Phone Jack Won't Fit

ClassicCool wrote: ↑ Ironically I've never owned a land line telephone until now, but we need one for our intercom. Our place is newly renovated, but the building was built in the 1970s, and for some reason the phone cord for our new phone won't physically fit into the jack.

Now, I work in IT, so I know what an ethernet cable is. This isn't one. It's a regular phone cord and (seemingly) an ordinary wall jack. But the wall jack is slightly too small to insert the phone cable. Could this be some weird older standard or a fax line or some other retro shit?

Gee wrote: ↑ @ClassicCool

If you work in IT, it shouldn't be a challenge for you to remove the plate and punch down a new jack

sickcars wrote: ↑ People seem to use "IT" very broadly so it really does not mean much anymore. I have seen people at my work who work in "IT" with me & when connecting a 2nd monitor to a computer they connection it to another video port on the original monitor

ClassicCool wrote: ↑ I choose not to take that personally. As it happens, I haven't had to crimp a network cable since college and I don't have the tool for it anyway. Also the building super can't tell me for sure if that particular port even connects to the intercom circuit, so I'm not in a rush anymore. I'll see about replacing the jack when I feel inspired again.

sickcars wrote: ↑ So unless the person is specific on what type of IT they are in then that does not mean much.

doradxplorer wrote: ↑ How about just peeling the paint? Looking at the picture, I feel like I want to peel the paint for you

sickcars wrote: ↑ Its not directed at you sorry, just in General I see some people say they work in IT but they could be a programmer and when it comes to hardware they know nothing about it just like somebody whos in hardware/networking may not know anything about programing and so on.
So unless the person is specific on what type of IT they are in then that does not mean much.