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Nailed it. These are 'Boy George connectors'. What schizznick shows is a common 4Pin+2ground 10mbit (Have seen it used for two telephone connections) It has been used for 100mbit 4pairs using all 8 connection pins. (But the default IBM plug requires modificatio to do that). But your university uses the even more rarer of the rarest a pure 8pin+ground 100mbit connector. Outside of a few old structure in brussel i haven't seen any of these being used anywhere! And last i knew of company i worked for. The 4pin connector they have in stock gets sold for over €500 a piece. The 8pin i have never seen the price the offered but i know it nearly always defaulted to replacing cables. So maybe your univercity has a nice box of old stock and is using it as a security measure for there unmanaged and outdated networking equipment.

Was searching for network stuff and found this topic. Let me show you my little chaos of a network. (At least i always kept a well organized schematic over the years, see history) Everything besides a few things everything is 1Gbit. - IP-Camera's are 100mbit PEO or Power-injector. - UPS's are 100mbit - Denkovi relay controler is 10mbit. Cables - All runs are Cat5e as most runs in the house where done around 2003~2004. - All runs to IP-Camera's are the same Cat5e. - Everything else is either Cat6a with Keystone termination or premade cat6 UTP/SF patch cables. - All cables in patch panels are color coded for usage. I don't watch cable TV that often so i have no coax, besides the 3 meters from tv to the coax splitter. Have no need for phone in my office because cellphones.. The space between Office+Garage and the House is about 8 meters of lovely concrete pavement/driveway. - I tried and used Powerline connection.. The power cable between them is 4mm 3 phase. Best speed about 210mbit, average 60mbit. - I tried outdoor UTP/STP with cable bridge protection. It did not last long, rodents eating my cable, and i cheaped out on the bridge so slowly cursing a regular cat6 cable. - Finally used the same Cable bridge with pre-made load-bearing fiber cable. It is only OM1 but proof of concept how to make it work. In the racks, almost all servers are off.. Only two are running 24/7. Most of the un-used servers are hooked up to power management, so; they are completely powerless. My entire network with this house has a long and annoying history of convenience, ability, and reliability. . See a quick history tour here Now last week my OPNsense router fried itself. (Temp replaced with MikroTik Routerboard) Now looking for new hardware for router and looking around for starting on 10Gbit upgrade..