Rewiring
Mar 27th, 2009 by Jay Howerter
When we moved into our new house in August of 2008, I was in a hurry to get my servers and network back up so I tried putting everything in one closet. This turned out to be a bad idea because I have been fighting heat problems ever since. Mike, a friend from work, offered me a Black Box wall mount rack and I decided that it was time to fix my wiring job. After about 6 hours of work, it is finally finished. Everything is running nice and cool now. I noticed that my Gigabit switch was hot to the touch when it was in the server closet (it happened to be sitting on my Fast Ethernet switch). Because the switch was so hot, my Windows Media Center was showing video artifacts when it was playing movies. Since I moved the switches, the artifacts are gone. Below are a couple of pictures of the finished product.
The patch panel in my closet
The rack in my crawl space
