10 forgotten wonders of 1980s homes

[Jon Elson]

On 12/30/2015 12:39 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
> We just dropped our POTS service last month.  Our phone 
> now is an OOMA VoIP Office system to get the features we 
> wanted/needed.  I haven't tried any rotary dial phones on 
> it since I don't have any.
>
We need the landline phone to call when the cable is out.  
We need the VOIP phone to call when the copper line is out 
(which is more often).
> Where I'm at, I can't get DSL.  Right now I'm dependent 
> upon a dedicated microwave link to my iSP.  I'm getting 
> between 20-35Mb/s symmetric (used to be 10Mb/s but it 
> looks like they upgraded the link recently).  I'm paying 
> $$$'s but since I work from home I need the bandwidth (I'm 
> currently using about 800GB/mo).  I had to put in a 
> point-to-point WiFi link to get internet to the house from 
> my shop (where the microwave dish is).
I can't get DSL here anymore, the lines are WAY too bad for 
that.  I used to have DSL way back when.  I wish I could get 
symmetric cable speeds here, 30/30 would be FANTASTIC, as I 
run a web server here. I live with 60/5, but rumors are that 
we will get upgraded to 100/10 sometime fairly soon.

Jon