Most UK house construction doesn’t really allow for retrofitting cables in the way that seems to be common in the the US
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sefra1@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
That’s interesting, but those boxes seem rather expensive, wouldn’t it be cheaper to just pull ethernet cable over the phone installation?
CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Even US houses above a certain age have the same problem.
dimjim@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I couldn’t tell reading the post, but they may be renting instead of owning? They likely can’t do bigger construction tasks like that, so they’re forced to use what they have.
sefra1@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It wouldn’t matter because 4 pair ethernet cable can still transport 2 pair phone signals just fine (if not better), so he could just replace the the sockets back to the old RJ11 ones and the landland wouldn’t ever know that anything was changed.
Either way, reading at the other replies, it seems that houses in UK don’t actually use ducts to pass the cables so replacing the cable is nearly impossible. Didn’t know that.
Ozymandias88@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
The cables are often not run in ducts they’re just tacked to the studwork in the house before the plasterboard goes up. This means any new cable is basically a fresh install.