I believe four of the houses ethernet ports lead here.
It's for phones, not internet.
They use the same cable, and just wire up like 3 of the wires. it's usually so you can have multiple phone lines in a house.
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It's for any twisted pair termination, whether pots or ethernet
This is the correct answer. RJ12, not RJ45. :)
It's a Highband. Looks like it's a commscope or ADC. It's a valid way of getting further down the road when somebody can't measure.
Really shit ethernet splicing / coupling. Unless you don't have ethernet jacks anywhere, then the cables go to phone jacks that can be converted to ethernet jacks. If you convert them or already have ethernet jacks, I'd get these connections redone properly. The easiest way to do this would be to terminate them with an RJ45 connector and use cable couplers to connect them together.
Rig job. That's a rig job right there.
But if it works.....
Krone block being used as a splice.
I can’t believe people
It’s a celling beam. It provided structural support to your roof.
An abomination
Well, aint much of a picture to really get a good idea. But that’s a punchdown block for CAT5. My guess would be it was used to extend a run, or repair a run that got cut- just a really ugly job of it. Looks like there’s a white wire there as well at the edge of the photo, tho…so 🤷 Gonna need some better pictures if you want a good answer.
It's called a 66 block. It's used in the telephony system as "punch down." This is where you centralize all the cabling for the building. You run all the internal cables to this, then have one external line for egress.
Got a word from my friend who's a sparky, that if I want, I can attatch RJ45 plugs on the ends of the cables running into the junction and then run the cables down my wall into a switch in my office. Would that work?
Yep, just make sure to check the other ends pairs are ordered correctly and match the order when you crimp and add plugs.
Honestly though, if there's no fault or degradation in connectivity already, I wouldn't bother. A switch just adds a new potential (powered) point of failure.
That's absolutely fair.
The initial reason why I was up there was because I remember there already being a network switch but I believe once we upgraded to fiber many years ago, it has been changed to this setup in the photo.
I want to play around with homelab gear and some home networking as it's becoming a hobby of mine. Sending the cables down into my office so I can manage a more hands on setup; especially for a server, NAS and security cameras.
Might want to test the cables, one of them looks rough and slightly bent, also if I you terminate again, make sure to only have 1/4” or less exposed for crosstalk issues.
Last time someone posted a question like this, a lot of smooth brains on here said it was a Russian botnet and the person who installed it was a Russian agent.
Wild shit
Lmao.
It’s a highband join strip perfectly acceptable to join cat 5/6. Would’ve been better to mount it in a box con 201/301 enclosure though.
It’s crazy how many people in here are generally clueless. “Some redneck cable splice”
whatever it is dont let tsa find that in your luggage.
put it in your ex luggage
👮♂️🤡🤡
That piece of wood is the internet
It's obviously not wifi. Look at the wires.
It's whatever you want it to be, Dorothy.
Tape, wood and some wires attached to plastic
This one predates the wireless version debuted at reynholm industries in 2008
Jank.
Krone block demarc
Getto patch panel
A candy present for a lumberjack?
An awful picture that's what you took in your attic lol
It looks like electrical tape …no need to thank me
I would call it a Temporary permanent fix.
It’s a block of wood…
Wire tap. They are listening.
If that's what they spliced it with, it was wired for phone and probably won't work for ethernet. It's possible to run 10Mbps ethernet over ancient cat3 wiring, but it still needs to be connected properly. If all four outlets meet in one spot, they can just be wired together for phone but would need a switch for ethernet. And you typically don't want to have the switch up in the attic.
If feasible, I'd rip it out and replace with modern stuff (Cat6a or thereabouts), routing all the outlets to somewhere a switch can reasonably be located. If the wiring is cat 5 or better it would probably work if you replaced any such joints with a proper "network" one (may not do gigabit, but probably 100Mbit), but it would still be kinda iffy.
Someone’s losing their low voltage license. Lol
Something Jim found at the flea market I'd guess
Looks possessed. Burn it.
Patch block.
Krone block.