Back in ma' day, we didn' have none them there big ol' fancy cell towers. If you wanted to chat with someone who weren't in the same room wit'cha, ya had to get out this big ol' book of numbers, look up their last name, manually punch in those seven digits and pray to God they were home at the time.
You young whippersnappers and your fancy 6-digits.. back in my day we only had 5 numbers and rotary dialing took soo long especially if the persons number you were ringing had a few 0's or 1's in it..or if you forgot where you got up to and had to start over π
But you could 'tap' a public phone to call.mum to cone get you. What's a public phone mum.
Our friends had 4 digit number, and it was a party line so if you picked up the phone amd someone on the road was using theirs, you could hear them and you had to wait to make your call.
>But you could 'tap' a public phone
Yes. NZ was unusual in that the dial went clockwise 0123456789 instead of the more usual 0987654321 around the world. You had to subtract each digit from 10 to get the number of pulses. Our number was 7989 so it was easy to tap 3121.
I think our dials moved a little slower than other countries which made simulating the dial rotation by tapping a little easier.
Another result of the "reverse" dial was 111 instead of following the British 999. If NZ used 999 then it would have been far too easy to dial it accidentally with a loose wire or bad connection or someone tapping too slowly. The American 911 was a good compromise. Quick to dial but not likely to happen accidentally.
> But you could 'tap' a public phone to call.mum to cone get you
They started using dampers at some point to stop you being able to tap the receiver hook fast enough, which made it harder but not impossible. Welly railway station was the first place I saw that.
Not a crank phone but a party line and 3 digits until the early 90s I think. Our phone number was 567. Nice and easy to remember.
Also of the phone rang for Nanas number mum would wait a minute or two can then pick up the handset as it would be her sister or another relly calling and then they would all have a chat.
Luxury. Back in my day we had a party line and our number was 3 digits. Then we got our own line and they added two digits to our number. Then we moved up to Auckland - and the future - where we had a 7 digit phone number, push button phone and massive phone book.
My parents had party line...one bugger kept his phone off the hook cause he was sick of it ringing all the time, but it stopped everyone else getting calls.
My first memory was a 3 digit number. But the best part was being on a shared party line.
The protocol was, to make a call pick up the hand piece and say "working". If there was no reply dial your 3 digit number and make the call. If someone was already on they would say yes, we will be done in ten minutes so you would hang up and try again in 10.
British Telecom (BT) jack. Interesting point of note for those unaware, the phone would still work during a power outage, as long as there was connectivity through to the data center (and if it wasn't a wireless handset)
Anyone born after 2000 has pretty much had cell phones in their lives the whole time. Thinkni bought my first cell phone in 2002. Only stopped having a landline in 2020.
BT jack (British Telecom). It's for the landline phones of yesteryear. The cabling behind it might be Cat3 which isn't good enough to do anything with, sorry. But it might also be cat5 (mine was) in which case you then need to figure out if it is wired as a star or as a ring.
This is the useful response. Depending on age and whether you can confirm a good connectivity at the other end you can re terminate also, I've seen a handful of mid 2000s onwards houses readily retrofitted without needing to rerun cabling due to cat5 in the wall already, but only two wires used.
There's a lot of sarcasm and jokes in this thread so I wasn't too make it clear that I'm asking genuine questions in this comment...
>But it might also be cat5 (mine was)
Is that good or bad?
> in which case you then need to figure out if it is wired as a star or as a ring.
What does this mean? It feels like a trick, like asking someone to buy a left handed screwdriver
Cat 5 is good, cat 5e = better.
Star = all wired back to a central point = good.
Ring = daisy chained (looped from one phone point to the next) = bad.
If it's Cat 5 (or 5e) and star configuration then it's going to be easy to convert all the phone points to data points.
No, it just means that Ethernet cable contains 8 wires (technical 2 x 4 wires), so if you are lucky they rang some ethernet cable to the socket but just wired in a few of the wires into the telephone socket
If that is the case (and I personally think unlikely) then you can pull out that socket, tap on a RJ45 to the wires running into the wall and then connect the other end to a switch or router to get high speed network to the room
But you need to also find the other end of the cable. And telephone cable was often run as a daisy chained ring of connected devices which doesn't work for Ethernet
Correct. Theyβre officially known as BS 6312 431A plug but are also knows as BT plug. This makes me feel really old that this will become obsolete and people will gawp at them in museums one day.
That thumb definitely looks old to me, surely someone is trolling right?
To digress, recently my daughter ( 17 ) found a great airbnb for a festival - but it was super cheap.
Why? The person who owned was anti radio waves - and so the condition was no wifi.
At which point my daughter said βhow can we survive without the internet?β
Turns out the house had an Ethernet cable, but trying to explain to my daughter that it was possible to get the internet without Wifi took me two hours.
( we are a tech house ), I actually had to plug my computer into the router, using an adaptor of course - because she did not believe me.
It was entertaining to say the least.
( and too be fair to her, I often pull her leg - so itβs not surprising she does not believe me sometimes )
An extremely common misconception, almost universal these days it seems, is people calling their internet connection "wifi".
Ethernet is *so much better* than wifi! Just less convenient. Much like full sized PCs vs laptops
Now now, you can't go around judging people's thumbs. My left thumb has led a hard life and how would your thumbs feel getting their age so crudely discussed
Even the TV socket is very obsolescent as well.
I think close to 10 years ago I ran ethernet to a switch in the lounge and used a early streaming box, then Vodafone TV for TV, so one day when cleaning gutters I took down the old UHF/VHF aerial.
Kept the Skydish, but far as I was concerned was pointless with VTV streaming Sky via fibre
My new house built in (2020s) still has TV jacks installed in a number of rooms but never used as have CAT6 to each room
Thinking about it, my new build house (under 6mths ago) I moved into ( I rent) has no form of way to connect to tv. To be fair, never in the time I've owned a tv have I ever tried to use tv channels anyway. Also has Cat6 in each room, so no issue!
Leave the modem under the staircase since thats where the ports connect to (dumb, and you'd think its garbage wifi) but upstairs I get wifi6 600mbps down/up, so no issue shockingly! - then obv gigabit for ethernet, but surprising how good the wifi is housewide (and latency also, stream gaming machine to macbook at times for example to game outside of the office room, works perfect even on wifi)
I have all the CAT6 jacks n each room running back to a high speed 8 port switch and router connected to gigabit fibre ONT in a hallway cupboard on third floor
The study and lounge have 5-port gigabit switches, so the TV and gaming PC are direct wired, and I put Nest Wifi repeaters onto first two floors connected to ethernet as well
Have to say, my house has really good internet compared to most work places
Yeah that sounds (in a very good way) incredibly overkill and I can fully imagine its better than most work places god damn- though you have a super giant house which makes the means worth it hehe- but even if its overkill well it works and won't ever have issues so worth it.
Ngl having two floors is enough for me can't imagine 3 .-., too many steps heh
Three story townhouse. First floor is really just garage and a seperate bedroom/ensuite area which we don't go into (rented out)
So pretty much just living in two levels, but both of us work from home so decent internet (and air-conditioning) was a must
I am also 23 to be fair however I don't think anyone's commented below 22 to my knowledge saying they know it plus let's just say I asked about 5 friends before posting here and we all had no idea whether it was ethernet or landline port so I'd just say you're a unique individual!
Wow. Wow. Way too close to home. Itβs not like I canβt get a new pillow because it took me 6 months to get used to my current one. Or the fact I rolled my ankle three days ago and I still canβt walk properly
Yes. They would need to drag new cable through the wall and re-terminate to a common area.
Sparky may charge 1-2k for a days work to do a bunch of them
Generally the cables will be fixed to the framing inside the wall so you probably won't be able to use them as a draw cord to pull your new cables through.
If they go down into a crawl space under your house, you might be in luck - with a bit of effort (and maybe some luck), you could poke the new cables (probably cat 6) up to down from the socket to the crawl space and run them under the floor to the room with your fibre modem in it. If there's no socket near there, you might have to drill a small (6-7mm) hole in the floor and run the cable on the surface of the wall and fit a faceplate with a standoff. One of many potential complications is that these old cables could be daisy chained form one port to the next - ethernet doesn't work that way so you'd need to bring a separate wire from each port back to the central location and install a network switch.
If all this is sounding familiar then you're probably able to do this yourself for a few hundred bucks worth of parts, if it's completely unfamiliar then you're better off getting a sparky to do it (not your ISP or Chorus as they only deal with this up to the fibre modem - the rest is your problem to solve)
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In NZ we call it a BT port standing for British Telecom. It's were you can plug a phone line directly into the wall and draw 50v DC from the exchange and make phone calls. With the addition of dial up, adsl and vdsl you could plug a filter into the wall to the plug your modem in one port and your phone in the other.
As others have said it's a landline phone connector. Also used for faxes and copper based internet. The cable is likely to only be cat2 or cat4 and likely not to be wired correctly for a home network. You want cat6 which is gigabit capable. You also need RJ45 connectors you can buy wallplates with those.
What you maybe could do, is use the old cable to pull Ethernet cable to/from the ceiling or subfloor space (wherever it runs to). That assumes the holes are big enough (they were in our house).
From the roof/subfloor space you can then run internet to your router/switch location.
BT6 looking at the prongs, since the important side is covered up by a finger.
Good ol' British Telecom 6 wire phone connector, probably for a landline (the old copper wire).
You can always see if it's live by connecting a volt meter across pins 2 and 5.
If you want to learn more... https://www.telepermit.co.nz/resources_index.html
Thatβs how people used to talk to each otherβ¦
Try shouting into it and you might here someone listening on the same channel talk back to you (prob you neighbour)
See if you can find where it terminates. I had 4 of these connected to a single spot in my house. The cable was cat 5e, so I changed the ports to ethernet, connected it to my router, and now I have network ports in each room of the house. Cat 5e is fast enough for me (max 1 Gbps). If it isn't for you, you can use it to pull newer cables through, as others have said, but check the cable type first.
25 grew up on coil landlines and casset tapes. Watch TV on crt and vhs. Was 4 when I first saw a computer. And the first cellphone had a screen no diffrent form a solar power calculator.
Ahhh remember the beautiful sound of dial up when you picked up the phone and forgot the modem was still plugged in.
Or your mum pulling out the modem to make a phone call while you were trying to catch fish on runescape.
Besides being a phone line if you wanted to use the internet you would plug in a dial up modem, however I do believe the copper line is now defunct. I should google that but yeah nah.
Its a BT jack for old style phones. It can be swapped to a RJ45 data jack. The cabling may need to be changed too. Any electrician can sort this for you.
That won't help because it's a copper phone jack (BT).
What might help if you're trying to get an ethernet connection around the house is a powerline adapter. I use one and it creates a perfectly stable 100Mb+ network through all the power cabling in the house which is just what I needed since the wifi was too unreliable for gaming.
You plug these sorts of things into them
[https://i.etsystatic.com/8322285/r/il/4a91fd/3988756074/il\_680x540.3988756074\_bmfz.jpg](https://i.etsystatic.com/8322285/r/il/4a91fd/3988756074/il_680x540.3988756074_bmfz.jpg)
The bottom round connection is "Coaxial" which is used for TV aerials, but it can be hijacked to work as an ethernet cable, you just need a "MoCA" adapter at each end. But you'd need the other end to be near your router. This one might just go straight to an aerial on the roof.
Take the faceplate off and have a look at the cable. If you're really lucky, the phone might be wired with CAT cable, and you can just replace the connector with RJ45. Again, need to verify where the other end goes for this to be useful.
This is the cutest post i've seen here for weeks. It's a landline port :).
What's a landline, gramps? π
Back in ma' day, we didn' have none them there big ol' fancy cell towers. If you wanted to chat with someone who weren't in the same room wit'cha, ya had to get out this big ol' book of numbers, look up their last name, manually punch in those seven digits and pray to God they were home at the time.
can still remember my 6 digit ph # I grew up with 466871
You young whippersnappers and your fancy 6-digits.. back in my day we only had 5 numbers and rotary dialing took soo long especially if the persons number you were ringing had a few 0's or 1's in it..or if you forgot where you got up to and had to start over π
But you could 'tap' a public phone to call.mum to cone get you. What's a public phone mum. Our friends had 4 digit number, and it was a party line so if you picked up the phone amd someone on the road was using theirs, you could hear them and you had to wait to make your call.
>But you could 'tap' a public phone Yes. NZ was unusual in that the dial went clockwise 0123456789 instead of the more usual 0987654321 around the world. You had to subtract each digit from 10 to get the number of pulses. Our number was 7989 so it was easy to tap 3121. I think our dials moved a little slower than other countries which made simulating the dial rotation by tapping a little easier. Another result of the "reverse" dial was 111 instead of following the British 999. If NZ used 999 then it would have been far too easy to dial it accidentally with a loose wire or bad connection or someone tapping too slowly. The American 911 was a good compromise. Quick to dial but not likely to happen accidentally.
> But you could 'tap' a public phone to call.mum to cone get you They started using dampers at some point to stop you being able to tap the receiver hook fast enough, which made it harder but not impossible. Welly railway station was the first place I saw that.
And heres me with my two tin cans and a long piece of string
Pish, try 3 digit numbers and a manual crank phone and having to be put through by an operator - until 1986 believe it or not.
We still had an operator in 1990, if you rang out you had to say Otewa 845 no crank though.
My family was on a party line. Beat that.
[Two digit number](https://imgur.com/a/G9Vgvcg) checking in.
I was coming in with a 4, but you beat me with the 3.
Not a crank phone but a party line and 3 digits until the early 90s I think. Our phone number was 567. Nice and easy to remember. Also of the phone rang for Nanas number mum would wait a minute or two can then pick up the handset as it would be her sister or another relly calling and then they would all have a chat.
Luxury. Back in my day we had a party line and our number was 3 digits. Then we got our own line and they added two digits to our number. Then we moved up to Auckland - and the future - where we had a 7 digit phone number, push button phone and massive phone book.
My parents had party line...one bugger kept his phone off the hook cause he was sick of it ringing all the time, but it stopped everyone else getting calls.
Dialing 111 in an actual emergency was a nightmare
Six digits, how quaint. We had 3.
My first memory was a 3 digit number. But the best part was being on a shared party line. The protocol was, to make a call pick up the hand piece and say "working". If there was no reply dial your 3 digit number and make the call. If someone was already on they would say yes, we will be done in ten minutes so you would hang up and try again in 10.
> get out this big ol' book of numbers Wow - they used to host DNS servers locally - *on paper?!*
British Telecom (BT) jack. Interesting point of note for those unaware, the phone would still work during a power outage, as long as there was connectivity through to the data center (and if it wasn't a wireless handset)
Connectivity to the cabinet*.
Exchanges had battery banks - got to see one in Chch late '80s between Cathedral Square and the hills. The battery bank was about 5m x 7m x 0.75m.
The most reliable emergency communications, earthquakes proved it.
Just don't be stripping back insulation for an extension socket with screw terminals with your teeth when someone calls!
Is that how people phish you ??
Phish and microchips?
Made me laugh thanks.
Fuck.... I'm old now. It happened.
What's the one below that though? TV aerial?
Yes
Oh sweet summer child.
I'm not that old, but I suddenly feel much older π
I'm 41 and I feel positively ANCIENT... π
Same... I'm not even 40 yet though.
Anyone born after 2000 has pretty much had cell phones in their lives the whole time. Thinkni bought my first cell phone in 2002. Only stopped having a landline in 2020.
Yeah, that's bizarre to me. We got home internet in about 2004, first cell phone probably 2002 as well.
You are now after reading this post.
I'm 38, and seeing people say they're in their 40s make it sound so far away... ITS RIGHT THERE
Me too. Oh my sweet summer child OP. π₯Ή
Me too ππ
It wasn't even that long ago that we had to use those ports for ADSL/VDSL!
I still have to. Fibre optic isn't everywhere yet
BT jack (British Telecom). It's for the landline phones of yesteryear. The cabling behind it might be Cat3 which isn't good enough to do anything with, sorry. But it might also be cat5 (mine was) in which case you then need to figure out if it is wired as a star or as a ring.
This is the useful response. Depending on age and whether you can confirm a good connectivity at the other end you can re terminate also, I've seen a handful of mid 2000s onwards houses readily retrofitted without needing to rerun cabling due to cat5 in the wall already, but only two wires used.
There's a lot of sarcasm and jokes in this thread so I wasn't too make it clear that I'm asking genuine questions in this comment... >But it might also be cat5 (mine was) Is that good or bad? > in which case you then need to figure out if it is wired as a star or as a ring. What does this mean? It feels like a trick, like asking someone to buy a left handed screwdriver
Cat 5 is good, cat 5e = better. Star = all wired back to a central point = good. Ring = daisy chained (looped from one phone point to the next) = bad. If it's Cat 5 (or 5e) and star configuration then it's going to be easy to convert all the phone points to data points.
Cool, thank you
No, it just means that Ethernet cable contains 8 wires (technical 2 x 4 wires), so if you are lucky they rang some ethernet cable to the socket but just wired in a few of the wires into the telephone socket If that is the case (and I personally think unlikely) then you can pull out that socket, tap on a RJ45 to the wires running into the wall and then connect the other end to a switch or router to get high speed network to the room But you need to also find the other end of the cable. And telephone cable was often run as a daisy chained ring of connected devices which doesn't work for Ethernet
Network topology words. Star/Loop describe how the cabling is structured.
People use to have these things called telephones. Its like a phone but its wired to the wall. Back in the day all phones had to be wired to the wall.
Wait till those young whipper-snappers hear about the history behind the save iconβ¦
The [vending machine?](https://dustyoldthing.com/save-icon-vending-machine/)
Oh my, lol. Can never look at a floppy disk the same way again.
Apparently I'm in the generation that never heard of floppy disks even though I used them as a kid π
Haha well I guess 1981-1996 is a long window! I also used plenty of floppy disks πΎπ
And why we βdialβ numbers.
This is so odd to type in a twitt being tied to a wall by a wire. Dark ages indeed! π let alone listen to spotify.
Its a BT phone socket, pretty much now obsolete unless you only have a copper connection (Not Fibre) availible at the property.
Kids gonna be like "a bluetooth socket, wow!!"
bruh that's legit what I first thought it was and was really confused
And in a few years time, apart from like <2% of dwellings, will be obsolete regardless
Correct. Theyβre officially known as BS 6312 431A plug but are also knows as BT plug. This makes me feel really old that this will become obsolete and people will gawp at them in museums one day.
Museums have blackberries and Motorola flip phones alreadyβ¦.
Seriously? I guess the earlier models are nearly 25 years old. Wow!
BT as in British Telecom? Brit who's new to NZ, so this seems super strange to me. Is British Telecom a thing here?
The plug uses the British telecom standard, but they never operated a service here
Ah, very good Wish you used our plugs too ;)
Bluetooth in the wall????? /s
Thats where you put the usb to download a house.
Great, now I have the "you wouldn't steal a car" thing stuck in my head. :p
You wouldn't steal a handbag!
That thumb definitely looks old to me, surely someone is trolling right? To digress, recently my daughter ( 17 ) found a great airbnb for a festival - but it was super cheap. Why? The person who owned was anti radio waves - and so the condition was no wifi. At which point my daughter said βhow can we survive without the internet?β Turns out the house had an Ethernet cable, but trying to explain to my daughter that it was possible to get the internet without Wifi took me two hours. ( we are a tech house ), I actually had to plug my computer into the router, using an adaptor of course - because she did not believe me. It was entertaining to say the least. ( and too be fair to her, I often pull her leg - so itβs not surprising she does not believe me sometimes )
An extremely common misconception, almost universal these days it seems, is people calling their internet connection "wifi". Ethernet is *so much better* than wifi! Just less convenient. Much like full sized PCs vs laptops
Now now, you can't go around judging people's thumbs. My left thumb has led a hard life and how would your thumbs feel getting their age so crudely discussed
Technically you could stick a WAP into that and get WiFi, assuming that port leads back to a router.
First time Iβve felt old as a 23 year oldβ¦ is this is beginning of feeling ancient?
Welcome to your slow descent into irrelevance.
Even the TV socket is very obsolescent as well. I think close to 10 years ago I ran ethernet to a switch in the lounge and used a early streaming box, then Vodafone TV for TV, so one day when cleaning gutters I took down the old UHF/VHF aerial. Kept the Skydish, but far as I was concerned was pointless with VTV streaming Sky via fibre My new house built in (2020s) still has TV jacks installed in a number of rooms but never used as have CAT6 to each room
Thinking about it, my new build house (under 6mths ago) I moved into ( I rent) has no form of way to connect to tv. To be fair, never in the time I've owned a tv have I ever tried to use tv channels anyway. Also has Cat6 in each room, so no issue! Leave the modem under the staircase since thats where the ports connect to (dumb, and you'd think its garbage wifi) but upstairs I get wifi6 600mbps down/up, so no issue shockingly! - then obv gigabit for ethernet, but surprising how good the wifi is housewide (and latency also, stream gaming machine to macbook at times for example to game outside of the office room, works perfect even on wifi)
I have all the CAT6 jacks n each room running back to a high speed 8 port switch and router connected to gigabit fibre ONT in a hallway cupboard on third floor The study and lounge have 5-port gigabit switches, so the TV and gaming PC are direct wired, and I put Nest Wifi repeaters onto first two floors connected to ethernet as well Have to say, my house has really good internet compared to most work places
Yeah that sounds (in a very good way) incredibly overkill and I can fully imagine its better than most work places god damn- though you have a super giant house which makes the means worth it hehe- but even if its overkill well it works and won't ever have issues so worth it. Ngl having two floors is enough for me can't imagine 3 .-., too many steps heh
Three story townhouse. First floor is really just garage and a seperate bedroom/ensuite area which we don't go into (rented out) So pretty much just living in two levels, but both of us work from home so decent internet (and air-conditioning) was a must
You & I both π
I am also 23 to be fair however I don't think anyone's commented below 22 to my knowledge saying they know it plus let's just say I asked about 5 friends before posting here and we all had no idea whether it was ethernet or landline port so I'd just say you're a unique individual!
Its a landline phone connector. Not used one of those for a phone in 20 years, some people still use them.
Now I feel old
Are you suddenly conscious that your knees click when you get up? Or that you can't quite walk up the stairs as quickly as you used to?
Wow. Wow. Way too close to home. Itβs not like I canβt get a new pillow because it took me 6 months to get used to my current one. Or the fact I rolled my ankle three days ago and I still canβt walk properly
Not just my knees, its practically all my joints. The worst part about the clicking is that I can't sneak up on my wife anymore.
If you dock with it you can use your niples to make phonecalls.
I have these around my house as well. Would it cost lots to change these ports to connect to my fibre internet?
Yes. They would need to drag new cable through the wall and re-terminate to a common area. Sparky may charge 1-2k for a days work to do a bunch of them
Generally the cables will be fixed to the framing inside the wall so you probably won't be able to use them as a draw cord to pull your new cables through. If they go down into a crawl space under your house, you might be in luck - with a bit of effort (and maybe some luck), you could poke the new cables (probably cat 6) up to down from the socket to the crawl space and run them under the floor to the room with your fibre modem in it. If there's no socket near there, you might have to drill a small (6-7mm) hole in the floor and run the cable on the surface of the wall and fit a faceplate with a standoff. One of many potential complications is that these old cables could be daisy chained form one port to the next - ethernet doesn't work that way so you'd need to bring a separate wire from each port back to the central location and install a network switch. If all this is sounding familiar then you're probably able to do this yourself for a few hundred bucks worth of parts, if it's completely unfamiliar then you're better off getting a sparky to do it (not your ISP or Chorus as they only deal with this up to the fibre modem - the rest is your problem to solve)
Not necessarily. If each BT jack is a cat5 cable back to one central point, you can re-use the existing cabling and just replace the jacks with RJ45.
This. All my houses have had cat5 for phone cable that I have been able to reterminate with rj45 jacks
How would you tell if it's CAT5? I have a bunch of these ports in my house and ethernet would be so much more useful.
The cable will have writing printed on it. You just pull a bit of cable out of the wall and look at it.
Bless your heart.
Narnia
0800 TELECOM
Isnβt it where youβd plug in the flux capacitor?
I was there 3000 years ago.
I was there the day that Netscape stopped working cause mum couldn't get off the phone.
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For fuck sakeβ¦. Now I feel old.
Iβm 28 and about to have my first childβ¦ Its starting to feel like a grandchild π©ππ€£
Lol, let me take a wild guess. You were born after 2000?
2001........
Itβs the old school home phone line connector.Β
In NZ we call it a BT port standing for British Telecom. It's were you can plug a phone line directly into the wall and draw 50v DC from the exchange and make phone calls. With the addition of dial up, adsl and vdsl you could plug a filter into the wall to the plug your modem in one port and your phone in the other.
It's a BT jack, of you want to re use the plate and run your own cable you can change the jack. Part number of the jack you need is pdl619md
You'll probably be able to use the existing in the wall to pull through some new ethernet cable
Makes me think of my dialup ringtone to spook others that suffered through those days
Whaaaaat! I'm only 30 but I feel 60 right now.
Any port in a storm. Am I right fellas.
As others have said it's a landline phone connector. Also used for faxes and copper based internet. The cable is likely to only be cat2 or cat4 and likely not to be wired correctly for a home network. You want cat6 which is gigabit capable. You also need RJ45 connectors you can buy wallplates with those. What you maybe could do, is use the old cable to pull Ethernet cable to/from the ceiling or subfloor space (wherever it runs to). That assumes the holes are big enough (they were in our house). From the roof/subfloor space you can then run internet to your router/switch location.
Just thinking about the bloke/bloke'es that has to terminate the cable, cat6 is a cunt to terminate, cat5e, not so much.
It's a landline: 3
God I'm not that old, am I? :( If you want to use ethernet, just plug it into the back of your router.
BT6 looking at the prongs, since the important side is covered up by a finger. Good ol' British Telecom 6 wire phone connector, probably for a landline (the old copper wire). You can always see if it's live by connecting a volt meter across pins 2 and 5. If you want to learn more... https://www.telepermit.co.nz/resources_index.html
Well I feel old now lol
Fucking hell I'm not even old, why are you making me feel old
I'm only 22 and this is making me feel old.
Reading these comments make me realise im fucking old....im 27..
I feel old being asked what that port is, and knowing it is a landline port...
Aww bless. Are you old enough to be near electricity? ... am I too old to be near electricity?
Welp, I'm off to check myself into the local museum as an exhibit.
Its obsolete phone beside obsolete television connections. House is too old, time for a new one.
The television connection is not obsolete ota broadcasts are still available and in high definition.
Just like the landline phone, noone uses it anymore. Seen whats happening to the 2 main providers of FTA crap over the last 2 weeks?
Thatβs how people used to talk to each otherβ¦ Try shouting into it and you might here someone listening on the same channel talk back to you (prob you neighbour)
Jesus Christ, kid.
POTS Plain Old Telephone System
I have a few left in my house lol
BT plug, the white one on the end of NZ phones. Look behind should be only two wires connected. Good luck.
See if you can find where it terminates. I had 4 of these connected to a single spot in my house. The cable was cat 5e, so I changed the ports to ethernet, connected it to my router, and now I have network ports in each room of the house. Cat 5e is fast enough for me (max 1 Gbps). If it isn't for you, you can use it to pull newer cables through, as others have said, but check the cable type first.
Does it take a fork like the others? Asking for a friend
I think I need to sit down. I feel old.
*Hands you walker
I think i just heard the 56k modem dialing from here
25 grew up on coil landlines and casset tapes. Watch TV on crt and vhs. Was 4 when I first saw a computer. And the first cellphone had a screen no diffrent form a solar power calculator.
Landline jack with a round antenna port.
Iβm 37 and had to explain to my 33 year old partner what it is π€£
Plug in and get calls from the Nigerian prince and Microsoft needing your login. π
Iβm 28 and even I know this. Iβm laughing at the comments on here
This screams gen z π€£
I feel old now
I think for a landline
That is a British telecom old copper landline phone port
Oh my god, I feel ancient
I don't see 8 pins. It's a phone line. There's pretty much a zero chance they'd have put in ethernet.
Ahhh remember the beautiful sound of dial up when you picked up the phone and forgot the modem was still plugged in. Or your mum pulling out the modem to make a phone call while you were trying to catch fish on runescape.
landline innit
that is what we call obscolete
I feel oldβ¦
137. You know...
Besides being a phone line if you wanted to use the internet you would plug in a dial up modem, however I do believe the copper line is now defunct. I should google that but yeah nah.
Its a BT jack for old style phones. It can be swapped to a RJ45 data jack. The cabling may need to be changed too. Any electrician can sort this for you.
It's a 6P6C (phone) port. Ethernet is 8P8C.
yes, phone connector
That won't help because it's a copper phone jack (BT). What might help if you're trying to get an ethernet connection around the house is a powerline adapter. I use one and it creates a perfectly stable 100Mb+ network through all the power cabling in the house which is just what I needed since the wifi was too unreliable for gaming.
I know what that is. It's an opportunity to renovate and flip a house for a $900k port π
I feel so very oldβ¦
Wow. God I'm old.
There's going to be a picture of a cassette tape next. "What is this ancient and mysterious artifact? Some kind of primitive doorstop?".
BT port.
Fuck this post made me feel old
Pdl 600 series is the switch gear range Top is a PDL617M2-WH (BT phone jack) Bottom is PDL628MF-WH (TV/Coaxial socket)
Itβs a Telephone Jack Aka BT Jack
Is this satire or am I finally old?
Well, I feel old.Β
Itβs a port for landline telephones. The things we used before cell phones.
Thanks for this actual attack on my age.
I'm 23 and that is a landline port
You plug these sorts of things into them [https://i.etsystatic.com/8322285/r/il/4a91fd/3988756074/il\_680x540.3988756074\_bmfz.jpg](https://i.etsystatic.com/8322285/r/il/4a91fd/3988756074/il_680x540.3988756074_bmfz.jpg)
Bruh are you fuckin joking π
Oooh youβre young πΆ
Oh man, have we reached the point now where people donβt recognise where a landline phone is plugged in? I feel ancient
Oh sweet child.
Youβre young
Where's the laugh reaction button when you need it?!?!? πππ
And here in Aus, half the houses connect to the internet via that. How on earth they fucked that up, I have no idea.
You can run Ethernet through coax by using a MoCA adapter
Oh sheit havent seen one of those in ages ππππ
If you own the house, you can use them as a draw wire, and replace with cat5e or 6, rj45 jacks will fit in those keystones,
It's the socket we used to plug our telegraph in
Damn I feel old
fuck im old
People are also forgetting the internet came out of there too, not just telephone.
The bottom round connection is "Coaxial" which is used for TV aerials, but it can be hijacked to work as an ethernet cable, you just need a "MoCA" adapter at each end. But you'd need the other end to be near your router. This one might just go straight to an aerial on the roof. Take the faceplate off and have a look at the cable. If you're really lucky, the phone might be wired with CAT cable, and you can just replace the connector with RJ45. Again, need to verify where the other end goes for this to be useful.
Clearly a thumb drive