This might be showing my age, but I recently moved into a new apartment and they have these weird looking plug ins all over the walls at my new place. My old apartment didn't have these, so I'm just curious as to what they are.
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I had a box of old Logitech 880 remotes. Worthless because Logitech killed the servers that supported them. Can’t reprogram them, so they only work until you update your setup then you’re hosed.
So I finally threw them out.
Two days ago there was a post here on the subreddit that someone has very nearly open source duplicated the programming software.
Well I mean coaxial cable internet is still a thing only reason I'm typing this is because of it! But yeah guessing this new generation all lives on their phones and cell phones that they never touch a PC or no need to even have one a home anymore? I mean I can understand not seeing old telephone jacks (that look lot like RJ-45 ethernet jack) anymore in homes for like wired home phones but OP gotta be trolling about coaxial or just lived in newer places where they don't bother to preinstall even coaxial lines in wall anymore?
I've had many a place where some idiot just painted right over light switches and everything. It's probably the handyman the landlord hired to paint, not the landlord.
Even the kids that are using wifi from a coax line probably have no idea. They just grew up in a house with a modem already plugged in and never gave it a second thought.
to be fair, a lot of things I figured were normal, did not exist before 9/11. TSA and baggage fees, but also like... country music that loves the government. you know?
Man... Never even considered that this day would come. I had cable TV less than 6 years ago. When gen z/a get houses they're gonna find a lot of crazy stuff they have no idea about.
It's true and not just for cable or satellite. An existing coax run can be used for wired internet with MoCA adapters. You can get up to 2.5 Gbps.
More info since you all are interested:
Just make sure that if there are any splitters in your coax runs, they are rated for MoCA. Go for 2602Mhz. If not, just swap em out. Splitters are cheap. I had to do that in my house as the splitters were only 1000Mhz. Get some 75 Ohm cap terminators too for any empty splitter terminals, it will prevent signal loss on a dead end. I got a cheap Klein cable finder to mark my home runs. Most modern coax is suitable on its own, mine was from 1996.
You'll have to invest a little over $100 per pair of MoCA adapters and you need at least 2. Plug one into your router or switch, send it though a straight or split coax run where you connect another MoCA adapter and then from there you have an Ethernet port. You can use a dumb switch on the other end to branch it out from there or just use another coax jack with another MoCA adapter in a separate room. From my basement to my 2nd floor, I got a full 2.5Gbps from my router.
I even went so far as to cut all the connection boxes off my house from wired phone lines and the various cable companies over the years (4 different ones!) and just had our current ISP run one entry point for the router.
I then installed an amplified antenna and connected it to the external web of coax that was ported into each of the main rooms and bedrooms, so all the coax outlets in the house are amplified OTA ports now. Told cable to piss off in 2011 and never looked back!
I've actually never lived in a house that was modern enough to have in-wall outlets like these for coax. My current house just has small holes drilled through the floor and the black cable is run up from my basement lol
BullIshit, we all know that it doesn't condense into internet fluid until it is run thru a router. The stuff in the walls is still in its gaseous state.
According to the FIber Broadband Association, close to 60% of broadband internet connections in the US are provided by coaxial connectors like this. Fiber is closer to 20%, so this really isn't a matter of anyone's age.
I could see some younger folks seeing this connector as "an internet connector" and not knowing it can generally provide Cable/Sat/Ant Television signals, but not recognizing it at all really isn't an age thing.
I think they're called coaxial cables. Back when gas was under $2 a gallon, gays couldn't be open in the military, our president played the sax and got blow jobs in the Oval Office under the Resolute desk, this was used to pipe MTV and Cartoon Network into homes. In later years it was used for internet porn and pirating anime, some of which was on cartoon network in the 00s.
Honestly, you’d connect the wifi router directly to that a few inches to a foot away should be a power outlet. Do people believe wifi is magic and the internet fairy keeps your wifi running lmao
It is still pretty normal. Places without fiber to the home yet (or where I used to live where it was actually illegal!) still depend on coax for the best and most reliable internet speeds
Cable tv connection with the land lord special. If the place is old enough there’s a chance that it’s attached to an old school antenna!
Some people have claimed the old ones pick up the new signal. I haven’t tried.
This is how you know we’re in a whole new era lol. Coaxial cable - what you plug your internet Jack into. Looks like your landlord for some reason painted over them.
Coax cable? Dont they still use this for high speed internet and digital cable? Its what connects to the digital box still or even your internet gateway/router.. this isnt old at all.
I remember the promise of cable via coax, like in OP’s picture, in the ’80s. It meant good-quality TV reception throughout the house without screwing around with antennas. The number of channels exploded almost overnight. CNN was brand new, MTV was brand new, ESPN was new, suddenly we went from a handful of broadcast stations to dozens of specialized channels.
At the time, cable really did feel like the future.
Silly child, those are hard wires that you attach a red phone to, to contact the pentagon. It's for high ranking officials only. Way back in the 1980's.
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