I probably wouldn't go any farther than to say what would you expect from a piece of crap modem that provides a poor excuse for a POTS line? The geniuses who designed the thing probably never even saw a phone with a dial so do you really think they would design it to meet Bell standards in terms of ring voltage and current from before they were born? All it has to do is activate a couple of electronic ringers so why bother with anything else?

-Hal

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