[Gllug] OT: What is the REN of a modern powered phone?

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 07 Nov, Christopher Hunter wrote:
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> 
> It really DOES matter.  If you exceed a REN of 4, you will get strange
> things happening, and BT will charge you money to tell you that you're
> overloading their ringing circuit!
> 
> Chris
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> 
> 

   I only have a single answerphone with ringer, but I can grab a very old
analogue phone elsewhere (with ringer disconnected) when I hear the ring. I
was wondering whether to set up Asterisk, very much over the top, but I
might learn something useful.

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