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Home Phone Connect Query
Self | July 4, 2014 | self

Posted on 07/04/2014 12:20:10 PM PDT by bboop

Does anybody have Verizon Home Phone Connect, and if you do, how do you like it? and do you find it useful? We are concerned that if we get it, our Verizon DSL might be impacted. It would be great to cut our home landline contract, but we're worried about losing the DSL.

Thanks. Loving my FReeper FRiends. Happy Fourth of July.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: contract; dsl; internet; phone; phoneservice; verizon
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1 posted on 07/04/2014 12:20:10 PM PDT by bboop
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To: bboop
The kids got me DSL recently. I haven't had a land line since I moved back into the old home place in 2007.

/johnny

2 posted on 07/04/2014 12:22:54 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: bboop

No idea — but why don’t you ask Verizon? They are the ones who could tell you definitively.


3 posted on 07/04/2014 12:24:28 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: JRandomFreeper

land line should be land line telephone. Obviously there is a twisted pair for DSL to work.


4 posted on 07/04/2014 12:25:27 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: bboop

I don’t understand Your question. Is this about how to connect wire to make land line work or some change in Your Service Contract?


5 posted on 07/04/2014 12:26:36 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
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To: mabarker1
Sounds like a VOIP phone service versus POTS.

/johnny

6 posted on 07/04/2014 12:28:24 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Is bboop wanting to add/connect a land line to existing DSL service?

HAPPY 4th Everybody!

7 posted on 07/04/2014 12:29:44 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS)???


8 posted on 07/04/2014 12:31:17 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
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God Save King George!

I have no idea. Would a mind reader have 3 ex wives?

/johnny

9 posted on 07/04/2014 12:31:17 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

ROFLMAOPIMP!


10 posted on 07/04/2014 12:31:52 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
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To: mabarker1
Plain Old Telephone Service.

/johnny

11 posted on 07/04/2014 12:31:56 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper; bboop
As far as I know you just plug in a "filter box" in the split jack and the DSL keeps working and the phone shares with the DSL.

HAPPY 4th Everybody!

12 posted on 07/04/2014 12:39:32 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
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To: bboop

You really should do some research and as I said ASK VERIZON.

I just checked on the Internet and found that “Verizon Home Phone Connect” is basically having ONLY wireless phone service. But in those, if you use that to access the internet, they will limit how much internet data you can download and they can charge you quite a lot for it.

Not to mention, if there is a power outage that lasts a while and you won’t have a phone or internet or anything else...

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/device/home-phone-connect?&zipRdr=y

Also:

“NOTE: Home Phone Connect may not be compatible with certain home security systems. Please check with your home security system provider to confirm the compatibility requirements of your home security system. Home Phone Connect is not compatible with fax machines, DVR services, credit card machines, medical alert services or some High Speed or DSL Internet services. Please contact your service provider to determine if Internet service is available as a standalone offering. “

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/device/home-phone-connect


13 posted on 07/04/2014 12:39:56 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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Not to mention, if there is a power outage that lasts a while and you won’t have a phone or internet or anything else...

That's why God made batteries, inverters, and in extremis, gensets.

/johnny

14 posted on 07/04/2014 12:42:56 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: bboop

There’s really no need to cling to landlines here in 2014. In my household, everybody just carries around a cellphone. No telemarketers, I only pick up my cellphone if somebody from my address book is calling me. Otherwise it goes straight to voicemail.


15 posted on 07/04/2014 12:43:44 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: mabarker1
If you separate your DSL contract from your phone contract, the universe can implode. The company that runs the wires out to your house really want all of that business, and will get snippy about it.

It's a sociological problem, not a technical problem.

/johnny

16 posted on 07/04/2014 12:44:55 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: bboop

I have it all on verison, I can’t say I’ve had any
trouble with the phone service, although I am thinking
of dropping the phone service and just having my cell.
I wish I had DSL, where I am the download speed is not
very good and sometimes disconnects, they tell me I need
a special receiver for my hotspot for $250.
I feel like I pay for 4g but I’m not getting it.
May switch to something else later.


17 posted on 07/04/2014 12:47:22 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: bboop

Straight Talk Home Phone (Is NOT VoIP or landline)
$15 month unlimited North America or $30 month unlimited world-wide
http://www.straighttalk.com/wps/portal/home/shop/otherdevices/ShopHomePhones


18 posted on 07/04/2014 12:53:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: bboop

DSL goes via your phone line.

If you drop your landline, your DSL will have to go through your wireless phone and you will pay for the data accessed on internet.

Here are some prices:

http://www.verizonwireless.com/wcms/consumer/shop/shop-data-plans/more-everything.html


19 posted on 07/04/2014 12:56:39 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: bboop

If you have internet, you can obtain a device such as “Net Talk.”

They will arrange for your old landline number to be ported to their device, and you will now have phone service over the internet. VOIP, or voice over internet provider, is the name.

My Net Talk device cost under $50. They now have a wireless version. They charge about $35 per year for the service.

I used to spend over $35 for minimal use of the old land line number.

There are several VOIP options, many costing far more.


20 posted on 07/04/2014 1:01:10 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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