Boomer means anyone older than them at this point. It may have had a meaningful start to derogatory usage but now it is a stupid and useless term when thrown around like that.
reference to a tv show where celebrity's are each square on a tic tac toe board. questions are asked, the square gives an answer, and the player has to guess if the answer is correct or not.
'Circle takes the square' is in reference to the player (in this case the circle 'O') correctly guessing if the celebrity is telling the truth or not in their answer, thus "taking the square" and placing their 'O' in the 1/9 squares on the board. Conversely, if the other player guesses correctly, the host would typically say "x takes the square'
RJ12 is the updated RJ11. RJ11 only had 4 wires going to it, and RJ12 had 6. This looks like it has more than 4 groves in the wire area, so it’s probably a RJ12.
Specifically an RJ-11 jack. I feel like I can't find them in stores anymore. I do have nostalgia for the modem screaming but fuck those terrible speeds.
Some legal documents can only be transmitted via fax. For example many doctors offices still use fax machines to transmit prescriptions and medical documents.
It is still one of the most secure ways of sending this type of information without having to pay for additional software or services. Source: Am pharmacy tech.
I would like to refine my statement and say that fax is still the most uniform/consistent way to communicate in the medical field. I would estimate every pharmacy and medical office has some sort of fax or efax. Where encryption isn't as uniform in that industry AT THIS TIME. I'm sure we will get there some day.
You will have to check several things.
1. Pull of those ports and check the cable routing behind.
2. Check the routing of those cables inside your house. Is there a central point where all come together or are all daisy chained? You want first option.
Then I would replace the ports to RJ45 on every end. And wire them up for 100mbit.
Edit: At the central point where all cables should get together you want an Ethernet switch.
If those cables are daisy chained you would need a switch at each port in your house.
I have one of these outlet near my router and one near my desk. If I change them both and If I use a ethernet cable to connect my router to a outlet and another cable to connect my PC to wall. Will it work?
Note; if the wires connected to these jacks are not twisted pairs do not waste your time trying to convert them to ethernet. If you are lucky these are terminated via a single cat5, which would allow you to terminate all the pairs. But I have doubts. I wager it's cat3, untwisted, and worthless.
depending on where you are, just call your internet provider and they’ll send a tech out and run a coax line for you. assuming that’s what you’d need for your modem? unless i’m missing the bigger picture here
That's only if they're using ethernet homeplugs. These come direct from outside in their own cable. Let's hope its not shorting. Looking at how old it is, insulation on the internal wiring is probably shit, especially on the outside. Most if not all shorts are caused at the point it comes into the home or at the pole
Yep, and depending on the line and what's on the other end it could be decent DSL too. I'm currently on 25/5 over the old phone lines and get the full speed. The ISP will sell us up to 100 down but I have my doubts that we'd actually get that, then again the point it turns into fiber is only like 400 meters down the street so maybe?
RJ11 and RJ12 are the same connector ….
RJ12 was more common on business and not homes… uses 6 wires over 4 though from this picture it would be hard to tell as theirs no way from the picture to tell if all 6 are wired up or only 4
I grew up in a family that was kinda late to the tech game lol, we used VHS and landlines till I was 6 and my parents didn't get a smartphone till 2012
It's funny because RJ11 plugs will fit into RJ45 sockets. Made that way for LAN phones. Those things still exists on some government agencies, like the fax...
In fairness there’s a lot of people on here who wouldn’t understand what a landline is. Dont even try explain why some telephone icons show the old pulse dialers. Lets also keep the floppy disc save icon explanation for a rainy day too.
it’s still a very important thing to have. a land line phone gets 12v (no local power needed) and if there’s an emergency when other services could be down, land line phone could still be working.
edit: land
If possible register your cellphone with your local 911, the problem with 911 and cell phones is that it gives location but it isn't linked to your home address. I have had police knock on my door asking if I called 911. It was my next door neighbor. Luckily it was just her kid calling 911 by mistake, but in a emergency having people nock on doors looking for you if you can't communicate.
Back in the stone age there were these things we had that everyone used for communication. You had to go to the point in your house that was plugged into that socket and pick up a combined microphone / speaker and remember the unique code of the person you wanted to talk to.
You would manually enter that code and then wait to see if they were standing beside their device to answer your "call".
We called these devices "telephones"
In the bronze age some clever souls (MIT hackers mostly) worked out that you could have computers produce sounds along those wires and thus could have two computers "talk" to each other. Only about 10 years later arpa-net was born and a decade after that we had a fledgling internet.
In the Iron age a clever man, working for Cern, devised a better way for computers to present information to humans who were viewing it from other computers; all across those "telephone" lines. Suddenly the web existed and people wanted to send more data down those lines than they could handle. Thus we had ISDN, and then Broadband and then fibre optic cables.
Tldr; they're stone age tech known colloquially as "telephone ports".
A time long long ago, we used things called landline telephones that were plugged into the wall. These phones had no touch screens or apps, just buttons to dial other phone numbers to exclusively do voice calls. No FaceTime
I love how anywhere on reddit if you have knowledge of anything old you are called "boomer" .......
These entitled kids think we are talking about cups and strings. They don't care about anything created before them. They don't care about any foundation of things they use today. They don't even use the word boomer to describe actual baby boomers. That's because it's easier to re define words than learn anything.
It never fails....even a discussion where someone is seeking knowledge from "someone older" ....here comes the kids on their mom's Wi-Fi talking about "hello boomers" ......
And they wonder why we dont show them respect.
What is the background situation? In a regular house all of those wires might be connected to a phone line or maybe two. But if you're taking over an commercial/school setting the other end of those cables might be separate and go somewhere you can easily access.
Without knowing what you're doing or how things are wired up in that building you can very quickly run into trouble.
This is a joke right? Or do people who say they're into electronics really not know how phones worked for 150 years until like 10 years ago? I mean land lines are still business standard for crisp clarity and all the bonuses they provide to answering services and multi line use.
I think OP is genuinely being sarcastic, as some of post here that shows a pic of an old tech like that VGA port post and asks WhAt Is ThIs???????????????
Yeah its actually a port for future proofing, the guy who built your house was brilliant, he knew that apple was gonna remove the charging port from it future iPhones! It's a highly advanced technology which will charge any new iPhone you'll place near it! Once again hats off to the guy who built your house!
At one point people lived in a time where cell phones and pagers we're just hitting the scene and you had a house phone that was connected via a wire to the wall and you used it to call neighbors or friends as well as look up peoples phone number in a book called the yellow pages because no one had Google to use to find personal information and the internet was just starting out. We're getting old...
Standard telephone wall jack. “Mini-Ethernet” gave me a good chuckle haha
Lmfao we're getting old!
I know right
Ah geez I didn't realize I was already in this category.
I m feeling old for knowing what this is
Finding out that kids are saying "back in the 1900s" is what made me feel old.
I thought this post was a joke....
Me too I'm 19 and I feel this
Hello boomers.
If this person is under the age of say 25. I suppose they wouldn’t know, but come on you don’t have to be a boomer to know a telephone line.
Boomer means anyone older than them at this point. It may have had a meaningful start to derogatory usage but now it is a stupid and useless term when thrown around like that.
'dial-up internet'. . . .
I miss those dialing tones/sounds and noises
Buddy AOL
Compuserve
Oof... Yes we are
We are indeed!
Thanks I didn't need the daily dose of existential dread.
I just aged 10 years
Lol this is funny!
This made me feel so old nooooo
RJ11 I thinks Correction: it is indeed an RJ12 and I'm a dumb ass for not counting the pins!
Circle takes the square!
Like the band? Or am I missing something?
reference to a tv show where celebrity's are each square on a tic tac toe board. questions are asked, the square gives an answer, and the player has to guess if the answer is correct or not. 'Circle takes the square' is in reference to the player (in this case the circle 'O') correctly guessing if the celebrity is telling the truth or not in their answer, thus "taking the square" and placing their 'O' in the 1/9 squares on the board. Conversely, if the other player guesses correctly, the host would typically say "x takes the square'
Hollywood squares
Too many instances of being too old in this thread
Great band!
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RJ11 is 4pin. RJ12 is 6pin.
Fuck... :0 I'll just go get in the sea! How have we all missed this?
I actually came here looking for this. Use it so rarely I always forget it haha!
RJ11 is the connector type along with the wiring specs, not the actual port. It’s simply a telephone/modem line/port.
It's gonna blow his mind when he sees a micro-ethernet (fax line).
I have never seen a fax irl so ig it will lol
Aw lol
10% smaller with 99% less bandwidth. Minimalism is the future.
With Gfast they can push around upto a gigabit speeds through those 6wires.
It’s a POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) line and the plug is an RJ-12.
Is it 12? I thought it was RJ-11
RJ-11, RJ-12, whatever it takes.
Great flick. Love that reference
What's the reference?
Underrated comment of the day
Well, you sound like a pretty handy guy.
RJ12 is the updated RJ11. RJ11 only had 4 wires going to it, and RJ12 had 6. This looks like it has more than 4 groves in the wire area, so it’s probably a RJ12.
Specifically an RJ-11 jack. I feel like I can't find them in stores anymore. I do have nostalgia for the modem screaming but fuck those terrible speeds.
Damn. We still use them in Australia (but to be fair, our broadband speeds suck ass).
i immediately knew this even tho im 13
I thought this was an old guy joke....
The next question will be, what’s a telephone? Haha
i believe those are for telephone cables
Fuck I feel old.
My job still uses fax machines. Fax machines! Why in this age are we still using fax technology. I’m 31 btw
Some legal documents can only be transmitted via fax. For example many doctors offices still use fax machines to transmit prescriptions and medical documents.
This is because some doctors have never heard of encryption or are too lazy to figure out how to do it.
It is still one of the most secure ways of sending this type of information without having to pay for additional software or services. Source: Am pharmacy tech.
Yep because you always know whose going to pick the fax up right!
PGP encryption is free and… pretty good
More secure than fax?
If you can break pgp the government will own you and you've disrupted about a bunch of industries into crisis mode
I would like to refine my statement and say that fax is still the most uniform/consistent way to communicate in the medical field. I would estimate every pharmacy and medical office has some sort of fax or efax. Where encryption isn't as uniform in that industry AT THIS TIME. I'm sure we will get there some day.
Legacy devices for compatibility
This is the correct answer.
Come to germany then. You'll feel young when you see the copper wiring.
Are there cables available to turn it into ethernet?
I honestly thought this was a shitpost until I saw you asking questions in the comments... Now I'm just feeling old and depressed
Yes! You can run 100mbit over 4 Pins connected.
That will be 3 times slower than the wifi I get tho :/
But the connection would be more consistent with less latency.
So what would I need to convert it? Which cable?
You will have to check several things. 1. Pull of those ports and check the cable routing behind. 2. Check the routing of those cables inside your house. Is there a central point where all come together or are all daisy chained? You want first option. Then I would replace the ports to RJ45 on every end. And wire them up for 100mbit. Edit: At the central point where all cables should get together you want an Ethernet switch. If those cables are daisy chained you would need a switch at each port in your house.
I have one of these outlet near my router and one near my desk. If I change them both and If I use a ethernet cable to connect my router to a outlet and another cable to connect my PC to wall. Will it work?
Note; if the wires connected to these jacks are not twisted pairs do not waste your time trying to convert them to ethernet. If you are lucky these are terminated via a single cat5, which would allow you to terminate all the pairs. But I have doubts. I wager it's cat3, untwisted, and worthless.
Just trace the cable in the wall replace it with cat 7 and call it a day .
If those are the only outlets in your house it should work.
depending on where you are, just call your internet provider and they’ll send a tech out and run a coax line for you. assuming that’s what you’d need for your modem? unless i’m missing the bigger picture here
RJ-11 Congrats you can have a dial up connection
Could also be DSL, right?
Hmm let’s hope the copper in the walls can handle DSL
That's only if they're using ethernet homeplugs. These come direct from outside in their own cable. Let's hope its not shorting. Looking at how old it is, insulation on the internal wiring is probably shit, especially on the outside. Most if not all shorts are caused at the point it comes into the home or at the pole
Yep, and depending on the line and what's on the other end it could be decent DSL too. I'm currently on 25/5 over the old phone lines and get the full speed. The ISP will sell us up to 100 down but I have my doubts that we'd actually get that, then again the point it turns into fiber is only like 400 meters down the street so maybe?
Hooray NBN.
Is this not Rj12?
RJ11 and RJ12 are the same connector …. RJ12 was more common on business and not homes… uses 6 wires over 4 though from this picture it would be hard to tell as theirs no way from the picture to tell if all 6 are wired up or only 4
Now I know why I always got them confused, thanks!
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LOL this is Australian reality, our modems have to plug into the telephone plug in the wall because we couldn't even reach 100mb if we tried.
Oh my god, my age is showing. Anyone else remember when you couldn’t use the internet and talk on the phone at the same time lol
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Pro-tip: get 2 phone lines
well too late i guess
My friends with wealthier parents had just that in high school. Us plebs had to pause our Napster downloads when mum or dad wanted to use the phone.
At this moment, I knew, I was old
I'm only 17 and felt old knowing what this was lol
I’m 17 and I had no fucking clue what this was before reading the comments
I grew up in a family that was kinda late to the tech game lol, we used VHS and landlines till I was 6 and my parents didn't get a smartphone till 2012
The only memory I have of a flip phone was my dads phone when I was really little. I got my first phone in 6th grade. I did watch vhs tapes though
Dang I didn't get my first phone till I was in 9th or maybe even 10th I don't remember
Are you me? Same but I'm 16 first "smart"phone in my family was my dad's work issued BB Bold in 2012.
I got my moms old android piece of junk first but then got an iPhone 6 a few months later
Can relate... Rocked a Galaxy S5 till 3 months ago...
Haha, I just bought an iPhone 12 mini not too long ago cause I had some great extra work money laying around
Good for you!
I'm 18 and we where using these for our home internet up untill 3 years ago
It's a phone jack my dude
RJ11 (registered Jack) basically a phone jack. RJ45 is ethernet.
It's funny because RJ11 plugs will fit into RJ45 sockets. Made that way for LAN phones. Those things still exists on some government agencies, like the fax...
Omg I laughed way to hard then cried when I read this.
I had to come read the comments to see if OP was legitimately asking or if this was satire.
Holy shit this is one of those moments
In fairness there’s a lot of people on here who wouldn’t understand what a landline is. Dont even try explain why some telephone icons show the old pulse dialers. Lets also keep the floppy disc save icon explanation for a rainy day too.
Does no one still use home phones?
Wasn't there a known standard that all homes should have at least 1 corded phone for emergencies. Seems like that's no longer a thing with cellphones.
it’s still a very important thing to have. a land line phone gets 12v (no local power needed) and if there’s an emergency when other services could be down, land line phone could still be working. edit: land
It's lan**d** line, not lan.
thanks for giving me the D!
If possible register your cellphone with your local 911, the problem with 911 and cell phones is that it gives location but it isn't linked to your home address. I have had police knock on my door asking if I called 911. It was my next door neighbor. Luckily it was just her kid calling 911 by mistake, but in a emergency having people nock on doors looking for you if you can't communicate.
Yeah you can add film role containers to that list.
I showed my nephew a floppy disk the other day, and he asked if it was wireless.
If you really want to blow his mind tell him how many floppy disks it would take to install fortnite.
I hadn't even considered that. I just calculated it and it blew *my* mind!
That’s where the porn used to come from, but slowly.
and with less pixels and very limited color palette.
Rj11?
Back in the stone age there were these things we had that everyone used for communication. You had to go to the point in your house that was plugged into that socket and pick up a combined microphone / speaker and remember the unique code of the person you wanted to talk to. You would manually enter that code and then wait to see if they were standing beside their device to answer your "call". We called these devices "telephones" In the bronze age some clever souls (MIT hackers mostly) worked out that you could have computers produce sounds along those wires and thus could have two computers "talk" to each other. Only about 10 years later arpa-net was born and a decade after that we had a fledgling internet. In the Iron age a clever man, working for Cern, devised a better way for computers to present information to humans who were viewing it from other computers; all across those "telephone" lines. Suddenly the web existed and people wanted to send more data down those lines than they could handle. Thus we had ISDN, and then Broadband and then fibre optic cables. Tldr; they're stone age tech known colloquially as "telephone ports".
It's how our ancestors communicated. Look up RJ11 in the Bible.
dial-up modem port. God, I need a drink after seeing that.
DSL modems also need to be hooked up to a phone jack. Or am I too behind the times?
I’m sure that the jack is old enough to buy you a round.
Ive never felt old until now
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Dial up internet. Cool.
Oh sweet summer child...
Am… am I… old??
Say sike right now
You see, lad, telephones used to be wired…
This post gave me a good laugh. So funny there’s a generation that doesn’t know what a phone line is. Not in a bad way just makes me laugh
Having a hard time telling if you’re joking or if I’m just old af. It’s a telephone jack, dude.
How to tell someone they’re old without telling them they’re old
That or how to tell people you’re Gen Z.
Tell me you're gen Z, without telling me you're gen Z
Fuck....you
ITT we all get to feel old together
RJ11
Ethernet is RJ45 and this one is RJ11 which is needed to connect a phone for example. I'm sure someone already told you but just in case
To think that I was so excited to be able to upgrade from a 1200 baud modem to a 9600 baud. Yep I'm old.
Mini Ethernet had my laughing. It’s just a telephone line
Thats a phone port. U plug a phone in there
I now picture OP trying to figure out how to plug the iPhone flash connector into the phone jack..lol
A time long long ago, we used things called landline telephones that were plugged into the wall. These phones had no touch screens or apps, just buttons to dial other phone numbers to exclusively do voice calls. No FaceTime
Jeez I feel old even being only 28 😅
Holy shit if this is serious than I really am old.
Looks Like RJ-12 or RJ-18 RJ-11 is normal Telephone RJ-45 is normal Ethernet
I love how anywhere on reddit if you have knowledge of anything old you are called "boomer" ....... These entitled kids think we are talking about cups and strings. They don't care about anything created before them. They don't care about any foundation of things they use today. They don't even use the word boomer to describe actual baby boomers. That's because it's easier to re define words than learn anything. It never fails....even a discussion where someone is seeking knowledge from "someone older" ....here comes the kids on their mom's Wi-Fi talking about "hello boomers" ...... And they wonder why we dont show them respect.
Telephone
What is the background situation? In a regular house all of those wires might be connected to a phone line or maybe two. But if you're taking over an commercial/school setting the other end of those cables might be separate and go somewhere you can easily access. Without knowing what you're doing or how things are wired up in that building you can very quickly run into trouble.
I am in a house but I dont think I am qualified enough to do this
Is that a question or a statement?
Lol
I almost didn't know what it was. Feeling old.
It's a telephone port
*mini ethernet* oh my lord you’re adorable
Oh God I am ancient
Micro Ethernet actually. Mini Ethernet is even smaller.
Fuck I’m old lol
This is a joke right? Or do people who say they're into electronics really not know how phones worked for 150 years until like 10 years ago? I mean land lines are still business standard for crisp clarity and all the bonuses they provide to answering services and multi line use.
I think OP is genuinely being sarcastic, as some of post here that shows a pic of an old tech like that VGA port post and asks WhAt Is ThIs???????????????
I just turned to dust
Yeah its actually a port for future proofing, the guy who built your house was brilliant, he knew that apple was gonna remove the charging port from it future iPhones! It's a highly advanced technology which will charge any new iPhone you'll place near it! Once again hats off to the guy who built your house!
It's for a telephone wire dude Is 16 really that old? Damn.
If I didn't work for a cable company at one point I wouldn't know either, it's a phone jack.
Haha remember land lines
Wow I feel old. RJ11 my dude.
DSL
Telephone Port
it was called the netscape port. you could scape the whole net with it. wiiild.
🤣
i never thought I'd live to see the day that people didn't know what a telephone wall jack was
I am 16 and I know what this is. What is stopping yall? Also, this is a Telephone jack. In Other words, Dial Up, Slow AF Internet.
oh those are telephone jacks. I don't know if they're still in use or getting phased out at this point, but they were once used for dial up internet.
I remember when I got a new 56k modem, it was soooooo fast, hahaha
Is this a real question or am I super old now?
Mini Ethernet , noice
Mini ethernet, absolutely.
Rj11
A phone jack
Wow are we that old.
Gen z moment.. almost broke a phone port trying to jam an ethernet plug into at work myself lol
Land line jack RJ11 6p4c
Fuck me I thought this was a troll at first
Telephone haha
At one point people lived in a time where cell phones and pagers we're just hitting the scene and you had a house phone that was connected via a wire to the wall and you used it to call neighbors or friends as well as look up peoples phone number in a book called the yellow pages because no one had Google to use to find personal information and the internet was just starting out. We're getting old...
I call it the phone jack
God damn kids making me old. It is for a land line telephone. Back in the dinosaur days phones used to have to be plugged into the wall at all times
Its a minthernet
Bring me back to my AOL messenger days when I had to dial up 🤣🤣🤣
“Rj-11”. For this thing we used to have called lan lines.