More than a decade ago, Verizon installed low tier fiber
optic Internet to my home. The fiber itself is single
mode - the good stuff that can (with repeaters) connect
nations across oceans. In theory, they could have
provided terabit ethernet from their switch, though
the cost of multiple terabi
On Tue, 7 Mar 2023, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
Verizon sold their wireline and fiber service to Frontier, a company which
sorta kinda sucked. So I switched to Comcast cable, which also sort kinda
sucks. "Boil-the- Frog" increasing pricing, and increasing latency.
Then Frontier sold to Ziply, which h
"Anyway, single-mode fiber seems like a much more efficient,
spectrum-thrifty, and "ecological" way to move bits, than
towers and microwave-mmwave transmitters and the occasional
radar-blinded aircraft."
If only people did what is the most efficient & "ecological".
I've been using the most effic
I can't get Comcast VOIP to handle my HP fax machine. Yes, I occasionally
still have to send a fax. Does anyone know how Ziply does with a fax
machine?
Thanks,
--Seth
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 3:26 PM MC_Sequoia wrote:
> "Anyway, single-mode fiber seems like a much more efficient,
> spectrum-thri
I would not expect a fax to work on their voip product.
More tragic from my perspective, pulse dialing doesn't work.
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023, 18:38 Seth Alford wrote:
> I can't get Comcast VOIP to handle my HP fax machine. Yes, I occasionally
> still have to send a fax. Does anyone know how Ziply d
It's part of all
newer fax machines.
Ted
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I can't get Comcast VOIP to handle
port this protocol. It's part of
> all newer fax machines.
>
> Ted
>
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2023, Russell Senior wrote:
I would not expect a fax to work on their voip product.
Yep. Mine's dead. Not sure what to do with it.
More tragic from my perspective, pulse dialing doesn't work.
Well, if it's dead it has no pulse.
Rich
On Wed, 8 Mar 2023, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
They use a box that has a chip in it where it converts the fax tones from
your fax machine to some protocol I forget the name of (fax over internet)
then when that protocol comes out into the PTSN it's converted back to a
fax.
Unfortunately your fax
