Interestingly a couple years ago we had a case where the DSL always worked but telephone went out in the rain. A service guy came out and found a 1" piece of insulation missing on the wire from the pole to the house, replaced that and its been fine ever since.
Strange that DSL always worked even when the phone didn't... -Curt Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:33:49 -0700 From: Craig <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Home phone on the super cheap, $40 upfront , $0 monthly. 3enumeda Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:15:43 -0800 (PST) Curt Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > Remember for all these VOIP services if the internet is down so is your > phone... With the amount of time our DSL line has been down this year, VOIP would be a bad idea. The land-line telephone still works, though. > I keep a proper landline because of the astonishing up time of our > phone provider. Even when I could see the line laying in the street > during the ice storm of '08 it still worked. Ma Bell has had a lot of experience in getting POTS reliable. Craig _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
