[BC] POTS reliability...

[Broadcast List USER]

Well, POTS is the most reliable service.

I have kept one POTS line at my house.  I have had as many as seven  
VoIP lines, for local and Toll Free lines.

Right now, I have even more, with FX numbers from other cities (In- 
Laws, Parents, and so on.  I have MANY local numbers around the  
country.)

The POTS line is for the alarm system, the credit card machine, the  
fax machine (when it is plugged in), and a way for me to get into the  
Internet from remote locations, via a toll free number when in really  
bad locations.

I can get on at about 33.6 kBPS from remote locations via modem,  I t  
can be much worse from the real backwater locations in the US.

--chip

On Apr 24, 2010, at 9:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 1
> From: "Burt I. Weiner" <biwa at att.net>
>
> 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