The Cable Situation, Pt. 1

Rands HQ continues to experience unprecedented usage. We’re in week five of shelter in place and the home office is poppin’. As described earlier, I did an intense clean of the office two weekends back and am happy to report that the tidiness remains primarily because there’s a night 15-minute cleaning window where all things are returned to their proper place.

There is still a cable situation.

The horror.

The plan for the weekend is to address this cable situation and a lesser cable situation at the standing desk. You can see some of the long-abandoned attempts at cable entropy reduction in the prior photos including cable wraps and additional power strips, but I am certain there are other clever cable hacks I don’t know. I need help. There are modern power strips as well as UPS box en-route, but I am also interested in:

Suggestions for wrapping/grouping cables, but still leaving flexibility for stuff to change.

Power strip deployment recommendations.

What to do with base stations and routers? Where to put them and how to secure them?

Help, please.