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Eye of the beholder: Must-see photos

June 17, 2019

Our periodic round-up of the most mesmerizing structured cabling nightmare photos, as found posted to social media's Reddit.

Matt Vincent

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Welcome to our periodic round-up of the most mesmerizing structured cabling nightmare photos, as found posted to social media at Reddit's 'Cablefail' and 'Cablegore' sub-communities. This week, we find cabling chaos again being weirdly celebrated, in all its strange permutations...

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"Came across this 'beauty'..." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: kornaz

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"A literal spider web..." -- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: IDGAFMFROFL

"The firewall is WHERE?"-- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: IDGAFMFROFL

"Well, there’s your problem. They are terminated into RJ45 keystones not RJ11 or RJ14. My PoE phones did not approve of this. I also found the Cat 5e resting on top of the fluorescent lights. So I ran all new Cat 6."-- Reddit/Cablegore OP [orig. poster]: duhhhhhhh

"I just paint, the other guy does has the masking tape."-- Reddit/Cablefail OP [orig. poster]: Ostrantula

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About the Author

Matt Vincent | Senior Editor

Matt Vincent is a B2B technology journalist, editor and content producer with over 15 years of experience, specializing in the full range of media content production and management, as well as SEO and social media engagement best practices, for both Cabling Installation & Maintenance magazine and its website CablingInstall.com. He currently provides trade show, company, executive and field technology trend coverage for the ICT structured cabling, telecommunications networking, data center, IP physical security, and professional AV vertical market segments. Email: [email protected]