Quote Originally Posted by jfh View Post
Interesting - I have a 50's payphone I have been meaning to hook up and I just ran another phone outlet during a remodel. I just assumed all ATAs would support pulse dialing and i could just backfeed an ATA into the internal house wiring.

Another entry on my project list.
Actually; it's the contrary. ATA's normally do not support pulse dialing. Only tone. I have all of my jacks in the house connected to my voip adapter. (11 of them, with 11 phones). This is something that isn't hard to do, but if you don't know what you're doing can be a PITA. Plus; if you don't disconnect properly at the phone company's NI on your house, you could fry your ATA/IP phone if you're not careful. Also; you need to be careful not to leave ALL of the ringers turned on if you're connecting a lot of phones to the ATA. Especially if you have older phones with real bells. They draw a lot of current to ring. Most adapters can handle about 3-REN. But with more modern electronic ringers, that don't draw much current, you can usually get more ringers online. But for my 2 real old phones with ringers, you would have to be careful.