[OT] Vonage and VOIP

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

Jerry Feldman wrote:

>On Monday 31 January 2005 14:58, Kent Borg wrote:
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>>Is the number of ringers the problem?  We have quite a few phones at
>>home (that I plan on hooking up to a Sipura VoIP adaptor), but we have
>>the ringers off on all but two (the two that have "real" ringers with
>>bells and everything!).
>>
>>I could imagine that the Sipura might get unhappy if many extensions
>>went off hook at once, but that isn't a likely in our case.
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>Please report on it once everything is up and running. I probably only need 
>a couple of ringers.
>
Jerry,

Add up the REN numbers from your phones: the total should be below the maximum REN quoted in the docs of your VoIP adapter.

HTH.

Bill

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