[PVRCNC] OT -cable telephone

[Brian Alsop]

Guys,

Switching from landline to cable telephone via Time Warner.
The economic arguments just got too overwhelming.

Looking for others experience.  Only know that it will require a 
telephone modem hooked to the same coax as the Internet modem.

Things that I couldn't get answered.  Anybody I asked these questions to 
had no clue.

1) Where is the cable modem located?  Does simply supplying it with 
generator power during power outages restore all capabilities-- 
including the local 911 kluge?
2) How is the cable modem interfaced with existing telephones?  Most 
phones here derive their power from the phone line and presumably the 
installation process will allow the same. 
3) Is there some "volume control"  to bump up volume some relative to 
the landline. 
4) What about the potential for RFI?  We don't intefer currently with 
the internet service or landline. 
 
I'm looking forward to not paying 50% of my phone bill to taxes and 
special interest groups.
I'm also looking forward to not having to call out Embarq 4 to 5 times 
per year to get rid of the loud hum on the phone line.

What unadvertised "gotcha's" are there?   Thinking of something like 
having to dial lots of extra digits to access long distance or things 
like that.

73 de Brian/K3KO