Hello all
For over two years now, I have an optical cable line with internet, TV and phone services. Before I had ADSL. It is better and everything runs perfectly, but the phone ringer.
I have a hearing deficiency following a bad flue a few years ago. I can hear low frequencies almost normally, but after a certain point my hearing graphic starts dropping in a very steeply straight line and I can’t hear the highest frequencies at all. I understand the highest human listening frequencies usually drop with age, but in my case the problem is not that (only the highest), but as the graphic I said shows. No need to put it here because it is exactly as I described. I cannot hear the microwave oven beeping when it stops, but as I can hear its low frequency motor working, even if I am not in the kitchen, I know it stops when the motor sound stops. This does not let me hear the phone ringing with middle to high frequencies if I am not close enough.
I used to hear it when I had analogic ADSL because the sound was strong enough, but with this low voltage fibre does an old bell phone ringer does not do more than clicking, really. I have tried several modern phones, but their sound is always too weak for my hearing capabilities.
I also tried to use ringer amplifiers, but then, there is another problem. I could not find one for optical cable. Some, with a power supply (I bought one of those), are advertised for a ringing sound level of 100 dB. Maybe they do that on analogic lines, but on fiber they sound as the other phones I bought, the same weak sound.
There is an obvious solution for this – go back to ADSL with an analogic phone line – but that is exactly what I want to avoid. Hence, I came here in the hope of an advice on how to amplify a phone line ringer. I did not measure the voltage because I am sure it will be very low, far from the 50 Volts I had on the old line.
Thank you very much for any helpful suggestion.
For over two years now, I have an optical cable line with internet, TV and phone services. Before I had ADSL. It is better and everything runs perfectly, but the phone ringer.
I have a hearing deficiency following a bad flue a few years ago. I can hear low frequencies almost normally, but after a certain point my hearing graphic starts dropping in a very steeply straight line and I can’t hear the highest frequencies at all. I understand the highest human listening frequencies usually drop with age, but in my case the problem is not that (only the highest), but as the graphic I said shows. No need to put it here because it is exactly as I described. I cannot hear the microwave oven beeping when it stops, but as I can hear its low frequency motor working, even if I am not in the kitchen, I know it stops when the motor sound stops. This does not let me hear the phone ringing with middle to high frequencies if I am not close enough.
I used to hear it when I had analogic ADSL because the sound was strong enough, but with this low voltage fibre does an old bell phone ringer does not do more than clicking, really. I have tried several modern phones, but their sound is always too weak for my hearing capabilities.
I also tried to use ringer amplifiers, but then, there is another problem. I could not find one for optical cable. Some, with a power supply (I bought one of those), are advertised for a ringing sound level of 100 dB. Maybe they do that on analogic lines, but on fiber they sound as the other phones I bought, the same weak sound.
There is an obvious solution for this – go back to ADSL with an analogic phone line – but that is exactly what I want to avoid. Hence, I came here in the hope of an advice on how to amplify a phone line ringer. I did not measure the voltage because I am sure it will be very low, far from the 50 Volts I had on the old line.
Thank you very much for any helpful suggestion.