- Joined
- Nov 21, 2020
It's an opportunity cost. Punching stuff down you pretty much have to do. But you can easily get all the colors and lengths of the rainbow and free up your staff to do actual work and unless you have a cable scanner then you never know if you decide to use that home-made 6A for 10G and it will keep working. At home about the only thing that gets crimped is 'Special' cables like an outdoor run to a camera where I can't feasibly mount a jack and run a short patch, and I don't keep a stock of outdoor stuff on-hand.I crimp all my cables and punch all my ports :^)
On the other stupid network stories. I worked at a place where the cables to the patch panels weren't properly supported so over time gravity would do its work and pull them out of the punch-downs. For that reason every server had a dual network connection, in the time before that was terribly common, and you didn't walk in the datacenter during business hours unless you really had to, and never behind the network racks where you might cause vibrations. And when you discovered one had failed we didn't bother to try and fix it, just take the red electrical tape and mark the front of the jack bad and re-cable the server to a spare port which we were running out of.
