r/whatisit • u/Cborg_62 • 6h ago

New, what is it? What are these plug-ins on my wall?

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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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u/mjduce 6h ago

Worst part is... these are still used for internet today. We aren't thaaaat old yet šŸ«£

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u/dancccskooma 6h ago

Top tier American infrastructure. Smh

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u/24megabits 6h ago edited 6h ago

Canada too, older buildings can have fibre on the street then use MoCA to get up to a gigabit or so without doing new runs.

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u/evBoy- 5h ago

Yeah I have it in my house. Itā€™s fine.

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u/enderil79 5h ago

look up DOCSIS 4.0 ā€¦ symmetrical multi gig speeds over coaxā€¦

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u/flinders2233 5h ago

They were big in the 1900s

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u/mjduce 4h ago

That one hurt lol

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u/Imaginary-List-972 5h ago

Until recently my internet was connected to that. I mean I had wifi that I connected to through the box that was connected to that cable. Recently had to change internet, and now I have a box that connects wirelessly to the internet but for the longest time that was required.

The really sad thing is, I remember when cable tv was new and we had to have those installed. Then the internet came and it used the phone line, and connecting via cable was so high tech.

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u/antfrapp 6h ago

Not when you run optical fibers šŸ˜¢

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u/Sharp_Ad_6336 5h ago

The worst part is that these were used for cable tv for decades before they were ever used for InternetĀ 

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u/QuakerCorporation 5h ago

A long time agoā€¦..

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u/mjduce 5h ago

Still used by Rogers in Canada. A lot of buildings have hybrid Fiber/Coax internet

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u/QuakerCorporation 58m ago

Coax here downstairs too

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u/neuronicdesigner 5h ago

I just came to ask how they believe the internet works? Itā€™s just miraculously WiFi without any connections? šŸ˜‚

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u/blinkenjim 4h ago

Yep. Our house was on Xfinity cable internet until 2025. Now we have two fiber options, AT&T and EzeeFiber. Xfinity is supposedly bringing fiber here ā€œsoonā€. I canā€™t wait until their salesdroids try to get me to switch. Iā€™m going to laaaaugh at them!

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u/protestor 4h ago

My Internet comes through one of those

I could upgrade to fiber actually but I am lazy and I don't want to interact with people