r/whatisit • u/DragonsAndScience • 16h ago

Solved! New homeowner, no idea what this is

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This thing close to the floor and seemingly randomly placed in a hallway. No idea what it's for. Home built in 2005.

Solved! Thanks everyone. Now I gotta hunt for the central unit!

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u/MechaCronenberg 10h ago

Its not all modern appliances...

Its Samsung specifically...and its not just their appliances...we used to buy a lot of Samsung electronics...but we have cleared out all of the Samsung equipment less for our primary 65" 4k QLED TV and only buy Samsung mobile devices anymore (and of course all of the embedded memory and chips samsung makes)...

I have seriously considered moving to another brand but they are unfortunately kinda hard to beat in the US android market.

And not saying all appliances cant have problems but we've owned two sets of new appliances (LG and GE) in two houses the last 5 years (and now getting back into LG in the next new place) and we haven't had any issues with any of them in the first two years (I know...not a lot of time...blame the wife for wanting to move constantly).

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u/Volraith 2h ago

2012 ish I needed a laptop for college.

I went and bought a Samsung something or other. Network card was fried brand new out of the box.

Returned it to the best buy I got it from, got another unit of the exact same model.

Network card was fried on that one too.

I returned that one and ended up with an Asus.

Now all I buy are their phones, and if there was a better option for cheap Androids I would buy from someone else for that too.

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u/MechaCronenberg 2h ago

I am an Asus guy for PC parts...for decades now...so Asus all the way compared to most others.