[BC] POTS reliability...

[Burt I. Weiner]

I may be old fashioned, but I'm not ready to give up my copper (such 
as it's still copper) for VOIP.  Every once in a while my internot 
goes out but I still have my POTS connection to the C.O.  Well, there 
was the great wind of '92 that took down some poles, but that's what 
Ham Radio is all about.

When the great wind of '92 took down the (telephone) poles in our 
neighborhood it pulled the wires right off the side of the house.  I 
found the wires about 200' up the street, ID'd my lines, hooked up a 
box of CAT-3 and extended it back to our protector.  It was about 4 
day's until the phone company replaced the (telephone) poles.

Burt

>
>Tom Taggart wrote:
> > They've got to be kidding??? Right???
> >
> > Do these clowns have any idea on how most people get broadband?
> >
> >
>Well, DSL is now delivered by fiber, to the neighborhood. Then to copper
>from neighborhood box to home.
>
>Neighborhood box has limited battery life, no genset. NO power = no DSL
>= no POTS either.
>
>Ask folks in Houston, after IKE took conventional power away for 2 weeks
>in some areas.