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RJ-45 and USB ports are exactly the same width. If you plug in a USB port blindly, you can feel it make contact with the sides of an RJ-45 port. I found this
by wffurr 7y ago
RJ-45 and USB ports are exactly the same width. If you plug in a USB port blindly, you can feel it make contact with the sides of an RJ-45 port.
I found this out trying to fix someone's printer. I even un- and re-plugged the cable and it still wasn't detected. It wasn't until I actually looked at the back panel that I noticed the printer's USB cable was plugged into an RJ-45 network jack.
- jschwartzi 7y agoI did this exact thing on my laptop once, and was very confused for about 5 minutes until I went to plug my Ethernet in.
- sxcurry 7y agoI also discovered this while trying to plug my telescope's camera USB cable into my PC in the total darkness, and wondering why the camera didn't work.
- baddox 7y agoI’ve also blindly plugged a USB cable onto pins of a DB9 serial port.