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Purefibre Home Phone daisy chaining - max number of phones?
Hello. Can anyone say what the so-called ringer equivalency is for the Telus Purefibre Home Phone lines? That would be the number of hard wired phones that can be daisy chained before they can't get enough current through the single line to ring. I suppose it depends partly on the phone models used, but I believe telephone companies rate their lines for this. I'm hoping to install 6 RJ11 jacks in different locations in my house on a single line.
Thanks for any help.
The industry standard has always been 5. In Canada, most phones have a Ring Equivalency Number (REN) of 100 and the maximum on landlines is 500. Although I can't speak for the purefibre set up, I can well imagine that if it is replacing legacy landlines, they would engineer it to be similar. Cordless phones are the way to go with more devices since only the base station counts.
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The industry standard has always been 5. In Canada, most phones have a Ring Equivalency Number (REN) of 100 and the maximum on landlines is 500. Although I can't speak for the purefibre set up, I can well imagine that if it is replacing legacy landlines, they would engineer it to be similar. Cordless phones are the way to go with more devices since only the base station counts.
Thanks for this information on the REN. On the single old wired TT phone I have, I couldn't find a REN stated anywhere (and I didn't attempt to look on the net for specs for that specific device).
We'll only use two of the 6 locations that I mentioned in a previous post, but, historically, people seem to want a phone in many rooms, including bedrooms. I'll be running CAT5e for the data and phone lines, so that if a future owner wants, they can re-purpose the phone lines for something else.
Thanks again, BillTelusCust, for this great information.
Rubato BillTelusCust Good idea to run phone and net to every room the wire is cheap the finishing is more. Bill i tested my panisonic cordless (old ones) will not work unplugged. Polecat
A lot of the cordless phones will use the battery power from the handset in the base station to run it when there's a power outage - so make sure the handset is in the base unit and use a different one when this situation exists. Of course, you can test it by unplugging the base unit with the handset in place...
I'm pretty sure Panasonic ones are like this but I am not in a position to test that for you right now, sorry.
Hi Polecat.
Thanks for responding so quickly. And thanks for letting me know what works on your line.
Just for clarity, it sounds like your wired phones worked during the power outage because your fibre ONT was on UPS power. If the ONT wasn't getting power, the wired phones would be as dead as the data line. Is that right?
Thanks again.
