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The internet is no longer any fun
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lonelydad wrote: there was once a time when you couldn't do that in your own home. the phone company only allowed their phones, even with rj11 jacks, and they could tell if there were additional extensions you weren't paying for, which is why many phones were designed to not be detectable. The ringer on each phone/device puts a load on the line. If that load gets too big the ringers won't work properly and other bad things micht occur. That's what the big fuss was about with Ma Bell. They decided that the best way to keep that from happening was to control the devices connected to the line. These days, every landline device has a ringer equivalence number on the label. The sum of all connected devices should not be greater that four, if I remember correctly. nothing bad occurred with an additional phones, other than the phone company wasn't being paid for extensions. |
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