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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 ...
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.
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
Thanks for testing your cordless phone system. I think it is relatively recent that they started to do this with batteries.
Wired network and phone is still a good thing to have in a home...
Good informative discussion, Bill and Polecat. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience.
You're welcome.
An old phone is likely 100., I don't think any consumer phones had a value of over 100.
I understand about running the wiring, it is a good idea to run more rather than fewer jacks.
