Forget about your first image/question then … that my friend needs just a regular lan cable. RJ45 at both ends. No telephony involved here
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Tagger@lemmy.world 2 months agoredlemace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tagger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So, two of the yellow ones?
redlemace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Absolutely; although the color itself isn’t important. You need RJ45/RJ45 and I’d suggest cat5e or better
Tagger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thanks. Turns out I literally had the cable I needed and was just being to silly to plug it in because I didn’t think it was the one. Thanks so much for your help!
Tagger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thanks, sorry for being a dumbass!
redlemace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No need to apologize “no stupid questions” remember ? ;)
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
What router is that?
Tagger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BT Smart hub 2
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The ports on the router look weird. I want to look more into this but I’m afk for the next hour. Will look it up more afterwards.
testfactor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, those are both definitely normal Ethernet jacks. Neither takes a phone cable. You should just need a normal Ethernet line.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
RJ45 to be specific. RJ11 is phone
Tagger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
OMG, thank you so much, I was being super dense!
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Did it work? As I said, the ports on the router look a little weird, but if a normal network cable plugged into them then you’re good.
As others have said, you weren’t being dense at all. Your question wasn’t stupid, just a little misguided, and it was very quick for us to figure it out with just a little bit of back and forth. I wish all tech support was this efficient!
BTW, if anything I was being a bit rude when I said I wasn’t sure why you thought the other end needed to be different. Apologies for that. Looking at the photo of the router you sent around the same time, I can see why you thought that, it really does look different.
Tagger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thanks, yeah, it’s all back and working now.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The router ports are too short, wtf is that?
testfactor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just a little squat. More than tall enough for an rj45 to plug in though. I think they look a little tight because it doesn’t have the same amount of bezel as a lot of boxes will have around the ports.