[OT] Vonage and VOIP

[jack at coats.org (Jack Coats)]

In the old phone days, the RBOC (before they were RBOCs) would test the
ringers on every phone line regularly (quarterly or so) to see how many
extentions you had.  Newer phones had a REN (Ringer Equivalency Number)
below one (like .2).  I think the maximum allowed on a private line was 5
REN.  And phones with no ringer, or the ringer turned off was 0.  I think
you can still find the REN listed on each phone (at least the hardwired
phones or the bases of remote phones) to figure out how much you need.  This
really had to do with how much current the phone company had to supply to
drive the bell type ringers on the old phones.

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-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at blu.org] On Behalf Of
Jerry Feldman
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 2:18 PM
To: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Vonage and VOIP


On Monday 31 January 2005 14:58, Kent Borg wrote:

> 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.
Please report on it once everything is up and running. I probably only need 
a couple of ringers.

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gerald.feldman at hp.com>
Partner Technology Access Center (contractor) (PTAC-MA) Hewlett-Packard Co.
550 King Street LKG2a-X2 Littleton, Ma. 01460  (978)506-5243
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