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Does anybody know what this yoke is?

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  • 28-03-2018 10:37am
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    anthonyjmaher
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    Hi everybody,

    There are a number of these out on a customer's site. And I don't know exactly what they do.
    They are mounted high on the wall and connected with a phone cable to a Cat5 point on the wall. It is made by LG, but there is no model number on the chassis.

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    Anybody?


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    tnegun
    Registered Users Posts: 1,734 ✭✭✭tnegun


    Cordless phone base station?


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    BrokenArrows
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    looks like a WIFI access point. Might be a repeater.


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,306 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Looks to be an LG Nortel DECT phone station.

    Dead ringer for it in this listing:

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LG-Nortel-GDC-330B-DECT-Base-Station-Wireless-GAP-IP-Cordless-Business-phone-/390549714962


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    wheresmahbombs
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    Looked like a modem to me at first glance.


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    davo2001
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    wheresmahbombs wrote: »
    Looked like a modem to me at first glance.

    Why would a modem have aerials?!?


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    eeepaulo
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    Looks like a piece off a cyberman


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    [Deleted User]
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    Unplug it and see what stops working or who starts complaining.


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    anthonyjmaher
    Registered Users Posts: 2,022 ✭✭✭anthonyjmaher


    Thanks everybody.
    I obviously knew that it had some wireless function, and some phone function (given it was connected to RJ11), but didn't think that it was to do with DECT phones. I'm not even sure they still have DECT phones on the premises.
    I was going to just plug out and see who complained, but it's a nursing home and I am only on site one day a month. I don't want anybody dying because of my actions! Let me see if anybody uses DECT phones.


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    KT10
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    anthonyjmaher wrote: »
    I was going to just plug out and see who complained, but it's a nursing home and I am only on site one day a month. I don't want anybody dying because of my actions! Let me see if anybody uses DECT phones.

    Do any of the patients/residents carry those personal alarms or something in case they fall when staff are not around?


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    ED E
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    Yes, MediAlert could use a DECT link to the base, that would require such a unit to function.


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    Spear
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    anthonyjmaher wrote: »
    Thanks everybody.
    I obviously knew that it had some wireless function, and some phone function (given it was connected to RJ11), but didn't think that it was to do with DECT phones. I'm not even sure they still have DECT phones on the premises.
    I was going to just plug out and see who complained, but it's a nursing home and I am only on site one day a month. I don't want anybody dying because of my actions! Let me see if anybody uses DECT phones.

    I think we can all agree that a nursing home is not the place for a scream test to be tried.

    I've seen medical equipment use some clunky and outdated tech, simple cos it's cheap and reliable enough.


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    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,747 ✭✭✭degsie


    Try asking around. Somebody must know their purpose.


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    the_syco
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    anthonyjmaher wrote: »
    it's a nursing home and I am only on site one day a month
    Best not switch them off in that case!

    =-=

    Goto the cable room, and see what they're all connected to. I'd say the box that they're all linked to will have a contact number of some type to ring, in case it breaks.


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