Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Openurmind
Land lines still work if the power is out.

Beware that what you think of as a land line might not be one ...

If your "land line" is carried through cable or fiber, it's not a land line and it goes down when the power goes down.

27 posted on 04/03/2024 8:16:11 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies ]


To: NorthMountain

Yes, of course, I am talking about battery backed up traditional copper landlines.


59 posted on 04/03/2024 8:41:47 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies ]

To: NorthMountain

MY land line is on a system that has buried wires put in about 50 years ago.


71 posted on 04/03/2024 9:00:11 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies ]

To: NorthMountain

My fiber is backed up by generators at the phone company.

My house has a UPS powering the fiber-to-wire converter.

I have a generator in the barn.

(And... two old, perfectly good CB radios collecting dust in the garage.)


120 posted on 04/03/2024 5:38:53 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson