Just cut the cord with Rogers. Turns out my old rotary dial phones still ring when connected via VOIP. Yay!!
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They RING!!!
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What are you using for a POTS adapter?
Relax
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Any phone should ring when connected to a VOIP ATA (analog telephone adapter). But if you want pulse dialing, that's another story:
"One of the worst parts of modern life is how unsatisfying it is to hang up on somebody. Tapping on the ‘End Call’ button on an iPhone or angrily clicking ‘Leave Meeting’ on Zoom just isn’t nearly as fun as slamming down the handset on a real phone."
Making VoIP Calls with Antique Rotary Phones
One of the worst parts of modern life is how unsatisfying it is to hang up on somebody. Tapping on the ‘End Call’ button on an iPhone or angrily clicking ‘Leave Meeting’ on Zoom just isn’t nearly as fun as slamming down the handset on a real phone. This particular project was to breathe some...
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I don't think this is a given with older phones with mechanical ringers, that are entirely powered from the phone line
Relax
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Depends on the ATA's REN (Ringer Equivalence Number), which is based on the ringer in the old rotary phones with mechanical reingers (Bell System/Western Electric model 500). My Obi202 has a REN of 5, which means it can power the ringer on 5 of those phones simultaneously.
I have a rotary dial phone, what makes you think I would know what that means? I'm with Quadro if that's helpful.
They gave you a thingy that you had to plug in somewhere and connect to your internet lol. Unless somebody came and installed it for you
Mad Mike
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The connection on an ATA (the box that connects a corded phone to the internet) has ethernet and POTS ports (plain old telephone service). The POTS jack emulates the phone company connection.
POTS is the electrical connection to the phone, it's not the signaling part used for on/off-hook and dialing. If your phone generates touch tones, it should all work. If your phone is rotary it likely doesn't generate tones so you will be able to do everything except dial a call (and you won't be able to control an auto-attendant). There are some exceptions -- Grandstream ATA's and a few older, obscure ATAs will handle rotary phone Pulse dialing and some really cheap phones have a switch that will do pulse or tone dialing.
You can connect an ATA at either the phone or at the demarcation spot coming into your house (the box Bell installed typically near your fuse panel). If you do it at the demarcation point, any existing wiring in your house's phone network will become active. Many ATAs can handle 2 lines so it's possible to have 2 different numbers ringing in the same home.
I have an old Linksys PAP2T connected at the demarc. I took over the phone number my parents got in 1974 and ported it to a VOIP provider. I think it costs me about $4 bucks a month for the novelty of having wired phones.
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