Is it worth bothering about , after all this time? Mac mini

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

It's my own fault . Bought a Mac mini 6 years ago.
Just realised , now, after all these years, the socket where I put my phone into is defective.
The phone socket will not allow cable to be connected.

I was using wifi as soon as I got it .

Not a huge problem.)
(Red faced)

[ben604]

phone socket? As in, land line?

[jaydentaku]

ethernet port? If you are plugging it into the modem port, then yeah, that will not work dude.

[Monckyman]

Phone socket..?

[thepurpleblob]

The very very first man-minis had a built in modem (as in the picture above). It takes a standard 'rj-11' connector to a telephone socket. They dropped that and the later ones only have the rj-45 standard network plug which is a different thing although it looks similar. If you want to connect that to a phone socket you need a USB modem adaptor.

However, both are incredibly unlikely these days. Nobody at all uses dial-up modems.

SO... what is it, exactly, that you are trying to do??

Edited December 21, 2012 by thepurpleblob

[jaydentaku]

[quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1356109122' post='1907040']
Nobody at all uses dial-up modems.
[/quote]

I use one in my office for my backup card machine.

from wiki: in 2011 AOL signed up 200,000 Dial up customers in the US. Some areas still don't have high speed connections, plus it is an economic alternative for some people.

just out of interest is all.

[noelk27]

[quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1356109122' post='1907040']Nobody at all uses dial-up modems.[/quote]
Me, until April this year. Cable companies would supply the location, cable over (BT) telephone wasn't supported, mobile telecoms were patchy at best, so dial-up was the only solution.