[PVRCNC] OT -cable telephone

[Larry stowell]

Brian

I have twc and everything is done outside, my verizon box and twc were next to each other. The house
was wired for cable and phone so I just plug phones in as you would with tel company. If you loose
cable so goes the phone. 

My only complaint is I can't get my combo printers (HP and Lexmark) to reliably send faxes.

73 Larry K1ZW

-----Original Message-----
From: pvrcnc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:pvrcnc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Brian
Alsop
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:59 AM
To: PVRCNC
Subject: [PVRCNC] OT -cable telephone

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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