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To: madison10; ridesthemiles

Madison, would you please start a new thread/post on the issue of no landlines re the implications and problems with just fiber.

Please ping me, as the learning curve is very steep and expensive.

You posted:

We have a “land-line,” unfortunately it is through fiber now. If I had known the outcome when the updated the internet, I would have insisted on keeping the old fashioned connection.

We can no longer call if the electricity is out, which is why we kept the land line in the first place.”

Thanks, Dave


113 posted on 12/11/2023 10:05:23 AM PST by Grampa Dave ( Any one, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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To: Grampa Dave

We have one of those ancient dial phones hanging on the wall in our garage.

It has been amazing over the years since it continued to work even when the power was out...because the electric wires are at the top of the telephone poles and trees would take them out but the phone lines remained intact.

I have actually seen downed telephone poles where the phone line remained connected and working.


115 posted on 12/11/2023 10:08:28 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Obey or get canceled.)
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To: Grampa Dave

I will try.


116 posted on 12/11/2023 10:10:23 AM PST by madison10 (He watching over Israel slumbers not, nor sleeps.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Why don’t you start one?


151 posted on 12/22/2023 7:31:39 PM PST by al baby (I know its the way the measure the cooling capability )
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