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by bradtheappguy 2132 days ago
This comment makes me feel old. The 2/3 sized cat5 jack is actually an RJ11 - what we used to call a 'phone jack'
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Lol yeah "legacy ethernet cable" cracked me up, it's a phone jack :)
RJ12 is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_jack#RJ12

The jacks official name for the jack is Modular connector[1]. 6P6C for RJ14, 6P2C for RJ11 and 8P8C for RJ45 (what you described as cat5 jack)

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_connector