April 17, 2007
You want it when?
Last Wednesday I had a workorder to scope out the basement of the Lomita Central Office as to it's suitability as an office for a couple of management types -- five telephone lines and three LAN connections. Next day I find out that they want to move in immediately, as in last Friday. I told them next Friday if they're lucky. Luckily, there was a conduit between the LAN hub and the basemenbt office:
From a cable reel at the LAN hub, an 80 t0 100 foot pull to an access point in the basement (A), push 10 feet to a J-Box (B), another 80-100 foot pull up to a J-Box (C) on the ceiling (high C.O. ceiling, tall ladder), 20 feet more to the final access point (D) which was just a few inches thru the wall to the office:
Wingo was unavailable, so I had to run the cable by my onesies. Snaked from A to the hub, pulled in enough cable to reach the office, and about 15 feet extra. An easy push to B. Snaked from C back to B, leaving enough of the snake out of it's reel so I could pull the cable while standing on the floor. One last snaking from D back to C, pull in the cable and push through the wall. My measured 15 feet extra ended up being 3 feet.
Added a Panduit quad surface mount jack on each end, patched the LAN into the first three jacks, test from the basement -- the LAN is up.
The telephone lines I cannot do until the switch people program the switch and the frame people run their jumper to the house cable. If they want to use their cell phones, they can move in tomorrow.