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During covid, one of the things The White House noticed was people in rural areas had horrible internet capabilities when they realized many kids were unable to go to school on their computers at home... not enough bandwidth or a large enough data plan for all that video streaming back and forth with the rest of the class. I remember them talking about it on the news one week. The White House said they were going to give the internet companies subsidies to put real internet in these areas. Well son-of-a-gun... they actually did it! My parents' neighborhood was one of the first in our area to get it. Got them hooked up 2 months ago. Now they have fast internet, all kinds of tv stations for a lot less money, the house is now tricked out with all kinds of Alexa devices, and no more cel phone issues. And those hot-spots are now all in the garbage. Speaking to a internet rep in Walmart one day... he showed me on a map where my neighborhood will be getting the same thing in the next year! That means I can stop relying on hot-spots as well! Now that they have all these capabilities in their home, I will likely look into hooking them a house phone up via the internet. There has been a time or two in which I was there, but since no one was home, there was no phone for me to use.
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Cannot easily disable the phone line with a simple pair of wire cutters, too.
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Cut the cord!
Last time I posted here, I mentioned that my phone bill was at $70. That was in 2019. Recently, it hit $105, and I finally had enough!
My cel phone is thru Verizon, and I found they had a cellular home phone service for about $25... and I got to port my original AT&T phone number. I am thinking this is the same service that n8nagel mentioned a few posts ago. I have a little white box that picks up the cel signal, generates a dial tone, and acts just like the copper line. Plug your phone into it and presto! Works great. I went outside and disconnected the wiring in the AT&T box on the house, and then plugged my white box directly into one of my phone jacks, and it sent the dial tone all throughout the house. So now, even the old phone on the wall works. The only drawback (which is one I expected) is that I am not able to dial out with my rotary phones... but I have a cordless phone that I can use. My rotary phones ring loud and work great when an incoming call comes in! There is also a battery in the white box that lasts for several hours if the power goes out. My old Sony answering machine also works just fine with it. Considering this is 80 dollars cheaper than what I was previously paying, I think the system works great and I am very satisfied!
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I too disconnected the old line from the terminal box on the house. It was inducing an AC hum into the phone line. And I plugged the modem into one of the jacks in the house which connected all the house phones to the VoIP system. The AT&T installer at the time told me that wouldn't work! He had no idea why I had a hum on the line either. After he left I fixed it myself by disconnecting the old drop line from the pole to the house, wound up the wire and tossed over the fence. They have let the old wire system deteriorate like someone else mentioned with plastic bags over the terminal boxes etc. |
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That is a very nice collection of pioneer era phones, too bad the 600 ohm POTS loop has all but disappeared. I used to do a lot with the dedicated lines be it dry pairs or MUX'd during my 2-way radio days. Old systems relied on 20ma DC loops that often spanned 20+ wire miles and for voice they sounded great. More modern stuff was tone controlled running -16 dbm for things like SpectraTAC receivers voters and base stations, if you knew what to listen for you could tell if it was a dry pair just by the audio quality. Now it's all digital and sounds like vocoder crap.
Growing up our home telephone number prefix was PArkway-4 which was the name of the office, we still had a live operator through the mid-70s. Where I'm at now I can't get a copper pair to save my life. We have Century Link and it's all overpriced fiber, the alternative is MIDCO and they're just as pricey. Yeah progress is wonderful but I do miss the sound of my punchdown tool on a virgin 66-block. |
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Nice one that bakelite phone.
In Romania, V.o.I.P. only allows tone mode, so you need an adaptor for pulse mode. |
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