Modern consumer-grade audio and professional telephone plugs and jacks have descended from specifications made by the Western Electric Company (WECO) around the turn of the 20th century.

Most installations done in the last 10 years or so will have 8P8C (aka RJ45) jacks. RJ11 plugs connect to these just fine for phone use, and you don't even have to reterminate if you switch over ...

Registered Jack type 45 (RJ45) was originally (and technically still is) a connector that looks like what is commonly called a RJ45 (8P8C) connector but it has a physical key on the plug and a key ...

After rumours that Apple was going to get rid of the headphone jack in its imminent iPhone 7, more than 200,000 people have signed a petition asking them to reconsider. This humble plug is a rare ...

Plug the phone cord leading from the wall phone jack into the phone-line socket on the base unit. Plug the base unit into an electrical outlet. Turn on the power.

It has become difficult to find a flagship phone in the US with a headphone jack. The old 3.5mm plugs seem to be déclassé to high-end vendors, which want you to go wireless. You have more ...