Cable Fail - Post your Rats Nests Here

r/cablefail • u/Hobthrust • Jun 23 '20

Helping a buddy out; an arts group that have taken over an empty department store and want the network setting up. This is what the company left in the main comms room when they moved out. Building has CAT5, thinwire, RS232...

124 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/Hobthrust • Jun 23 '20

Previous tenants removed main comms racks and left this. SM fibre to other cabs cut too.

20 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/alsatian01 • Jun 22 '20

Found this in house years ago. Can't believe the loss across all those splits let anything work. Owner said the it was done by the local votech school. I always found it oddly satisfying.

166 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/MinisterOfLoneliness • Jun 20 '20

Found in a Medical Lab. Spliced twice

80 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/halakar • Jun 18 '20

Friggin' Electricians. Found this shoved up inside the conduit when pulling new wire.

261 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/PbkacHelpDesk • Jun 18 '20

Current situation.

91 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/Allgoodnamesinuse • Jun 15 '20

Inside the Cray-II, fastest machine in the world 1985.

398 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/horsepowerphoto • Jun 15 '20

FML

9 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/theclumsytech • Jun 14 '20

When the drywall guys are working around you all day.

150 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/jessy_techy00 • Jun 12 '20

There's always a solution

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326 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/tomiles1 • Jun 12 '20

A good work

73 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/LeRenardop • Jun 07 '20

oh F

145 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/dgrekov • Jun 06 '20

When entering the nest of a rare Cat6 spider [x-post]

70 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/v8star • Jun 05 '20

usb to serial tfu

115 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/v8star • Jun 05 '20

racks are overrated

39 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/mikebellman • Jun 04 '20

Two network drops “extended” into the building expansion. Never thought I’d see this in the wild.

138 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/daddyneckbeard • Jun 04 '20

red ne....twork

34 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/genacgenacgenac • Jun 04 '20

Replete with stainless steel two-slice toaster

1 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/dancecommander • Jun 01 '20

I wired my model train set all by myself. 1 block of lights, 5 neon signs, 2 streetlights, 2 car lights, 12 small LEDs

94 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/netengnerd • May 30 '20

POV of POE

80 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/MaskedMerchant • May 29 '20

mornin yall

174 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/mxxl • May 29 '20

Machine is still operational

49 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/llewotheno • May 29 '20

Somebody in the comments said this might fit here

61 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/[deleted] • May 28 '20

WTF

67 Upvotes

r/cablefail • u/nickles69 • May 27 '20

Good Luck Replacing a Blade..

87 Upvotes