Patch it?
We recently moved to another office just across the hall. Today a KPN guy came in to remove our telephone and internet connections and move them to our neighbours. We asked him if he could move our connection too be he refused.
Then he handed us a note with two numbers and showed us the KPN patch room and said:
“Patch it yourself…”
This is very weird. We are likely to break a few circuits and bring down the whole KPN network.
Cool.
UPDATE: we can’t get it to work. Half the building must be without internet now. If someone knows how these patch things work please help us.
UPDATE 2: Our phones are down too as a result of this. If you want to reach us use email.
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How weird !!
who is the owner of this patch-cabinet? KPN? very weird that they allowed you guys to it then…
Anyway, there’s not that much to understand. There are numbers in your office which correspond with numbers on the patchpanels. Then there should be switches etcetera which have the internet-feed… Now take a patchcable and connect one port (of which you know has internet, try with a laptop for instance) of the switch to a port on the patchpanel (with a number you’ve got in your office).
That should be it… otherwise make a mess of it all and you’ll be sure someone of KPN shows up! ^_^
As stated by Mark, and looking at the picture that should be the only way to work. Although it might be that the switch you connect to, the (still) open ports are disabled. Then you have to log on to the swith with a password and username (which you might not have) to enable it.
But looking at the picture it looks more like this is a normal cabinet and not one of KPN, and you have to get in touch with the building maintainer for this one in case you can’t find it.
Good luck!
Just flip random switches and kick stuff. That’s how I fix things in my building. Works every time… (mostly)
Unbelievable. These guys from KPN are hilarious!
>Then he handed us a note with two numbers and showed us the KPN patch room
BTW, didn’t he mean to tell you guys that the cable from the first number had to be put into the port badged with the second number? ^_^
How bad did you guys make a mess of it?
@mark: He didn’t explain much. Just said “Patch this, its easy”. I don’t we ruined much but they ARE going to send a repairman tomorrow instead of in two weeks… ;-)