What could possible be wrong with a network installed and dare I say "operated" by a lawyer? Of course, the answer is just about anything. When we saw the house, I was stunned to see the "wiring closet," a section of unfinished space where a spaghetti mess of UTP and COAX were tied, sometimes literally in knots with some terminated into female connectors, some with male connectors, some stripped back several inches, untrimmed ends pocking into other cables, and some undecipherable labels on a few cables.
My first step was to try to segregate the UTP (network and phone) cables from the multitude of COAX and trace them. As each was traced it was labeled with a neat color coded tape label so I could skip the tracing next time. When that was said and done, I was down to only about a dozen mystery cables. The network cables were plugged into a switch that I literally zip tied on top of the box. The coax cables went into a couple of bundles.
The result, definitely not pretty was an organized mess, something I could work to improve and I thought something that might help performance of the network.
Network Performance Failure
It was not long till my son tried to use his computer to play WoW and immediately discovered that the network was horrible, with disconnects and latency galore. He
fixed it by going to a wireless connection, bypassing some of the mess that is our wired network and let me know about it. I thought I was retired, but I seem to have inherited another broken network.
