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- This was a project I worked on this past summer here in LA. Had to stop the work before finishing but I'm still pleased with the outcome. Hope you all find it inspiring and thought provoking. I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback as well!
** STAY TUNED: I'm working on another video I'm trying to release later today with just an update on how things are going "behind the scenes". Hopefully I'll get it published soon! **
UPDATE: A lot of you have asked about the rack cabinet I used in this video. I got that rack from another job I was doing for a school. They were going to throw that cabinet away so I got permission to pick it up. There was a sticker on the side that said it was manufactured by Communications Supply Corporation with a part number of W24-SP867-EW but I've done a light search of that info and found nothing currently.
Here are at least a couple of similar cabinets I was able to find: www.aliexpress...
www.atlasied.c...
Finding just the right search word was tricky on this one! I think I got the best success with "tilt out low profile wall mount rackmount enclosure"
You can’t work in an unhealthy environment. You did the right thing.
Working in an unsafe way doesn't help you at all. Can always get another job.
I am a service tech and I always apreciate when I come into a nice and tidy network space. Too many times I get dispatched to a complete mess of a closet that it takes 2 hours just to sort out what actually is the active lines.
Too many contractractors that just dont have no one over seeing them in the passed that just did not care. Now with the camera phones their is just now starting to clean this kind of stuff up.
Great videos - you've turned engineering in small spaces into a work of art and craft, exactly how technology pioneers applied years of expertise to finish a job well.
Love the black mold in the open "doesn't bother" a restaurant. I wouldn't want to eat there. Good job nevertheless
Worked for a restaurant supply company. Delivered to a lot of place, I rarely if ever eat out since then. And a lot of the spaces that close, just reopen someplace else with a different menu.
A restaurant = sharkys.com. (A small bit of info leaked during the video when he pointed at their cups.) It looks like they had quite a few locations around LA. I hope it worked out for FN and I hope it wasn't all "perls before swine".
about the zip-ties vs Velcro debate. For me personally, anything that is final/long-term, behind a patch panel is zipties because it won't need to be taken apart/infrequently moved. Stuff in front of the patch panel that has the potential to move to different switches (say one room is on the regular network but then it needs to be moved to a different switch for a DMZ) should be velcro.
Well said! I would absolutely agree with that.
Zip ties are so cheap and simple to cut quickly, that if you have to cut some, so what. It's faster then using velcro and holds better. Cut, throw on a new one. No great loss.
I use cable ties because they cost the same as zip ties but can be reused.
Worth showing those who don't know (or know how), that Zip ties are 100% openable and reusable. All ya gotta do is keep an extra "tab" on hand to slide into the jaw to unlock the ratchet mechanism. Voilà! Sometimes a strong thumbnail even works.
@@VideoNOLA ive never in my career re-used a zip tie lol they only cost a few cents each, probably dont work as well the second time id imagine
Love the video, it’s so good to see someone take pride in their work. Thanks for sharing.
I just have to say that I really like watching your videos. I'm a networking admin major, and watching you work on some of this stuff makes it seem like fun and is informative. Thank you.
Doesn't look like the electrical panel next to the cabinet you installed has room to open anymore. Really enjoying your content.
10:08 I'm not even sure the electric panel can open with the new cabinet in the way.
If the studs are not where you expected, screw 2x3 horizontally (qty = 2x) on the wall in the studs, at the proper height for your cabinet. Then mount your cabinet in the 2x3 where you want your cabinet to be horizontally.
I love the "Do not move any cables" sign they have in the office :P
Thanks for sharing your wiring adventures I have learned a bunch...
So good to have you back! Always put your health and your wellbeing first. Unfortunately, some clients won't appreciate how much effort and thought you've put into cleaning up their mess until they get someone that does a horrible job and their POS tills are dropping their network connection and corrupting data. You're a master at the craft and your videos have helped so many of us. Don't forget that!
I like how you take pride in your work and keep everything honest. If only more people where like that.
Black mold in a restaurant, yummy. I'll be there next week!
I've seen a few of your vids. You got the right mentality. Thumbs-up there. But maybe it has been mentioned before in earlier vids or comments but zip tying network cables is not good. 22~24 AWG will change shape if zip tied. If you have a Fluke DTX or any other cable analyzers you will see a difference between zip tied and velcro. The wire resistance will change if zip tied. For a restaurant it's okay to zip ty the cables. But don't do that in a data centre. You might end-up replacing all the cables that can't pass certification due to deformation. There are good cable management solutions out there that works great and doesn't cost that much more then a bag of zip-ties. Just my 2 cents.
2 years later and your work is still finding new viewership. I have done similar work and have major respect for the detail of your workmanship. Excellent.
My thoughts, I'd put phones on network cables (supporting 4 lines) preparing then for a future upgrade to IP phones.
It's a bummer the USG and ISP interface aren't rack mountable. The last USG/cloud key I installed was mounted to a rack shelf with 10lb velcro.
Yes! a new fiberninja video. I really enjoy watching these. I want to work with something similar one day. I feel like I'm learning a lot from you, from the technical stuff, to the way you think and care about the result. Hope you keep sharing these.
Greetings from Norway :D
I enjoy your work. I have done this in the past in my years as a consultant and it was a blast. Working at night, you have the place for yourself and basically cleanup everything. You are right that many will not appreciate the sheer amount of work, but then again, you know you'll be back eventually and if anything, you get to show us neat stuff. Keep it up!
Winamp in the background - keepin' it real!
I just love watching these
Fabulous work. I really like that rack design. I haven’t seen a lot of those. I honor you for thinking of your safety over money - that has to be a hard choice, but that restaurant should be reported to the health department for those working conditions. Thanks for the inspiration and great work.
Love your videos. Always learn some new tricks when I watch them.
I love how you do things the right way. Enjoying and looking forward to any video of yours.
So happy you are back! Love to see another person who takes pride in their work!
In new to the channel and 2 years late. Good job on this one. Im working in datacenters, had work to plan bulding some of them. Im not sold on H frames thoses were from the old telco world.. I feel bad everytime I see thoses with cabling that could be touch and lack of good vertical PDU. I saw fee vids from
you I understand budget isn’t unlimited. For the wall rack, why not take a rack that can open like a door behind and front do you can access it more easy and nothing flip upside down. Like a « Middle Atlantic EWR Sectional Wall Mount Rack EWR-12-17 (Black) » or similar
I liked your 66 block! I repurposed one I did for a friend recently. Ran 1 CAT5 line to each one, two RJ11 plugs with 2 pairs each, four lines per phone over one run. I appreciate the time you spend to get the solution right. I’m trying to rationalize my church’s wiring closet at the moment so we can run some new Unify AC-Pros and I’m inspired by your perseverance to get started :)
I thought there was suppose to be 30" clearance from the electrical service panel?
x86cowboy I was thinking the same thing
NEC 110.26 (A) (1) says 36" from the front of the panel into the room at the width of the can and 6 1/2' from the floor up.
And 30" wide clear working area in front of the panel.
Wait until the right fire marshal come in and sees it.
My thoughts as well. I may be wrong as it has been years since I have been involved in construction but I think there is a minimum side clearance as well as in front of the electrical panel.
The legend has it that the black bag wall patch is still there to this day! Also, they failed their next electrical inspection.
LOL yeah, many did manage to point that out to me and in future jobs I was quite mindful of this code requirement. Thanks for keeping us on the right track!
Glad your are back! Keep up the great work.
Nice job.
Wonder if the local health/food authority know about the black mould.
Here in the UK they would be shut down untill it was rectified.
It feels good when you complete a good job.
Thanks for the video.
Safety first and always. You did the right thing. Cabinet looks really good. The fact they don't appreciate it should mean nothing. They don't know what they actually got with what you did. My wife wouldn't have either... Nice job though. Keep em coming !
You do nice work. I am not a cabling guy but I appreciate good work. The problem is nobody appreciates good work until "bad work" fails. The good news is you can go back and bill again for the bad work you could have fixed at the same time you did the partial install.
"I promise this time...Eh, we'll see." lmao
So glad you're back! Common people won't ever appreciate the work you do! But your viewers will!!!
Good to see you back again!
Im so happy to see you again :) Im in the process of enjoying and learning from you once again.
Good that it is your job because if somebody asked me to help with such a mess, I would most probably throw my hands in the air and give up.
Good job, love the dedication. Your health is more important and you made the right call by leaving when you found the mold. That being said, having worked in EMS and also having my hazmat I will say that Mold isn't as dangerous as the media portrays. The danger comes from inhalation or ingestion. So as long as the material is not disturbed you are safe. Obviously you will disturb it when you cut into the wall so stopping was the right call. I personally would have reported them to the health department, especially after they didn't want to do remediation.
Nice desk setup you got there!!
Looked Great! I like the way you set their network up. very compact and neat, compared to the rats nest they had before.
Sad tho that the owner(s) cheeped out. the black mold situation will harm the employees, as well as the Manager, who would spend the most time in that office. You can expect to hear that the Manager, and maybe some of the employees have developed severe respiratory conditions from working in that environment.
17:20 - that’s slick as hell! I thought the first iteration was good, but wow, the second rev is really great…
I'm not in the biz but love your videos! Anybody thats takes that much pride in their work is inspiring. Keep up the great work!
Glad to have you back. I love your videos. It would be nice to see timelapse of your work.
ankurman20
Real-time or nothing. Never rush the good stuff.
I've thought about doing that but the situation just never lends itself to that type of shot. Most of the time, I'm bouncing from one aspect to another and don't think it would look good in a time lapse. Also, many of these jobs span several different visits. I am however working on making some videos about how I do cable dressings and some techniques I use. Maybe that will help!
FiberNinja I was think more like just setting up one camera pointed at the area you are working on and use that as timelapse
NOBODY appreciates quality cabling work. It's all the same to the people you do it for. They can stand back afterward and look at what a pretty change has been made, but they really don't appreciate the work. I used to be an electrician in LA, and I did neat panel work, and very professional diagrams for the inspectors. After you do that for a while, and the inspectors figure out who you are, they just sort of glance at your work and know you did it right without having to examine it in depth. I did a similar thing with a backboard in my laundry room which handled cable/network and telephone. Then at some point a new cable guy came in to install different cable, and asked who did the backboard. I said I did it, and he was impressed. It's called "craftsmanship". It's an art. Take pride in it.
I love your videos. Keep up the great work. Someone with OCD, your videos are like therapy for me. You should do product reviews. You unlike other you tubers have so much knowledge that i would purchase anything you recommend.
That's awesome to hear! I'm actually working on some product reviews currently! Stay tuned for them but I've almost never been satisfied with how many people do product reviews so hopefully my method will be well received...
I've been working on some special cabling projects lately that should hit your OCD sweet spot directly!
Thanks for the video here with a nice finished result. Hope things are well and will see another soon!
Your work is that of a Master Craftsman! A very rare trait these days. Many companies want quality work from 'pros' at beginners wages! Thank goodness there are those of us that will not let our 'professional edicate' be compromised by such people. Our work reflects our professionalism as well as the quality of service we give. The end result of any job, the aesthetic view, is all that the general public will ever see, they don't care about what the cost. Their first thought would be 'I will not use the guy who did this!' A very good message from your actions is 'Always perform your job professionally, or do not do it!'
To bad you do not do work in Fla i would love to just hold the camera and watch you work. I love all things to do with tech and routers and cable management and such always gets my ocd into full swing. I have worked as a electricians helper for a year and learned a lot about wiring up houses and commercial buildings. I also have been building computers for a long time as a hobby. Love the videos keep them coming!
Tip: You can easily neutralize black mold in seconds by spraying chlorine diluted in water. Usually this happens when water pipes, hot and cold, are behind the wall panel without proper insulation. Only be careful with any power outlets.
Dude, you're a beast. Really love that I found your videos. I'm slowly learning the A+ Certification to get started in the IT Career Field (upgrade from a Janitor, currently) as I've always loved IT. So, here's my question: How do you get paid? Do you work for a company and go do service jobs or do you do contract work and represent your own company? Thanks for your awesome videos!
9:11
The music need to off
at the same time you
closed the restaurant.
And
Do not move any cables
please thank you
"The music needs to Off" lolol
This is worthy of r/engrish
Once saw a "we're hiring" sign at a Wal-Mart Subway. The grammar was so bad I stopped to take a picture of it, and because of that, I can now reproduce it in its entirety:
We are hiring you
can apply on-line
at Subway.com or
grab a application
here
All spelling and punctuation (or lack thereof) are faithful to the original.
Lol
Btw the timestamp is nine eleven 😱
@@Phoen1x883 i don't think this is funny
Lots of time and effort was put into this. thanks for the walk through FiberNinja. Loved the remarks at the end.
Hi for everyone...I would propose to change the client for a central ip so the wiring was more verbose and you could remove the old wiring. And excelent work. 👍
I like how you weren't too proud to realize that the box should be installed as intended to get the most out of it.
Just an observation / suggestion: I have never seen that style of cabinet before and will be looking for them as they are a great idea. The only issue I see is setting it up vertically like you did. If you ever need to mount gear in anything other than standard 19" or 10" rack, mount it on its side. Just about all gear will passively/actively cross-flow air for cooling including the UniFi gear. The little USG's run bloody hot as they are passive cooled and I have seen a few cook. The switches will actually passively cool and fans stay off in most applications.
I would have turned the cabinet 90° and mounted the switches and gear on edge.
Looks like you lost some weight there. Hopefully you have your life back on track, nothing wrong with cable ties 1/10th of the cost of Velcro and a lot easier to install plus they don't collect dust and fluff
I most certainly did! I never weigh myself so I can't really say how much but when I look at some videos that are just a year ago I'm really shocked myself!
Zip ties better than velcro for installation in my view. I’ve been in cabinets where I’ve had to take the doors off and the sides, just to undo the Velcro buried in the cable run to trace and replace the cable.
Another great video FiberNinja! Our IT team at the brewery I work at regularly watches sections of your videos in our team meetings. We've learned a lot from the knowledge you're so kind to pass on. Much love from Kalamazoo, MI! Always excited to see a new video from you pop up in my feed.
I am so flattered to hear that! Thanks for your kind words!!
I can't remember the last video with this length that I've watched in it's entirety. Great job on the clean up. Also the bit with velcro vs tie wraps was very good. Subscribed.
Great to see you again FiberNinja ! Good work on that cabinet :)
Maybe add before and after picture to see direct comaprison. And what you have simplyfied and removed extra devices and such. Just a thought.
Our health is more important that the apreciation of people Who don't give a dam thing for the quality of your product! Good choice to cut down the business with that place! Your the Man!
I love your channel. Please continue to post videos.
Great Info for the Ones who getting in or new to this Work, the skills of thinking, planning, performing are Badly Needed in Electronics and Communications world Industry. I have been doing the same in the Industrial World for 29 Yrs, You always seem to find these rat nests when no cares to be a craftsman or no realistic time was planned to complete the work in a workmanship way. Keep up the Faith for Quality Work performed Smartly and Logically ..
Thanks so much!
Alright the videos are back! You look great with the beard 🧔
Great looking job! Is there a concern about access to that electrical panel on the left? Code typically requires 36 inches in front for access.
Yes. Finally a new fiber ninja video so happy to see your back. Hope you are doing well.
Excellent work! Man keep those videos coming. Thank you for doing what you do!
with that open with the cabinet in reverse, it could double as a small table
You're back! 🙌
awesome video, i learned so much by just watching.
Great to see u back in action!! 😀😀😀
So pumped to see a new video... hope you keep them coming! Awesome work on this project too!
Did good job rearranging that box
Been here many times myself. Good job!
Awesome to have you back! looking forward to see more videos!
Looks good, though I wouldn't completely abandon the extra runs. Just leave them in the box but not necessarily punch them down. Never know if it's going to be the same business in a few years.
It was hard to tell from the angle, but did you also make sure that the breaker box was accessible?
I sure did. Good catch!!
Dude I thought the same thing...😎
That is a clear electrical code violation.
@@FiberNinjaStudios Did you though? 36" clear in front for 18" from center on each side is code last I looked... Plus you partially blocked the screws to remove the cover. If I had to install a new breaker or otherwise get into the panel itself I'd be cursing whoever installed that cabinet the entire time. I'm not saying the restaurant had it right to begin with (sure looked like it wasn't originally) but you always talk about leaving it "right for the next guy" and then go and put your box right there... Not cool.
Nice job! Good to see you again. Greetings from Germany.
ahhh, I am super happy to see you back, finally new vid
Glad to see you back at it man. Would love to see more videos on your techniques on cabling and cable management!
I undetstand the patch cables and network stuff but that phone birds nest is going to give me nightmares.
One item you should look at is the National Electrical Code regarding the Electrical Service Panel clearance required, it is either 30 or 36 inch the sides and in front of it in commercial spaces.
Great point! I will definitely look that up
I've been enjoying your videos. One thing that would be great, if you could, at the end of the videos put up some "before and after" pictures and/or video. Just to better show the difference. I have been clicking back on earlier parts of the video and then back to the end manually.
Looks Great! now everything is neat and serviceable. it looked like a confusing mess before.
Great Job. keep the great N.W vids coming, and a big like from me:)
YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! New video is up!!!
I have to say that I missed you man and I am glad that you are back!
Of course your health (I saw your latest video, the one you posted after this one) comes first.
I can't wait to see more of your videos since I learn a great deal of things from you.
Again, good to have you back, and I hope that you get better soon.
Cheers from Greece!
~Valk.
Keep up the good work! I appreciate your vids and I do appreciate your work.
Gah, phone blocks make no sense to me lol. I kinda got second hand trained on 110 blocks but I have no clue how 66 blocks work. In this instance, are all four of the pots lines being fed into all four lines going to the phones? I take if you only wanted specific lines going out, you'd just remove those red jumpers for the lines you don't want to use?
So glad to finally get a new video!!!
Great to see you back!!! great work!!
Nice build. A bit different rack box would probably be better, but this one works nice too. The breaker box on the left looks to be blocked or have not enough space to be fully opened. No idea if there are some regulations about that.
Well that was a learning moment for me regarding the breaker box. While I did make sure it could be opened, I didn't realize there was a 30-inch clearance regulation about it. Many other viewers on this video were quick to educate me!
Nice to see you back, this was awesome.
One funny thing... "Removing Cisco comercial grade equipment" ... and placing Ubiquiti switch and USG :-D
I have six locations with Ubiquiti equipment (UDM, USG, UCK, USwitches, UAPs) including my own home and it's fine for home use. Maybe UAPs (killing old devices is not right pro-customer behivior), but routers are terrible (larger networks with more WANs and LANs are not configurable in GUI, IPv6 support is kind of basic, SNMP configuration is gone in new versions of Controller), DAC cables faulty, UDM keeps freezing, Controller SW and FW problems every few versions, Uswitches ??? (new versions has no passive PoE functionality anymore, so you replace broken one a have to solve many more problems). Design and touchscreens are fancy but little bit useless in rack in DC or basement.
Ubiquiti is no way enterprise solution.
Anyway I like your work.
You did a perfect job on this box. You packed their whole mess into it, and you even wanted to re-setup shelves, their receiver and stuff, so they could have it more user friendly and beautiful and not such a mess. This reminds me too much of myself. Anyways, just far away from such people who don't appreciate stuff. You're a good guy and money doesn't matter here. And yeah, that mold in a restaurant.. 🤮
Furring strips bro. Then you don't have to worry about stud location
Hey man I just wanted to let you know I love your videos, keep doing what your doing
Another video! Glad that you’re back
Glad to have you back!
Love my Ubiquiti gear... Just short of fool proof. Mold is definitely a no-go.
Inspirational work!
5:47 Superfluous equipment and unnecessary connections/junctions constitute network archaeology. What you see when you start the job is the result of adding layers to what probably started as a very simple (maybe proprietary) system, without paying much attention to removing things that were no longer needed or could have been simplified. You end up not only with the 3d picture of how the system works today (insofar as it does), but with the 4d picture of which lines & equipment were the original phone system, what the phone company added in the early days of DSL (Ethernet via 66-block is a dead giveaway), maybe how they started out with cameras and registers on the same network but ended up separating them, etc.. Fascinating stuff.