BobF
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Phone jacks
How many of you still use them?
I have to as part of my DSL service. I don't think it's a technical requirement.
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/07 12:58:23
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I haven't had a land line since 2005. Superficially, I regret getting rid of it because it was a prestigious 212 number which you can't get in Manhattan any more. Practically, I haven't missed it once.
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Ham N Egz
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/07 16:21:50
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I STILL have POTS service its dependable always dial tone , no echo, no lost VOIP service no issues when power goes out ..
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Glyn Barnes
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 02:59:59
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Three phones on the landline. At least 75% of call are on the landline. We tend to only use the mobiles when out of the house.
I prefer the ergonomics of the house phone.
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kennywtelejazz
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 05:18:07
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I had a land line up until about a year ago and I miss not having a land line .
Century Link decided to jack up my rates throughout the roof after 10 years with them .
Worst customer service in the world ….so I cut it loose ..
Kenny
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BobF
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 08:15:49
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kennywtelejazz
I had a land line up until about a year ago and I miss not having a land line .
Century Link decided to jack up my rates throughout the roof after 10 years with them .
Worst customer service in the world ….so I cut it loose ..
Kenny
Centurylink/Centurytel is who I get internet and DSL with as well as SatTeeVee. Dish kept the rates creeping up a bit at a time, so after 9 years I called CenturyLink to have Dish turned off. They made me such a sweet 2 year, no contract deal on DirecTeeVee I'm giving it a go. My total bill dropped $75/mo and is locked for the 2 years. In 2 years I figure my virtual cord cutting options will be even better - but I'm liking DirecTV right now. I already have NetFlix that I use primarily for my work-out time. Exercise goes better for me with a A/V distraction. I do like the regular, cordless handsets better than cell phones so I have 3 as long as I have the service anyway, plus one older corded TT handset for power outages. They swear we'll get be getting Big City-like internet service next year when the fiber installation is completed. They're claiming 20Mb down/10Mb up. If I get half of that I'll be screamin' joy in comparison to the 3.8Mb down/.75Mb up service I have now. Coffee ...
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Ham N Egz
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 09:31:35
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BobF
kennywtelejazz
I had a land line up until about a year ago and I miss not having a land line .
Century Link decided to jack up my rates throughout the roof after 10 years with them .
Worst customer service in the world ….so I cut it loose ..
Kenny
Centurylink/Centurytel is who I get internet and DSL with as well as SatTeeVee. Dish kept the rates creeping up a bit at a time, so after 9 years I called CenturyLink to have Dish turned off. They made me such a sweet 2 year, no contract deal on DirecTeeVee I'm giving it a go. My total bill dropped $75/mo and is locked for the 2 years.
In 2 years I figure my virtual cord cutting options will be even better - but I'm liking DirecTV right now. I already have NetFlix that I use primarily for my work-out time. Exercise goes better for me with a A/V distraction.
I do like the regular, cordless handsets better than cell phones so I have 3 as long as I have the service anyway, plus one older corded TT handset for power outages.
They swear we'll get be getting Big City-like internet service next year when the fiber installation is completed. They're claiming 20Mb down/10Mb up. If I get half of that I'll be screamin' joy in comparison to the 3.8Mb down/.75Mb up service I have now.
Coffee ...
Wow Bob, they promise FIBER and only 20/10? I just dropped my cable internet cause they kept jacking up the price on me, but I was getting 60 mb over cable no FTTC/H, cause I am out in the sticks
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 10:10:19
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Come to think of it, I do have a telephone here. It works, but I've never used it. Used to be a landline, later retained for a DSL connection. Nowadays it's plugged into my (FiOS) modem.
I should try it and see how well it works. It's gotta be better than my cell phone. Two cans and a string would be better than my cell phone, if they could take snapshots.
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BobF
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 10:27:06
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Ham N Egz
BobF
kennywtelejazz
I had a land line up until about a year ago and I miss not having a land line .
Century Link decided to jack up my rates throughout the roof after 10 years with them .
Worst customer service in the world ….so I cut it loose ..
Kenny
Centurylink/Centurytel is who I get internet and DSL with as well as SatTeeVee. Dish kept the rates creeping up a bit at a time, so after 9 years I called CenturyLink to have Dish turned off. They made me such a sweet 2 year, no contract deal on DirecTeeVee I'm giving it a go. My total bill dropped $75/mo and is locked for the 2 years.
In 2 years I figure my virtual cord cutting options will be even better - but I'm liking DirecTV right now. I already have NetFlix that I use primarily for my work-out time. Exercise goes better for me with a A/V distraction.
I do like the regular, cordless handsets better than cell phones so I have 3 as long as I have the service anyway, plus one older corded TT handset for power outages.
They swear we'll get be getting Big City-like internet service next year when the fiber installation is completed. They're claiming 20Mb down/10Mb up. If I get half of that I'll be screamin' joy in comparison to the 3.8Mb down/.75Mb up service I have now.
Coffee ...
Wow Bob, they promise FIBER and only 20/10?
I just dropped my cable internet cause they kept jacking up the price on me, but I was getting 60 mb over cable no FTTC/H, cause I am out in the sticks
Cable is no option here. Maybe I'm further out in the boonies :) I'm they're planning to constrain to minimize facility requirements. I don't blame them. I did a stint in wireless years ago that obviously req'd interface between cell sites and terrestrial facilities. There are never enough facilities.
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Moshkito
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 10:36:35
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Hi,
All jacks here. We even wired the apartment so you can get cable and internet in the main bedroom and small bedroom.
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Glyn Barnes
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 10:56:51
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Trouble is we have "Fiber" internet. But the fibers go to a box a quater of a mile away. Its copper from there.
We have "up to" 38 mb/s but in reality get half that. Seems to be fine for everything but the Grandsons X-Box. Boy do they eat some bandwidth.
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bapu
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 11:41:31
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Land line is for fax. We get about 20 spam faxes a month and send about 5 a year. When I upgraded to FiOS with Verizon, they just let me keep the land line as a "bonus". It used to cost $40/mo along with $65/mo for 10/6 DSL.
FiOS cost me $95 for 75/75. Of course NI's site is still throttled at about 3.2. Sheesh.
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BobF
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 11:42:56
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Moshkito
Hi,
All jacks here. We even wired the apartment so you can get cable and internet in the main bedroom and small bedroom.
I can't believe it's been 9 years already, but when we were building this house I wired Cat5e and 3G coax throughout the house. At the point of presence from the telco, the DSL goes into the modem, then to a gigabit switch. Everything inside goes to the switch to keep intranet traffic for NAS & peer-to-peer off of the modem. The only exception is SWMBO's work machine that goes straight to the modem for it's VPN. It's worked very well for almost a decade now ...
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BobF
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 11:43:36
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bapu
Land line is for fax. We get about 20 spam faxes a month and send about 5 a year. When I upgraded to FiOS with Verizon, they just let me keep the land line as a "bonus". It used to cost $40/mo along with $65/mo for 10/6 DSL.
FiOS cost me $95 for 75/75. Of course NI's site is still throttled at about 3.2. Sheesh.
Why do you send SPAM faxes? 
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bapu
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 11:45:13
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BobF
bapu
Land line is for fax. We get about 20 spam faxes a month and send about 5 a year. When I upgraded to FiOS with Verizon, they just let me keep the land line as a "bonus". It used to cost $40/mo along with $65/mo for 10/6 DSL.
FiOS cost me $95 for 75/75. Of course NI's site is still throttled at about 3.2. Sheesh.
Why do you send SPAM faxes?
To get back for the juans we get.
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Ham N Egz
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 11:52:09
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How do you get the spam in the slot?  
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bapu
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/08 12:26:00
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Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Moshkito
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Re: Phone jacks
2015/12/09 09:50:06
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Hi,
Comcast here in Vancouver, WA is almost $80 bux ... and there is no competition here, as Clear came and went, with their prairie patty kind of service.
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