Home Fibre Optic Network Cable Failure After Accidental Damage
By
alienchow
Properly proved. Has structure, has flavour, has a point.
Summary
A personal account of a home fibre optic network disaster where the author accidentally damaged their fibre cables while retrieving a bike pump from a bomb shelter. The cable sleeves crumbled like cookie crumbs, revealing internal components including metal wires and what appears to be a Kevlar sheath. The situation is particularly dire because the cables were permanently installed under cement flooring in PVC trunking, connecting the server room to various rooms including the home office with critical homelab equipment.
Key quotes
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Before I could even utter 'Oh fuck no', another section of the cable exploded outwards with thin metal wires jutting out from what seems to be like strands of white plastic threads, which I assume is the Kevlar sheath.
A main component of why I was in sheer horror was the fact that I had stupidly buried all of these cables under my cement flooring in PVC trunking from my shelter to all of the rooms in the flat.
If this cable fails, the connection from the server room to a specific room would be permanently severed.
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