Telephone Plug Puns

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At E4C Alberta we are doing telephone appointments, just call 780-722-9409 and your number will be automatically added to our callback list. You don’t even need to speak with a human to get on the list! One of our volunteers will call you within 24-48 hours to assess your needs and book a more convenient time if you’re not available during the initial call. Also, you don't have to live in YEG, we've been helping people all over Alberta this year via telephone. Appointments sometimes take as little as 15 minutes for a simple tax return for a single person! More info: https://e4calberta.org/2021/02/2021-tax-clinics-open-march-1/

If you're in Edmonton and you’d prefer to drop off your papers and pick return later, the Bissell Centre is doing a drop-off service and you can pick up the completed return in a couple of weeks. Drop offs are Mondays 1-3:30 at 10530 96 St NW. More info: https://bissellcentre.org/programs/individual/taxes/

For both options above, we can help you file back 10 years. Anything from 2017 onward we can auto-fill and e-file. Anything 2011-2016 you need to have the slips and you need to mail a paper return to CRA. If you’re missing slips, you can get them in CRA My Account or you can call CRA and ask them to send you everything they have on record for you.

Both volunteer programs will be extended into May and possibly longer to accommodate any latecomers, so we look forward to helping as many people as possible down the home stretch and beyond!

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An old telephone plug recycled as a circuit case. Because RJ11 is some kind of a standard for Dallas/Maxim 1-Wire, I put an ESP12E and 3V3 DC-DC buck converter in the plug where a female RJ11 was already present. On one side I drilled a hole and put a DC jack there. I'm powering that with some random 9V DC power that I found from my junk box.

The firmware is my own and available at GitHub. It sends temperatures from DS18x20 via MQTT.

https://github.com/oh2mp/esp8266_ds1820_mqtt

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I have a telephone plug and I want wifi can I get that? Do I need an adaptor or something

And then only know what “watching TV” means from the movies.

https://imgur.com/a/irL27iW

this is a Telephone plug, socket, mount, thing. a few workers left an exposed wiring coming out of the side so i unscrewed this thing and stuffed it back in. however when i tried to screwing it back, it will not budge. i am not sure if i am doing something wrong or just generally weak, how do you screw this thing back in?

So we just put Cat6 into our home, i haven't terminated it yet as I'm trying to figure out if T568A or T568B matters. We have no telephone wiring installed, only Cat6 runs everywhere. I know I can just use two pairs of cat6 for telephone, but I would like to terminate all ends as RJ45 so i can interchange from ethernet and telephone.

Our home network looks like this: Atdran 411 fiber modem (this device converts fiber to rj11 voip and rj45 internet) in garage -- > router --> switch --> patch panel --> wall keystones

Can i use a rj11 to rj45 adapter on the patch panel and keystone end to turn it into telephone line? THe adtran 411 only accepts rj11, so I was thinking i could plug a rj11 to rj45 adapter into the device and the rj45 end into the patch panel. On the terminated keystone side, I could do Rj45 adapter into the keystone and then rj11 side to the telephone.

I'm not a networking or IT guy, so I have no idea if it would work but in my mind it does... I'm thinking in my head that If i ever want to switch between ethernet, then I can unplug the adapters and connect the patch panel cable back to the internet switch. Here's the cable I have in mind. https://www.amazon.com/Honbay-Telephone-Connector-Cable-Landline/dp/B01N8XIT4O/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1550206601&sr=8-3&keywords=rj11+to+rj45+adapter

OK, this is a a little different. Could use some help.

I am hard of hearing. I am too deaf to talk over normal phones. Normally in this day of texting and email, that is not a problem, however I am now job hunting. If you cannot talk on a phone, your chances of landing an interview goes way down.

So i decided to get a caption telephone. (https://clearcaptions.com). However, on top of the internet connection (That I have) it also requires a telephone jack.

Now, I do not want to get a telephone service, so I am looking for VOIP options. Some things I am looking for in a voip device is:

Stand alone unit. I do not want to have to plug it into my computer. (AKA magic jack)

Wifi would also be preferable.

What I am really wondering is if there are any cell-phone voip devices. Something I can plug a sim card into, and it has a telephone jack in it. (I would rather some cheap pay as you go cell service than a voip monthly plan)

Thanks for any help. Being hard of hearing, I never really looked into voip.

I am looking to turn a telephone handset like this into a microphone. The podcast I am on would like to do fake interviews with one of the people in the room using the handset to sound like a caller on the phone.

I found plans online to do it yourself, but I don't have the expertise or the patience to do it myself.

Everything I am finding online are "retro style" microphones for cell phones like this - I am not sure those would sound like how I want them to.

... but I don't know if the signal could be weak or anything about that. BTW, I have some dumb questions:

• if I buy a power over ethernet adapter built by d-link, it could be compatible with another one (for example, built by atlantis)? Or I have to buy 2 identical adapters?
• is there any other solution for my problem?

EDIT: Thanks everyone for your help! I'll try to buy a couple of adapters and see how they works. If there will be a lot of noise cause by my line, I'llreturn them back.

Thanks Reddit!

Thanks in advance. And sorry for my bad english

Hi there,

My XLR mic plugs into my Scarlett 2i2 which plugs into my laptop. I was looking for a way to record a phone call with as little software/hardware additions as possible.

I took my oneplus6t, got the USB-c to 3.5mm adapter, ran my 3.5mm cable to a stereo jack, and plugged it into my Scarlett. It worked! Sort of...the levels coming out of my phone capped at around -30db or so.

Just wondering if any of these solutions would fix the quietness problem, as I have an elderly guest coming up who doesn't want to use a computer and I am obliging:

1. manually cranking the gain for that track in audacity;
2. Using a phone that has a native audio jack (like my old Samsung Note 3); or
3. getting a dedicated USB C to Stereo Jack cable.

Any (other) suggestions for something that would get me clean gain up to a decent volume would be most appreciated!

Once again I've enjoyed a few beers and whilst perusing Reddit and reading TFTS awesomeness I felt drawn to regale y'all with another tale from my past.

For a few years I worked for a large telecom company in the US who delivered IPTV, internet, and voice over their circuits. It was my bridge from retail to the real IT work I do today, and while I detested climbing poles, attics, and crawling under houses, I rather enjoyed the work. I have the innate skill of "following the wire", as with any wired circuit with an issue, no matter what tools you have at your disposal the real work was chasing it down and knowing where to look and what to look for. I wasn't the top technician by numbers but I WAS the guy managers would call out to deal with escalations.

This job was one of those. A guy who'd had our service for a few years once again had intermittent issues. My favorite. Unless it went out of service (OOS) while I was there, there was very little I could do besides inspect and test every segment of the wire path I had access to. I told my manager as much, he said to just do the best I could. Fine, whatever, hopefully waving my magic wand works today.

I call ahead, do my usual remote tests, of course everything looks perfect right now. Drive down, knock on the door, introduce myself. Tell him my manager sent me out specifically to deal with this problem. The guy laughed. "Let me show you how many of y'all have been sent here to do precisely that." He opens a composition book and shows me a list of technician names, IDs, dates, and times. "You mind signing in?"

I honestly laughed in absurdity. Shaking my head, I write my own name, ID, today's date, and the time on my watch. When I'm done I count, and there were 32 other names above mine, dating back over the last four years. "Sir, unless I'm mistaken, you've had issues with our service ever since you've had it installed. Why the hell are you still with us?"

"Well, I LOVE the service when it works, which is most of the time. I'll never go back to cable. When it doesn't it is annoying, of course. Something is wrong somewhere, and I figure if I keep calling enough eventually someone will figure it out and fix it."

My company was never going to recoup the money they've spent trying to fix this customer's service, even if he was subscribed without another call for the next fifteen years. Nevertheless, I liked a challenge, so I decided to do my thing.

What I found was the most immaculate install I

Hello, just moved to a new place. I would like to run an ethernet cable from the router/switch to another room to add an AP, its around 6m but 3 doors so will be a pain to run cable along the floor. I noticed there is an old telephone line running through the walls connecting both rooms, I dont need to keep the old wire. Could I tie a string to one end of the phone wire and pull it through, then pull a Cat6 cable through using the string? What should I think of before hand? I am not sure if there is electricity running in the same pipe.

I connected an RJ11 wire into the MASTER Network Cable Tester (CT468) in room#2. I connected an RJ11 wire into the REMOTE Network Cable Tester (CT468) in room#1. In the two devices, the green LED for pins 3 and 4 light up.

Is this a good results or a bad result? I'm not sure how to interpret this.

Background info

I am troubleshooting the phone wiring in my house as one of the steps to troubleshoot why I lost VOIP phone service.

Until last week, this set-up worked: Modem -- Netgear R7000 router -- Linksys SPA2102-R voip box -- RJ11 wire from voip box to room#1 phone jack -- Room#2 phone jack to Uniden cordless phone.

The symptoms now are:

1. No dial tone on cordless phone
2. SPA2102 flashes green LED for PHONE1

What I tried:

1. Tried new Panasonic cordless phone
2. Tried moving RJ11 cable that enters jack from room#1 to room #3
3. Tried moving cordless phone to room#4

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!