Telephone line

[RJCOD]

I have a brand new TV, do I plug the LAN telephone line directly into the TV set or my Sky Q box?

[PandJ2020]

The question doesn't make sense.

What's a 'LAN telephone line'?

[TimmyBGood · Accepted solution]

@RJCOD 

Neither a smart television or a Q box uses a telephone line, because neither device contains a modem.  The last Sky devices to be built with dial-up connections were obsolete Sky+ HD boxes.

Both will have ethernet ports though, so can use a LAN (Local Area Network) data connection over ethernet cable to a router if you choose not to put them on WiFi.

[Chodley]

Can you post a photo of this phone port? Sounds like it might be either fibre or one of those adsl filter dual socket things.

[RJCOD]

The LAN is the small white telephone Pin socket

[Shiva87]

I have a brand new TV, do I plug the LAN telephone line directly into the TV set or my Sky Q box?

[MightyQuinn]

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@RJCOD wrote:

The LAN is the small white telephone Pin socket

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Hi @RJCOD   That still does not make any sense. LAN = Local Area Network, nothing to do with telephones. Best to post an image.

[TimmyBGood]

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@RJCOD wrote:

The LAN is the small white telephone Pin socket

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A 'small white telephone Pin socket' is not a Local Area Network: 'LAN' refers to ethernet (WLAN is WiFi)

These days the only thing a telephone socket connects to is a router (for ADSL, G.fast and FTTC broadband) or a voice handset.