30 Mar
2007
30 Mar
'07
4:35 p.m.
it's -kind- of a normal POTS interface, it is part of a cable-modem (at least
the one we got when we got digital voice) and in a power outage... you're stewed
after a couple hours , we had the cable modem with the telephone jack on it
plugged in to a UPS that gave it a couple hours runtime beyond what it's
internal battery gave during the big windstorms that hit washington a few months
ago, and we had telephone up until the local cable POP battery backups went flat.
and no, they don't do pulse dialing.
Quoting Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org>:
On Friday 30 March 2007 17:11, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 30 Mar 2007 at 15:06, der Mouse wrote:
How about the digital phone setups? Qwest and Comcast keeps flogging
them, but it's not clear what sort of interface they have on the
subscriber end.
It's a normal POTS interface. It's possible that it won't do
pulse-dialing, though.
Pat
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--and the
CO out here still understands pulse dialing.
Are there COs that don't? I thought *everyone* understood pulse.