Is this an Ethernet port? Or something that has only given a young man with poor download speed false hope?
I live in New Zealand and this socket thing is real old lol
Is this an Ethernet port? Or something that has only given a young man with poor download speed false hope?
I live in New Zealand and this socket thing is real old lol
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Phone jack
Looks like a standard ~~RJ11~~ “BT” socket telephone point. Not sure why it’s got 6 pins though.
Take the wall panel off and look, but that does not look like a standard Ethernet Jack.
Worst case: pull good cable using the existing stuff and punch down with a 10$ tool.
I feel so old right now.
Phones used to plug in the wall, this is how you used to do that in the before times.
Fuck I’m old.
6 contacts seems like an RJ12, RJ11 has 4 contacts RJ45 8
This could be some kind of intercom or centralized phone system. Square screws are typical for something you don’t want anyone to open.
If the cable actually traces near the modem , its still a valid option to use it as a guideline to retrace the cable with an ethernet (or two while you’re at it).
something like this is my go to for tracing cables, cheap and effective. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Finder-Generator-Tracer-Tracker-Network/dp/B07ZH8SLBL
How to tell people you’re a young kid without telling people you’re a young kid. You sweet summer child
Doesn’t look like Ethernet.
This is a landline port for phones. Early internet used it but it’s useless these days
There’s a fiber endpoint dangling from the corner of my apartment’s laundry nook and it’s got me thinking….
DSL line
That’s for a landline.
It’s a telephone port.
Why did we need 3 pics of your finger ?
The ethernet port is the rj-45 that consist of 8 pins, that must be a phone jack or something, which ive never seen has 6 pins, at least where i work at
Argh! Why did you pick up the phone?? I was almost done downloading Eminem – The Real Slim Shady.mp3
“Don’t you guys have phones?”
grunt* cough* back and knees crack* , grumble grumble , you see here sonny back in my day we folk used to talk on telephones wired to the wall , and from that same port we would connect to this new amazing thing called teh internets , we used to pay by the minute for that and it would take 5 mins just to connect , and if mom picked up the phone to call your aunt youd get disconnected. … but yes in all seriousness thats an old phone port
Your fingernail looks so freaky, looks like my foots pinky toe, but really long
Fucking Christ. This one hurt, until I tired to remember the last time I actually plugged a house phone in. And then it hurt again lol
Have you heard of phones?
Touch it more. Closer.
is this one of those “find the differences between the pictures” games or did you really upload 3 of the same picture?
Phone line. Also your download speed has little to do with your connection to the wall
Wow.
We did not get a private line until 1976, before that we had party lines, one line for the entire house. Private lines were expensive.
that finger is creepy lol, it’s all by itself
That’s a cruel lie, it’s either an RJ11 jack in a 6P config or a later RJ12 jack. Either way it’s no ethernet. RJ45 has eight pins.
If that’s a Cat 5e. that they used instead of an 6 wire phone line you might be in luck, could swap out the terminal for easy ethernet access. More likely though it’s just a 6 wire cable.
Are wall Ethernet ports common anywhere on the planet? Honest question
Im 26 and fully understand the difference and the confusion here, genuinely curious if I’ve missed something though
Yo g, its the old copper telephone line. Usually consists of two or more cores/wires of copper. This was the primary way of communicating with electricity. Fax, phone, internet.
I mean fibre internet is a thing now but I’m 22 and still had dial up internet back in the 2000’s. My dad still has a landline/homephone and old school broadband internet. Just something that we as young people will probably never use again
BT phone jack
My last house had all these everywhere, not the one I moved into though.
I feel you dude I live in NZ aswell thought there were 2 Ethernet ports but only one and it’s broken
Europe is a scary place
I think the six pins is DSL
Electric Pencil sharpner
Are square head screws more common in New Zealand? Like most phone jack I see are so old they are all flat head.
It’s telecom BT specifically, not sure what services that line provides (probably telephony only).
https://www.farnell.com/datasheets/1509194.pdf
It’s 6 pin like RJ12, but more rectangular.
That’s a finger
Dial up connection unfortunately
I’m more concerned with how wet this dudes floor looks.
https://youtu.be/oHNEzndgiFI?si=q8MiGB5eHToe9pZr
Fonger
For sure not ethernet. An RJ-45 connector uses 8 pins and the shape is different
Technically you could use it to connect to the internet but I don’t think it will be faster than you have now
If not ether why ether shaped? 😁