[PVRCNC] OT -cable telephone

[Kent Winrich]

Lemme take a swing at some of these.

I have had VoIP for about 5 years now.  I will NEVER EVER go back.  I
briefly lived in an area that I had to go with Embarq.  We never gave
out the phone number but surprisingly, our phone kept ringing...
telemarketers.  Thanks and good by Embarq.

Back on Topic.....

1) Cable modem can be place where ever you want it (you just need a
cable line going to it).  I put mine in an office where I have a phone
line port to send out the phone to the rest of the house.  I use
wireless for most of the THIRTEEN computers we have in our compound.

In regards to power... I use a UPS to keep the cable modem and VoIP
routers running.  Just because you are running a UPS/gen set, doesnt
mean you will have service.  If power is cut to the cable lines that
feed your house, you are out of service.  If you dont have cable you
wont have phone service.  Hasnt happened that often to me.

2) Interfacing... I use a phone line splitter (2 female jacks to one
male plug) and plug the VoIP unit into that and plug the adpater into
the wall to feed the other phones.  If your phones need power (for
caller ID or whatever) you will need to supply that power.  The VoIP
units do not (that I am aware of)  The VoIP box has a standard RJ-45
jack.

3) Your phone run just like they do when connected to a standard phone
line.  Do see what would make them any different here.

4) RF -- No difference here.  If you had Rf troubles before you will
still have them as more than liely you are picking up RF through the
lines in the house.

Others -- I am so used to dialing area codes for all numbers at this
point.  If you are not already used to that you are lucky -- I guess.
No numbers for long distance.

No other gotchas I can think of.  Have fun making a ton of calls, not
having to deal with friggin Embarq, paying 50% less and laughing all
the way to the bank.

Kent Winrich - Lost, but not gone
K9EZ/4
Fuquay Varina, North (by gawd) Carolina
b0zo # 133
www.ab0zo.com



On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Brian Alsop <alsopb at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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