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Cable Management To Defeat Clutter?
igny writes "I have just recently cleaned up my home office, reducing the clutter, but I could not come up with a neat solution to my cable problem. I believe my cable usage is even below average for a slashdotter, but still I have three computers with a bunch of ethernet and power cables, two cellphones, video and photo cables, with several proprietary chargers/AC adapters, printer, two NASes with a couple of external drives, phone, audio system, routers/switches, modem ... Everything requires cables of different kinds. I believe that AC adapters still draw some power even with no device hooked to it. So I organized my power cables by usage with several power strips to turn off adapters which I use less frequently. I am asking for advice from experienced slashdotters. How do you cope with your cable problem? Do you use dedicated tables, shelves, armoire for the cables? I am still looking for a neat, efficient, and safe (I have small kids) solution."
You will feel more comfortable if you don't see all those cables
One word: scissors. Took care of all my unsightly cable runs.
This guy's the limit!
But if you want it to look better velcro would look best
I do not recommend my current method of just having the wires running about, they seem to like getting in knots just sitting there somehow.
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
Give up, and embrace the Electric Spaghetti.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
There is an easy place to get all of the declutter stuff you need. It's called Home Depot.
I agree; my house is cluttered with items I got at Home Depot!
and safe (I have small kids) solution.
Well there goes all my ideas!
Quit vacuuming and pretty soon all your cables will be nicely concealed.
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Ah yes, I read really great reviews about that Belkin product on Amazon... hey... wait a second...
Split loom sucks, especially for ethernet wires, you still need to tie it down to make things look nice and it doesn't deal with extra wire very well. I only use it to protect against rodent chewing (I have pet rabbits) when I have a single wire running to the wall.
Yeah--they totally suck. That's why I installed Jeffries Tubes around my office. They make cable management a snap--you simply grab some futuristic plug-looking glowing thing and use it to patch around any outage. The down-side is that I often run into unknown mysterious organisms that cause frequent network outages and power problems. But one side benefit is that if you call in some sort of engineer to help solve the problem, you can often solve what appear to be complex personal and professional problems during the idle chit-chat while working in said Jeffries Tubes...
There's no place like
Ikea have a whole section of their catalogue dedicated to Cable Managment. I have one of their horizontal SIGNUM cable management thingos attached to the under side of my desk.
I didn't have such good luck with their stuff. I bought their vertical cabling system called SIGHUP
NO CARRIER
John
Anyone who suggests zipties should be shot, kicked, beaten, stabbed, sodomoized, then forced to install vista over ME on an Acer PC with a cyrix processor.
You can't tell what you're going to do with those cables in a year, or what cable will mysteriously go bad. Velcro straps > pretty much anything else.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
"I find it's the easiest to add or subtract cable to"
Subtract? Do you know where you are? Why would anyone want to subtract a cable?