looney2ns
IPCT Contributor
Based on my years of dealing with the telephone co and problems with my service at my business, I would not class telephone workers as cabling experts.I remember this one guy on our crew who was a former telephone co worker.....( showed me a thing or two) who, when I'd pull cable, (Like 4-5 boxes of Cat5e together) and get hung up, I'd stop to go check it out, and he'd get up the ladder and really rip on it. I mean like Jesus H Christ in a Chicken basket..."reef on it". I was like Dude theres no way all those pairs are gonna test out. "He's say you wanna bet lunch?"
I bought a couple lunches...
I lost track of the number of times I had to show the nitwits that would show up from MaBell, that it was their line to my demarc was at fault, not the premise wiring as they would claim. They didn't understand the concept of what the test jack was for on the demarc on the side of the building.