Craig, Is there some sort of irony that you live in a place like Los Alamos and you can't get decent DSL?
Or is it because the Lab takes up all the bandwidth? <grin> Dan On Dec 10, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: > 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 _______________________________________ 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
