What is this thing?
Sorry for one of these threads but this thing is in my accomidation kitchen and none of my flatmates know what it does.
I thought of plugging the usb into my windows pc to see if it identifies a driver or something but I dont want to fuck it up.
If I can find a scredriver I will open it but it is mains 230v voltage.
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Bump. I've got no idea, but I'm curious
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It's probably a repeater.
I recognize that port from printers. Maybe its a digital fax machine?
The only thing I can think of is the intercom and myabe this is a wireless booster or something, its not the wifi ap as that is in the hall.
This. Someone tore apart an old router and made a repeater out of it.
Looks home made though. Look at those awful holes for the ports.
Its a usb B port and has no phone line or network cable.
There are no markings on it whatsoever, it had a sticker over the plug that read "do not turn off"
yea thats why I am curious to what it does
you don't need a cable if your repeater has WDS
NSA spy tool in UK.
Burn down the entire apartment immediately. America has infiltrated.
It's definitely home-made. You need to unscrew it to know for sure, what it is.
It may be some kind of wireless usb wire.
Fuck it, turn off? Summon Satan maybe.
if this is a repeater and you don't have a router in you apartment you can try plugging it off and see what happens to your wifi
The wifi is about 5 meters away and is in the hall
Just turn it off... If someone complains then they know what it's for.
Open the fucker up.
this
repeater probably back in the day when they were utilized by your college/uni.
it happened at my college dorm too user. we had brand new router/repeaters installed but they left the old ones in the dorms and they did absolutely fuck all. weren't even connected to the internet but the school signed some sort of contract that forced them to keep them installed for 15 years (because how fast could wifi evolve in those 15 years? we used dial up for that long!! clearly no technical leaps will happen at all and only one out of four students will even have a laptop!!"
Connect it to a comupter, do lsusb. Use a shitty disposable one if you're scared.
The repeater was probably because of the door. Try turning it off.
I used to install wifi routers on hotels and 3-floor houses, and it was weird how bad the wifi signal got just because of a simple door.
ask your landlord
no?
Structural Beam pillars also affect signal, in my house i literally can take one step under a pillar and get one bar and angle myself slightly away and get full bars.
>but it is mains 230v voltage.
unplug it first?
but the sticker says "do not unplug"
I plugged it into my laptop and it shows up as USB Uart. Those other hardware devices are new as well so they may be related
Looks like some sort of device to me.
Some type of 3g modem?
Throw some AT commands to it
Go to the properties tab and show us the PCI vendor and device ids
Should be two four character ids
>Do not unplug
Doesn't say you can turn off the switch on the bong outlet.
Nor does it say you can't cover it in lots of tinfoil.
*can't turn off
those are just generic drivers for the generic usb->serial interface the device has
The device is clearly mobile network related.
MAP = Messaging Access Profile
SMS/MMS obvious
Flow still a mystery
Well it's part of the FTDI chip.
ftdichip.com
felhr85.net
>plugs weird shit into their laptop instead of just turning it off and see what happens.
>"coockies"
also kurwa
>mobile network related
actually makes some sense, it could be a home made cell repeater.
The screws are hex so ill have to leave it and get a screwdriver to open it tomorrow.
Well if the landlord wants that, he or she can do that in their own apartment.
Plugging in, wasting outlets and electricity in your apartment is illegal.
Call the cops, have your landlord explain why this "thing" is plugged in, and what it's for.
i tried that and nothing happened
my guess is its some sort of wireless repeater for an intercom
secret camera inside, your landlord is watching you fap
>i tried that and nothing happened
You plugged it out and nobody complained? It might be one of those "electricty saving boxes" that you plug in to the wall socket and it will save your electricity by some sort of swindler magic. If you pay for the electricity I would just unplug it.
Its a botnet
so whats that, some kind of plug in PFC?
Looks like some sort of modded networking gear, with a serial inrerface. Usually a router has pads for serial on the PCB, but they are not populated for production.
Adding a serial interface allows you to communicate with the router's bootloader directly.
wiki.openwrt.org
Try to interface with it.
I dont pay for the electricity but I am curious as to what it does
pull the plug and see what happens
download putty and try to get a shell
techwalla.com
it's basically just a green LED and placebo circuits that create heat.
Most of them do actually have a capacitor to try to correct power factor, but it is useless in a home setting as power factor is not measured on your power bill. See youtube.com
Should OP leave it plugged or unplugged ?
Here is a poll:
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what do the characters on the wall plug say? maybe those can trace back to something on google?
my lad bigclive