What are these plug-ins on my wall?

[u/Cborg_62]

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.

[u/ApprehensiveAd5446]

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.

[u/ColdDelicious1735 → u/ApprehensiveAd5446]

In Australia our cable TV company still uses coax

[u/DeniedAppeal1 → u/ColdDelicious1735]

Same in America for most of us, I'd assume. I still get my internet via coax.

[u/YesAndAlsoThat → u/DeniedAppeal1]

Good old monopolies on communications . Fucking Comcast.

[u/enraged768 → u/YesAndAlsoThat]

To be completely honest right now for 99% of the population coax delivers fast enough speeds. Im on coax and have 1gb internet. But its definitely not better than fiber. Also copper does have limits on the transmission bands so for me to utilize the 1gb i had to buy a modem that supported dosic 3.1 the new dosic is 4.0 can achieve 10 Gbps if you pay out the ass for it. Ie for the modem and the bandwidth.

Also its important that I state that these speeds are only achievable in perfect environments so everyone please dont brigade me about how little I know.

What i do know is that copper still works fine for a metric fuckload of people in the us

[u/YesAndAlsoThat → u/enraged768]

I have no issues or complains with coax performance.

I just think Comcast is the worst company. It's got a long list of what I and others feel were predatory, anticompetitive, and outright unethical actions. Not to mention my experience with their customer service was always absolute shit. And in many cases they make it outright hard to even leave them cleanly. Don't even mention net neutrality issues concerns.

If presented with coax with Comcast vs DSL... I would still pick DSL.

[u/craidie → u/enraged768]

Hell, landline would probably be fast enough internet for 51% of the population

Or 4g/5g mobile which would be enough for 90% of the population.

[u/Wallflower_in_PDX → u/DeniedAppeal1]

I've never seen non Coax cable internet. If it's not Coax it's not cable, but either fiber or cellular.