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As lockdown leads me to look at more and more jobs I should have done years ago......I spotted the mess of networking/networked devices living in a forest of tangled cables on the two shelves of the TV stand.
4 port switch hanging off wifi mesh router hanging off broadband router. TV, TV digibox, XBox, alarm etc etc all plugged randomly into the first three.
On the power side everything plugged into two multi-gang extensions.
It’s a mess but outside of my first thought of sticking a few Lego baseplates down onto the glass shelves of the tv stand and fixing boxes/cables more neatly with bricks, I’m not sure on solutions.
What would Singletrack do/has Singletrack done?
What are you trying to achieve?
Usually one of the problems is all the excessively long cables - standard 1m power leads, HDMI cables, network cables etc.
All looks a lot tidier if the cables are only as long as they need to be - look on eBay and you can buy network and HDMI cables as long or short as you need for a few quid. Hack the plugs off the power cables and shorten them to the lengths they need to be, fitting new plugs if the old ones are moulded on.
You used to be able to buy extnesion leads with custom plugs that keep it all a lot smaller as well
I’m trying to make it tidy and organised and so that it’s easier to see what’s plugged in where.
For mains I've a 10-gang extension lead screwed to the underside of my desk with lots of cable ties to keep it mostly in place. Having it not on the floor helps a lot, I need to get another for behind the tele.
For networking I recommend a 8-port switch and treat that as the place where everything is plugged into, so the AP and modem are on their own.