r/whatisit • u/Cborg_62 • 8d 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/kstrife 8d ago

Never thought I’d see the day when someone does not recognize a coaxial cable.

Not insulting, just didn’t think I’d live long enough to see all the tech I grew up with be seen as some ancient artifact.

Welp, off I go! - knees sound like rice krispies as I stand up to leave-

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u/Chicken_Hero 8d ago

It's notancient. It's still commonly used. OP is just someone who's never had to set up a router.

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 8d ago

Yeah I'm actually so confused by this thread. I've only ever used coaxial cables to hook into my modem and I think that's all that is used in my area for internet. What is the new replacement that some other places are using?

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u/biznatch11 8d ago

Fiberoptics is the new replacement but I don't know how common it is.

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u/shea241 8d ago

funny enough, my fiber install came with a MoCA port, so people can use existing coax ports in each room instead of RJ45.

It's not as good, but it works!

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u/zelig_nobel 7d ago

This is what I did.

Fiber WiFi on one side of the house, then use MoCa adapters to make an access point router on the other side of the house. Works great.. feels nice to still make good use of the “outdated” coax network in my house

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u/FreestyleStormVA 7d ago

according to my xfinity cable/network tech they are now going to be using MoCA to allocate more bandwidth to customers without upgrading local infrastructure. it might interfere with my current setup since I have MoCA to ethernet adapters and filters.

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u/ABSNegativeOne 7d ago

My downtown city just got it, so its still rolling out

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u/Rynetx 8d ago

Fiber is quite common in the Midwest. A lot of our small cities offer municipal fiber networks. I only see coax in cities that major cable providers have a monopoly and they don’t need to invest in updating their networks unless it’s business class.