Optus Box

Whats inside an old Optus Cable wall box.

[@TomR459]

Usable parts nice plastic enclosures

[@s8wc3]

Never seen something like that before. Is that Motorola box for phone service? Did you get landline phone service over cable rather than POTS? Don't know what else that twisted pair stuff would be for

[@vk3ase]

The box was for cable TV, broadband internet and ordinary telephone. We never had the TV service and only got it when high speed internet came along. The phone service replaced the original copper wire that had been in service up to 100 years. The POTS has been phased out in most metro areas now and also the Optus cable is dead after only 20 years of service and replaced with the National Broadband Network. It has been more political than practical.

[@Paul_VK3HN]

Lost your camera tripod Dave? 🤔

[@vk3ase]

No one cares about camera work and editing you get as many views with crap work and you do get sick of slick production, people come to YT to get away from that after years of indoctrination from the big end of town television. I will still do "art" videos but will have more off the cuff stuff. The deal island and the wire recorder vids and the like took a week to produce, This one took an hour from start of filming to upload.

[@Paul_VK3HN]

@@vk3ase YT is a strange world, some of the channels I watch, Andreas Speiss for example, The Guy With The Swiss Accent, always hits very high production values, but a crappy vid of a cat falling off a wall can get 5M views. Did you consider blowing the Optus box up with mains? And pick a catchy title like "You'll Never Guess What Happens When An Optus CATV Box Is Connected To 240V!".