinny Abello wrote:

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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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