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[help] half ringer, What is it?

I had to remove the half-ringer from my NID because every time the phone rang or when I picked my phone I would loose the dsl connection. The DSL connection would come back in a minute or so but it was very frustrating.
The half-ringer in my NID did not look like the one in the link you have posted, mine looked like a black computer chip with two red and two green wires. But it was located in exactly the same place as in the link in your message.
I believe the half-ringer also called MTU is used by the telephone company to test the phone line remotely.
Removing the little sucker instantly solved my problem, I would have never known about half-ringers, but MrFixitCT solved this problem for me. The waterproof telephone wire connectors are available at radio shack, they make the job a snap.
Joe

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reply to Rit

said by Rit:

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What is a half ringer, and what does removing it do? Is it some thing that I (located in Connecticut using a regular SBC DSL connection) would benefit from?

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reply to Rit
Isn't a half-ringer normally called a "leaner"?
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said by Schnook:

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Isn't [it] normally called a "leaner"?

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sometimes i hate bbr/google.

»www.google.com/search?sourceid=n···f+ringer
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said by odog:

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sometimes i hate bbr/google.

»www.google.com/search?sourceid=n···f+ringer

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