After living in the same place in New York City for years, I recently moved to another place (also in New York City). The room I moved to has an existing phone jack but it looks different from the old square-ish ones I'm accustomed to. (The old ones consisted only of 4 terminals inside the case). This new one is rather rectangular and has a label on the outside that says ... NYC 'Hands Off buttata' meeting heldBEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NYTr NYC 'Hands Off buttata' meeting held Workers World - July 28, 2005 issue (posted 7-22-2005) 'Hands... Network Interface *Caution Disconnect plug from this jack during installation and repair of wiring. *Testing Plug working phone directly into this jack. If phone operates, fault is in wiring. If phone does not operate, call repair service. Doormen questionJonathan Wolfson You are at the whim of a bunch of buttholes, albeit rich buttholes. You will have to schelp, grovel and haul for them like a... When I opened the case, I noticed that the red and green wires (the only ones that will be actually used by the telephone itself) are also connected to a little circuit board whose most conspicuous component is a yellow cylinder-shaped object (about 3-4" long and about 3-8" diameter) with the following markings ... 250V TI 0.47 MFD +-- 10% * What is the purpose of this circuit board? * Is it really necessary? (How come the old-fashioned jacks didn't have this?) * What if I were to disconnect it? Also, when I looked inside the jack itself (the hole where you would plug the phone into), I noticed there's some strange-looking gunk inside. It's clear-colored and has the consistency of rubber cement. * Is this something that's supposed to be there? * What is it used for?
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