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.
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.
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.
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.
