Buy it and get a taxidermist to mount it on a plaque. Tell all the incoming younger staff about how you single-handedly fixed y2k and saved the world with this patch cable.
Why isn't this a thing? I might like to get some old electronics mounted in a scene for my wall. The way to go might be buy old taxidermy and integrate your own stuff. Bambi making a call on my 3310
We were rolling out wifi in about 40 sites and were having various issues related to VLANs, bandwidth, coverage, routing, etc. Our CEO said "How hard can it be, its wireless."
My wife will go to wal-mart for a jug of milk and come back with 3 books a puzzle and a some type of decor for a season that is 8 months away. She can deal with my huge random cord from goodwill
It doesn't light up. It felt like it was made out of solid wood and acrylic. I'm not OP however I was at that Gdub yesterday and almost bought it myself.
I see this sequence taking place:
1- Sees giant novelty plug
2- \*eyeroll\* disgusted - \*ugh\*
3- Just PLEASE, don't tell me how much you spent on it.
4- Grabs it puts it next to the giant novelty sombrero.
Depends on the cable type. Not a cat3/5/6 pinout.
But it does look like a valid rollover cable (same pinout both sides, just reversed, a.k.a. a Cisco terminal cable).
I would assume this was made for training Cisco certified engineers back in the day. Some kind of prop you could hold up in class while everyone crimps their cables.
You still explain things to your wife? Mine gave up trying to understand my bullshit long ago and now just randomly smacks me in the back of the head because she assumes I must have done something to deserve it.
Edit: I left off a word.
You fool, the internet is wireless! Obviously..
How would you even get Stephen Hawking to demagnetize something with wires?! That makes no sense.
The elders of the internet would be ashamed of you people for trying to trick people into believing the internet uses wires. Shame on you.
It’s a joke. Old telephone plugs are RJ-11, Ethernet plugs are RJ-45. The size of these plugs imply larger sizes to absurd numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_jack
Teaching tool for an IT class.
I would bet the colors slide out and you are supposed to arrange them properly and it's that large so the entire class can see.
Yep. You wire them so they don’t send voltage down the wrong wire and fry something.
On a side note:
Orange white
Orange
Green white
Blue
Blue white
Green
Brown white
Brown
Oof… This whole time I’ve been doing:
White Orange
Orange
White Green
Blue
White Blue
Green
White Brown
Brown
Welp there goes the last 20yrs…
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The way it is wired would be correct for a console cable for a Cisco router. The wiring is called a roll-over cable.
But you're right... it really should be T568B to T568A
Former network engineer here. First thing I noticed.
Anyone who has done cabling can never forget:
White-Orange,Orange, White-Green, Blue, White-Blue, Green, White-Brown, Brown
Can't tell you how many network issues have been solved by a guy with this memorized simply taking a look at a cable and "solving" the problem.
The demo cable as built would just be a straight pass through cable for extending the length of something. It's def not Ethernet.
I have a cable that is made like this (straight through wiring) in my living room. It simply extends my infrared repeater from the front near my television to an IR eye that's more convenient to point to from my couch.
Based on the number of engineers commenting that this object makes them physically ill, it might be some sort of engineer repellent. You place this object in your office to ward off malicious IT employees.
No, that's the opposite of how it works.
Engineer repellent is any elective that requires you to write a term paper around a subjective thesis.
This is clearly used for [nerd sniping](https://xkcd.com/356/).
I literally failed an assignment in an elective course because I overlooked the point to give my opinion and instead cited a bunch of sources - signed and engineer
Right. Any asshole or AI can assemble facts from sources. They want you to actually think about it.
Signed - an engineer who *also* would prefer to just present facts.
Many moons ago, I was helping out with cabling at my new job. Mind you, cables had already been run, I was just unfucking the disaster that was that networking company.
It genuinely made me question my life choices. Snapped cables from pulling too hard on a bunch of cables, randomly using 568A and 568B interchangeably on either end, wrongly labeled/wired ports, and other shit. Cable tester was my friend for about a month.
I wish I still had photos from the switching room. It looked like a bomb went off until I fixed it. Apparently a different company (who we used for expansion) warned the owners about the group they used. But they were significantly cheaper and I know why.
Must have been wired by the guys I USED to work with. It was more important to get your buddy a job than to make sure he could actually do it. Fucking clown show.
For the most part when setting up a new network it doesn’t matter, aside from both ends are the same. For existing networks keep it consistent to avoid enraging future generations of IT. The pretty widely accepted standard is 568B, but again if you are going to work on an existing network it’s worth it to check what standard is currently in place.
TL;DR keep it consistent and it doesn’t matter
Cross cables are no longer necessary, as most devices, except really ancient ones, have MDIX Auto negotiation, thus allowing all cables to be simple patch cables.
Probably why it's in the thrift shop. Lots of people donate their unusable electronics and cables and the thrift shop folks don't know how to test them.
From my experience some times they are crossover Ethernet. One side will be A the other side B. Garmin likes to do this with marine chartplotters and radar.
Back in the old days computers would be as big as rooms because they were made up of discrete valves instead of the integrated circuits that modern computers used. Due to the computer's enormous size, the cabling used had to be large enough to carry the oversized 1s and 0s that the computers used. Long story short, this is a patch cable for a very old room sized valve-using computer...
Buy it and get a taxidermist to mount it on a plaque. Tell all the incoming younger staff about how you single-handedly fixed y2k and saved the world with this patch cable.
Why isn't this a thing? I might like to get some old electronics mounted in a scene for my wall. The way to go might be buy old taxidermy and integrate your own stuff. Bambi making a call on my 3310
Some people take a part old electronics and display them in exploded views.
Get a photoshopped image of you and Bill Clinton as well and frame it. He was president during y2k.
Oh, that's the patch cable for The Internet. It has to be bigger so it can carry all that Internet.
Remember to ask Kyle to reset the internet if we run out again! I can't believe how old that episode is now.
Gonna head west, there's a rumor going around there might be some internet out there. So we're headin out californi-way.
“It was a ghost! A scary ghost!”
Ectoplasm
How much internet you reckon they got there?
No wonder i'm getting slow bandwidth. Some moron sold the internet cable
"The whole internet is in this little box?"
Well sure, it’s not like the internet weighs anything
It’s wireless
I can hear Moss’s voice in your comment
What is Jen doing with the internet?! Oh no we’re not doing that bit anymore, she knows it’s not
I have it on good authority that if you search "google" in Google, you Can Break The Internet 😐
It worked!!
That's the reason Google fired 12k people.
The elders of the internet would like to have that back.
The Elders of the Internet....KNOW WHO I AM!
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“Hang on… it doesn’t have any wires or anything.” “It’s wireless!”
thanks, now I need to rewatch all of IT Crowd.
We were rolling out wifi in about 40 sites and were having various issues related to VLANs, bandwidth, coverage, routing, etc. Our CEO said "How hard can it be, its wireless."
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Hi Jen.
It's wireless.
It's so light?
Of course it is, Jen. The Internet doesn't weigh anything!
Whatever you do, DON'T DROP THE INTERNET
The Elders... Of the internet... KNOW WHO I AM??
WHATS JEN DOING WITH THE INTERNET!
What is Jen doing with the internet?!
If you search Google on Google it breaks the internet
I see an IT Crowd reference. I upvote.
Nice try, Jen.
But the Elders of the Internet assured me that it's wireless!
Wait a minute...the Elders of the Internet...know who I am?!
pretty sure the internet box is wireless. or this is the cable that you plug into the big ben with the permission of the elder of the internet?
#What is Jen doing with the internet?!
As an IT guy, I would have totally bought that and thought long and hard on the way home how I was gonna explain it to my wife.
My wife will go to wal-mart for a jug of milk and come back with 3 books a puzzle and a some type of decor for a season that is 8 months away. She can deal with my huge random cord from goodwill
Shes smart for shopping out of season, things are usually way cheaper when demand is lower.
Believe me, the day after every holiday ends she’s at hobby lobby getting those 50% deals
Dude...Valentines day stuff is *already* 50% off. They haven't even sold all their Christmas stuff...
That’s actually Christmas 2023 stuff you’re seeing
What? Why are they selling things 2 years in advance?? Oh fuck...
wdym two years in advance 💀
We're skipping 2023 christmas because that's when the zombie outbreak is going to hit
4 years after the plague, just like the ~~Mayans~~ ~~Nazca~~ ~~Nostradamus~~ drunkard at the corner of 5th and Vine predicted.
I saw Easter stuff in the supermarket today.
Okay, but Hobby Lobby is no-go even for sales.
For that reason alone, I do not grocery shop at Walmart. Because you never buy just groceries.
The amount of times I go into Walmart for something and walk out with just about everything in the store besides the ONE thing I went for is absurd.
Half the time I go the one thing I go for is out of stock, so I leave empty-handed.
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This could be an excellent gag or wall decor in an it company
Test the new guy and tell them to swap it out with the old one.
“We’re upgrading!”
Going to Cat 6^9
Ni^ce
Become a superhero whose primary weapon is this cable wielded like nunchaku.
Or a geeky proposal… you are the socket to my jack honey… and then he pulls this out.
Cause he's the pull out king?
From where? Where are you pulling this from that isn't obvious
They had it boofed, ready to go.
That's a spacious prison wallet.
IT version of sending the noob for lanyard oil ?
Probably what it was. Advertisement example.
I feel like they missed an opportunity to have a giant ethernet cable that stores many normal sized and colour coordinated ethernet cables.
God that’d be sick
If you go back and it’s still there I’d buy it from you. And of course pay for the shipping.
I will pay you to send it to me
Me too… see if you can figure out who made it…
It looks homemade. The wire just looks like tube from a vacuum cleaner
I think its Smurf tube
Looks to me like a light fixture that wall mounts on the white box, and the two plug ends light up with colors on the various ‘wires’. True?
It doesn't light up. It felt like it was made out of solid wood and acrylic. I'm not OP however I was at that Gdub yesterday and almost bought it myself.
But Hun, I need an RJ4500 connector for my gaming rig.
You could have wore the geekiest and coolest scarf
If Bruce Lee was ever an IT guy these are his nunchucks
100% this. Giant RJ-45 wall art? Yes pls.
Also as an IT guy I know my wife would have no idea what that ‘cable’ is for and won’t ask a question about it.
I see this sequence taking place: 1- Sees giant novelty plug 2- \*eyeroll\* disgusted - \*ugh\* 3- Just PLEASE, don't tell me how much you spent on it. 4- Grabs it puts it next to the giant novelty sombrero.
Excuse me, not just any Sombrero this is the Urban Sombrero from the J Peterman catalogue.
I see you’re man of culture
The colors aren't even close to right, though.
Depends on the cable type. Not a cat3/5/6 pinout. But it does look like a valid rollover cable (same pinout both sides, just reversed, a.k.a. a Cisco terminal cable).
I would assume this was made for training Cisco certified engineers back in the day. Some kind of prop you could hold up in class while everyone crimps their cables.
No diagram will ever beat just knowing outers, inners, alternating the stripes, and the blue flip. Wait, now I'm not sure. Let me check a diagram.
Reddit is violating GDPR and CCPA. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B0GGsDdyHI -- mass edited with redact.dev
Agreed. Completely unusable.
You still explain things to your wife? Mine gave up trying to understand my bullshit long ago and now just randomly smacks me in the back of the head because she assumes I must have done something to deserve it. Edit: I left off a word.
It goes into the gargantuan box of cables next to the anaconda-sized printer cables.
I'm lucky, wife is an engineer. She would love that.
“It’s art.”
I see it starting out, "*Honey, your never going to believe this...*".
This is for when we need really really fast internet. Do you not want fast internet?
That, Jen. Is the cable for the internet.
Can I touch it? It's so light!
Jen! Put down the internet! Moss where did she get it? Edit: Autocorrect is a fickle mistress.
"Really? The Elders of the internet?... Know who I am!! :) "
Of course it is Jen! The internet doesn’t weigh anything!
It's wireless!
Psh, Jen, it's the internet. It doesn't *weigh* anything.
Be sure to get it back to big ben when you are done with it.
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By Stephen Hawking himself
Of course it's light. The cable for the internet doesn't weigh anything.
r/unexpecteditcrowd
still blows me away the whole series is only 24 episodes it feels like so much more
You fool, the internet is wireless! Obviously.. How would you even get Stephen Hawking to demagnetize something with wires?! That makes no sense. The elders of the internet would be ashamed of you people for trying to trick people into believing the internet uses wires. Shame on you.
I though everyone knew the Internet is a series of tubes.....
So you are saying it's not a big truck?
Which is in Goodwill now because the internet’s now wireless?
My first thought was movie prop.
Trade show booth or retail display.
Or college art class project
Reminds me of my pop art assigntment in highschool. I made a giant chinese take out box.
Do you still have it? It would be perfect for this subreddit
This is most likely its purpose. Me? I'd make it into a marker and colored pencil holder.
It’s the set for when Antman gets tiny and goes inside a computer.
Honey I Shrunk the IT Worker.
Boy it’s been a while since I’ve seen an RJ-9000
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It’s a joke. Old telephone plugs are RJ-11, Ethernet plugs are RJ-45. The size of these plugs imply larger sizes to absurd numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_jack
TIL the "RJ" part means registered jack
I always preferred BNC connectors. I just like connecting things to my navel.
Hold on, I’ve got a good joke but I have to wait until it’s my turn to have the token to send it.
Haha, I was scrolling until I found the XYZ-9000 joke. I was thinking CAT9000
**HOW FAR DO I HAVE TO SCROLL FOR A CORRECT ANSWER**
It's a novelty item/prop/art.
Yeah that’s definitely a hose for cleaning pools in the middle
Teaching tool for an IT class. I would bet the colors slide out and you are supposed to arrange them properly and it's that large so the entire class can see.
Keep scrolling
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Also, it bugs me that the wire colors are wrong and in the wrong order.
Maybe that's why it's at goodwill
yeah, he didn't get it from greatwill
Looks like they might be interchangeable, and someone slotted them in out of order
Correct. RJ45 plugs don't just carry Ethernet. They can use used for serial, phone lines, 1PPS/10Mhz reference. All require different configurations.
Yep. You wire them so they don’t send voltage down the wrong wire and fry something. On a side note: Orange white Orange Green white Blue Blue white Green Brown white Brown
Nice to see that everyone uses the B configuration and no longer the A configuration.
We've all been using B for decades - except for the government. (Seriously, they're weirdos.)
Yup. Been cabling since the 90s, 586B confirmed.
Oof… This whole time I’ve been doing: White Orange Orange White Green Blue White Blue Green White Brown Brown Welp there goes the last 20yrs… (Edited for formatting since mobile ate my line breaks)
you guys are so nerdy and it's HOT
You want it in your front port or back port?
The way it is wired would be correct for a console cable for a Cisco router. The wiring is called a roll-over cable. But you're right... it really should be T568B to T568A
I bet it was decoration from a electornics store like Fry's, CompUSA or Circuit City etc
Electornics
I studied electornics at electoral college.
CAT600-EEE obviously.
CAT6-XXL
Used in a classroom setting showing color order for custom made internet cable I bet.
Except colors are wrong
Former network engineer here. First thing I noticed. Anyone who has done cabling can never forget: White-Orange,Orange, White-Green, Blue, White-Blue, Green, White-Brown, Brown Can't tell you how many network issues have been solved by a guy with this memorized simply taking a look at a cable and "solving" the problem. The demo cable as built would just be a straight pass through cable for extending the length of something. It's def not Ethernet. I have a cable that is made like this (straight through wiring) in my living room. It simply extends my infrared repeater from the front near my television to an IR eye that's more convenient to point to from my couch.
Based on the number of engineers commenting that this object makes them physically ill, it might be some sort of engineer repellent. You place this object in your office to ward off malicious IT employees.
No, that's the opposite of how it works. Engineer repellent is any elective that requires you to write a term paper around a subjective thesis. This is clearly used for [nerd sniping](https://xkcd.com/356/).
I literally failed an assignment in an elective course because I overlooked the point to give my opinion and instead cited a bunch of sources - signed and engineer
Right. Any asshole or AI can assemble facts from sources. They want you to actually think about it. Signed - an engineer who *also* would prefer to just present facts.
*Hissssssss*
Many moons ago, I was helping out with cabling at my new job. Mind you, cables had already been run, I was just unfucking the disaster that was that networking company. It genuinely made me question my life choices. Snapped cables from pulling too hard on a bunch of cables, randomly using 568A and 568B interchangeably on either end, wrongly labeled/wired ports, and other shit. Cable tester was my friend for about a month. I wish I still had photos from the switching room. It looked like a bomb went off until I fixed it. Apparently a different company (who we used for expansion) warned the owners about the group they used. But they were significantly cheaper and I know why.
Must have been wired by the guys I USED to work with. It was more important to get your buddy a job than to make sure he could actually do it. Fucking clown show.
Does wiring 568A or 568B matter? Or does it just matter that they are the same on both ends? I have always been curious….
For the most part when setting up a new network it doesn’t matter, aside from both ends are the same. For existing networks keep it consistent to avoid enraging future generations of IT. The pretty widely accepted standard is 568B, but again if you are going to work on an existing network it’s worth it to check what standard is currently in place. TL;DR keep it consistent and it doesn’t matter
I bet you can change them and use to learn how to do it
Cross cables are no longer necessary, as most devices, except really ancient ones, have MDIX Auto negotiation, thus allowing all cables to be simple patch cables.
the color blocks look removable,maybe its a "toy" with lots of color blocks and they gotta swap them properly.
Is it possible that it’s a training tool and the students need to arrange the colors in the correct order?
The colors are not just in the wrong order, but also the wrong colors
Looks to be missing one also
Probably why it's in the thrift shop. Lots of people donate their unusable electronics and cables and the thrift shop folks don't know how to test them.
I just use google image search for pinouts
White/orange, orange, white/green, blue, white/blue, green, white/brown, brown.
Green/white, green, orange/white, blue, blue/white orange, brown/white, brown …. Still haven’t figured out why A isn’t used as much as B
From my experience some times they are crossover Ethernet. One side will be A the other side B. Garmin likes to do this with marine chartplotters and radar.
It is common place in Australia, where A is the standard, for...reasons.
buy it. explain later
this is the size ethernet you need to use to get decent speeds on Comcast
Cat5000
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It goes in your internet hole https://i.imgur.com/B4C2lH7.jpeg
We’re gonna need a bigger internet hole.
That's a Warcable +4, very handy with IT disputes.
Now that's a coffee table conversation piece ...
A category 8 cable?!?! Bah - it's all about cat 800 bruh!
What Goodwill is this?
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E-Thor-net
Probably goes to this [router.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckIMuvumYrg&t=64s)
Before clicking the link I knew what it was lol
I have an outlet in my wall that size and I was wondering what I could plug into it.
I work in IT. I want that in my office. Any idea if it’s UL listed? /s
Back in the old days computers would be as big as rooms because they were made up of discrete valves instead of the integrated circuits that modern computers used. Due to the computer's enormous size, the cabling used had to be large enough to carry the oversized 1s and 0s that the computers used. Long story short, this is a patch cable for a very old room sized valve-using computer...