Hey all! We just moved into an older apartment and I noticed this three point wall socket, what exactly is this used for? I have never seen it before. ‘Funny’ enough, some sockets are grounded, some are not.
In any case thanks if anybody knows what this is.
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Phone
It’s an old telephone socket
Like others said it used to be phone landline, but nowadays it is almost exclusively used for *DSL-internet -connections.
Telephone/wifi
Phone line. You can also connect internet here if you have the right router.
Landline
its for the family fork
Telephone socket. Depending on where you live and if you’ve upgraded your internet to fiber you might be able to use it, if you get a landline subscription and an old phone.
Like telephone I think our very fast internet connects there like glass fiber shit
Regarding the grounding, IIRC back in the day it used to be quite common to only ground kitchen and/or bathroom sockets, and leave the rest ungrounded. They probably didn’t think it was worth it to ground areas where water is not used.
puhelinpiste
Oh my sweet summerchild… 👴🏻
😮
Normal socket, you just appear to have surprised it by taking a picture.
Rude.
trolli
It could be the hotline to the Washington:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%E2%80%93Washington_hotline
Um sir that’s a bowling ball
In ancient times people used to plug things that required a phone line into it.
It’s for a telephone (but it’s useless now, because nobody uses old fashioned telephones anymore).
landline phone
Puhelin pistoke
It is suprised
To add to this why don’t Finnish wall sockets have on and off switches? I saw a cleaner lady one time get zapped as she pulled out her vacuum plug from the wall. The wall socket was dodgy looking to be fair but if theyre not off when you pull it ou it’s a bit dangerous right or is there something I am missing?
Its a emoji 😮
Until this post I thought everyone uses one of these for their internet 😬 where else would I plug in my modem?
It is for old dial up phone or modem
A postmodern interpretation of Munch’s The Scream
Assisted suicide.
😯 <- this.
Its an old socket, previously use for telephone, but currently a lot of old apartments use these for broadband internet. Found out the hard way when I moved to a place and couldn’t find the ethernet port for internet. Contacted the internet provider (Telia) and they said that I would need a special router for it to work. Telia sells for 100€ but you can find used ones for half the price on Tori
I moved to a new house in April this year. Telia sent me a modem for my broadband with a three pin adapter that plugs into this socket. It works perfectly. Modem was 70€ from Telia
Edited for spelling
Telephone Socket for ADSL/ADSL+ or VDSL/xDSL connection. Most apartment houses uses VDSL technology today. Speed should be about 100/50 Mb/s. Special router is required and your internet provider sell them.
Jonnet ei tiedä 🤣
Is it a hand plane?
What’s the other 2 socket on the right
Its a face
How do you feel about this RJ-45 installation? Maybe the cost of wiring was too much to bring it down? On the bright side, it has no connection whatsoever. My VDSL still comes from the three holed mystery socket and I have no idea why the RJ-45 has even been installed. 😀
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Fin here. I have no idea
It’s for a JEM-cable . Jonnet Ei Muista
Fuck i Will never forget stepping on The other end of that 🤯
Bruh never thought I’d run across a cat system corp post in the wild on this sub. Love your music!
It’s a plug for the Boomer phones
That is polish glory holes
its where we can get connection with the ufos
i like to call there every now and then when i feel lonely they are pretty kind always just asked one to have coffee with me. he said may come next week. just for sure cleaned my house and got new clothes. hope he comes.
i have been looking for that sock! glad you found it just hope i find the pair. i have four socks so you are lucky to find the third