[olug] High-tech wiring

Jason Troy jason.troy at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 14:18:49 UTC 2008


> A coworker and I were discussing the plausibility of this actually working
> if ya kept the twisted pairs twisted as close as possible to the wire nuts
> and stuff.... not including external interference.

I suspect the issue here was the electrical tape. :)


> I've seen my share of shredded cat5 and rats nests... but the worst
> intentional blunder I can think of is someone who used couplers (49 cent
> plastic housing thing to directly hook one cable to another) because the 300
> foot cable he had wasn't long enough...

Uhh *looks around* at my previous workplace that was common .... Tony?
Did you get all of those fixed yet?



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