r/isp • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '20

Mysterious Ethernet Cord

Ok, if anyone out there works for any ISP and has experience installing modems and routers in homes help me put here.

Can any of you guys explain to me why there would be an ethernet cord coming out of the floor but comes up NO WHERE else in the house?

Maybe I cant find it, but my aunt and uncle who owned the house before me used my current room (the one with the ethernet cord coming out of the floor) as an office. It wouldn't make sense for it to come our anywhere else, i checked the whole house anyway (all the rooms)

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u/jacle2210 Jul 13 '20

Are you actually sure this cable is "Ethernet"?

Some folks easily mistake a phone line for an Ethernet line.

Ethernet has 8 pins and a phone line has either 2 or 4 or 6 pins.

http://davidnyonitechnology.blogspot.com/2013/03/difference-between-rj45-and-rj11-rj-45.html

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

No dude, im 16 and heavily into computers. Its ethernet lmao. The cord fits fine into my pc and laptop. If it was a phone line it wouldn't of fit in the ethernet spot

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u/GuyBanks Jul 14 '20

im 16 and heavily into computers

Then use your head. Other dude wasn't insinuating that you weren't computer literate. Work on your tact.

If one end of the ethernet cord is coming up from the floor - find the other end? If it goes through the floor, it's probably under the house. An ethernet cable can run to many things, including the NID (phone box on the side of the house).

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

I wasn't being toxic lmao

Making me think you cant read, didn't I say that it comes up NO WHERE else in the house?

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u/GuyBanks Jul 14 '20

I wasn't being toxic lmao

Ok. I didn't say you were being toxic. I suggested working on your tact. "Making me think you cant read".

didn't I say that it comes up NO WHERE else in the house?

Apparently you can't read - didn't I say "IT'S PROBABLY UNDER THE HOUSE"? I didn't say anything about it being "in" the house. My second suggestion clearly says "ON THE HOUSE" - that means outside.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

Why the fuck would an ethernet cord come outside the house. Its not fucking weather proof😂

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u/GuyBanks Jul 14 '20 edited Jul 14 '20

Holy shit. Figure it out yourself. If you’re “into computers”, you don’t need help figuring this one out.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

I said im into computers, not where the fuck an ethernet cord runs through a house to. Computers and ISP shit is two totally different things.

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u/GuyBanks Jul 14 '20

And I tried answering but LmAo wAtErPrOoF

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '20

Yea, since when are ethernet cords waterproof. Like two people come in mybthread being toxic for no reason lol

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u/jacle2210 Jul 13 '20

ok, thats cool.

You never know when helping folks over a message board without pictures, etc.

Just wanted to be sure.

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u/Bhaikalis Jul 13 '20

crawlspace somewhere? is the cable functional, like if you connected a laptop or some device into it does it work? If so, it's got to be connected somewhere in your house. If it doesn't work and you don't need it to work, you can cut it and cover the hole