Found weird circuit attached to wall, help!!

[Lynks]

Anyone know what this is? It's connected to the wall behind the couch. Never seen it in the 10 years I've been in this house.

[RollinLower]

probably the NSA spying on you, are you perhaps the boss of a mexican drug cartell?  /s

 

i've never seen anything like it though, maybe something to do with home security?

[Guest]

Due to the way the connectors look i'm willing to bet it has something to do with your phone line/ethernet

[DocSwag]

That's an Intel iSPY Over 9k! It's gonna spy on you! Get rid of it immediately! Hackers are using it on you! /s

 

 To be honest I don't know.... Looks like something for your power plugs or internet connection.... I see that a wire is sticking out of it.... Do you know what that wire is connected to?

[Lynks]

1 minute ago, DocSwag said:

That's an Intel iSPY Over 9k! It's gonna spy on you! Get rid of it immediately! Hackers are using it on you! /s

 

 To be honest I don't know.... Looks like something for your power plugs or internet connection.... I see that a wire is sticking out of it.... Do you know what that wire is connected to?

The wire just goes into the wall. The kitchen is on the other side....

[xentric]

I have seen things like that back in the day when people use to run speakers throughout the house to their stereo systems. Maybe? Or an old alarm system wiring?

[DocSwag]

3 minutes ago, Lynks said:

The wire just goes into the wall. The kitchen is on the other side....

That's weird.....

 

THEN TAKE DOWN THE WHOLE GODDAMN WALL TO FIGURE IT OUT!!!

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Honestly I have no idea. Maybe look for a serial number or something on the back and google it?!?

 

[Guest]

The colors roughly match the colors used on RJ11 twisted pairs. Prob used for a phone line.

[Lynks]

1 minute ago, xentric said:

I have seen things like that back in the day when people use to run speakers throughout the house to their stereo systems. Maybe? Or an old alarm system wiring?

I doubt it's any of those.. If it is an old alarm wiring system why does it need to be exposed?

[Lynks]

1 minute ago, Lord_Doge said:

The colors roughly match the colors used on RJ11 twisted pairs. Prob used for a phone line.

I belive all the phone line wiring is done on another floor. This is right behind the couch in my living room.

[Lynks]

3 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

That's weird.....

 

THEN TAKE DOWN THE WHOLE GODDAMN WALL TO FIGURE IT OUT!!!

I'm actually tempted to cut it out....

[TetraSky]

Could just be some old legacy connector for a phoneline.

[KaminKevCrew]

As someone who has recently had two houses remodeled, and had those panels dealt with, they're the panels that are used to connect phone line. In my case, they were (stupidly) used in place of a switch for the ethernet wiring. 

 

Anyway, they basically bridge all of the wires together (you know how if you have more than one phone in a house, you can have multiple people answer, and have everyone talking? Yeah, they're the things that make that happen). 

 

It's nothing to worry about, but it's also totally useless if you're not using it. No reason to keep it. 

[You_are_a_cunt]

Looks like a splitter to me. Either phone or ethernet

[KaminKevCrew]

59 minutes ago, revsilverspine said:

Looks like a splitter to me. Either phone or ethernet

You can hook up an ethernet cable to it, but that's a totally useless thing to do, since you can't actually split ethernet without some kind of switch.

[You_are_a_cunt]

3 minutes ago, KaminKevCrew said:

You can hook up an ethernet cable to it, but that's a totally useless thing to do, since you can't actually split ethernet without some kind of switch.

Well you CAN technically run two connections on the same cable if you use only half the pairs (4+4). Also you can run two phone lines over the same CAT cable

[KuJoe]

According to the Google it looks like it has to do with the phone/DSL. Based on a German forum (and Google Translate) it's a splitter for a POTS line.

[KaminKevCrew]

45 minutes ago, revsilverspine said:

Well you CAN technically run two connections on the same cable if you use only half the pairs (4+4). Also you can run two phone lines over the same CAT cable

Not if you're running gigabit. Also, I wasn't talking about phone signals. I was talking about internet/ethernet. I'm well aware of what you can do with phone lines. 

 

Besides, all I was trying to do was explain what the board it. The technicalities don't really matter. Hell, if you want to get really technical, you could run 7 different signals through ethernet, assuming you made the 8th wire a common ground. And if you want to get REALLY technical, we could start talking about how since ethernet is rated for up to 125 megahertz, we could theoretically run a signal at varying frequencies all the way up to 125. In that case, we could realistically get tens or hundreds, if not thousands of signals across those wires. No need to get technical on this. It's a pretty pointless exercise.

[.spider.]

Looks like a TAE (Phone connector) which is primarily used in Luxembourg and Germany. 

But the label and color of the cable don't match otherwise the resistor and diode seem to match the TAE specifications.

The ports should be labeled as

 La Lb W E b2 a2

 

One cable should be connected to La and one to Lb.

Also do not try to plug it into an Ethernet port because there are 70-110V on phone lines.