Ringer equivalence number for Freetalk Connect Me ...

Hi,
I have an old Western Electric 2500 touch tone phone that i want to use with Skype. I am hoping it will work with the Freetalk Connect Me device. I have tried with with the Sprint Home Connect 2 device on Ting and everything worked except the phone did not ring on incoming calls. I believe this is related to something called the Ringer Equivalence Number, which represents the amount of electrical load on the telephone ringer line.
My question is: does the Freetalk Connect Me device have enough REN to ring my old Western Electric 2500 phone? It needs at least 1 REN to ring, but apparently most VOIP adapters generate little to no electrical load on the ringer.
Thanks!

I own a Free Talk Connect Me, but I don't have one of those old phones lying around. I do have several electric ringer phones, one being a non-powered one. My Connect Me device is listed as 0.0B REN. The problem with that value is that refers to the REN load and does not seem to me to reference it's own ringer or REN "supply". I connected all the phones I had in my house and they all still successfully rang. The non-powered phone "claimed" to have a REN of 1.3. I believe the phone you have tends to generate a variable load of 1-1.5 REN. The default the phone company supplies is 5 REN. From checking similar devices, I believe the supply is more than lilkly around 2-3 REN. I read a test someone did to measure the current during a ring on a classic phone and it averaged at around 8 mA (A/C). The cominbed current in my tests of the RX line in series never exceeded 5 mA (2-5 range). So even if it can't be used as a direct comparison, current is flowing and adjusts depending on the load introduced into the system. There are other variables that can affect the ringing, so it's hard to say what a device like his may be lacking (waveform issues, frequency response (which should be better since it's a class B device, and continous voltage (60-90 A/C EU/US standards). If you find VOIP devices to be intermttent in ringing a device with a high load, the only alernative I can think of (besides using a different phone) is implementing the use of a REN booster to see if it solves your problem. With that in-line you may be able to drive several of those type phones.
If you want a more definitve answer you might want to contact Free Talk directly to see if they have a better spec sheet/white paper that answers your question. I can only provide you with my best educated guess.
https://freetalk.zendesk.com/home
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I have received email reply from eBuyNow Support.
Dear Customer,
You are receiving this email because you have recently purchased our Freetalk Connect Me Skype Home Phone adapter. We would like to take this opportunity to let you know that eBuyNow will soon release a software upgrade for your device. The upgrade procedure is automatic, however it does require your immediate attention. In order for it to process seamlessly, we have to ask you to verify your settings in the Freetalk Connect Me administration interface.
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