It's not stupid if it works...

The story behind this:

There was some electrical work being done in my flat and they seemed to think I don't need my telephone connection anymore... Because they just cut the cable and removed the box.

Is it their job to fix it? Sure.
Do I want to wait for them? Hell no!

Now I could put a TAE (or RJ45) box to wire it properly, but then I need to spend money on the parts and tools and wait for it to arrive. So I just made a Frankenstein connection directly from the telephone cable to the modem by sacrificing an old patch cable:
a to 4, b to 5, boom — 270000/42000 kbps sync.

Closeup after cleaning up the extra wires

You running DSL?

@saucyatom
> It's not stupid if it works...
This is so wrong. Just because something works, doesn’ mean it’s not stupid.

@Demolishun Yes, SVDSL / 35b

@Lensflare Alright, it doesn't apply to every scenario ;)

Though here, while it might look stupid, I probably have a cleaner connection than with the 40 yo TAE box.

Those little clippy things are the dog's.