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What is a landline?
Can I use that with my word processor?
Do you have a 4 track player I might borrow?
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Guilty. But when marketing may call guess who gets that number.
I was told I can only get up to 3 mbps which usually works well enough for Banned videos.
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Got rid of the old copper line connection and have phone over fiber with cable company for awhile now.
All I get is cold calls, the school board, and mother in law...
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I still have a landline.
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Interesting about the waiver.
traditional phone (copper) service, one of the advantages is if power goes out, you still have phone.
Not so if you have VOIP and such, but I'm old school in some respects.
But no, no POTS (plain old telephone service) all done via cell.
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Butt_head no I don't have a 4 track but I do have an 8 track even though I threw away all the tapes about thirty years ago. It's a component set of AM FM, 8 track and turntable. I kept it for the turntable but my son gave me a really nice turntable a few years ago. I have a nice Yamaha amp that's connected to a pair of Pioneer CS 53 speakers I bought in 1971 when I was stationed in Thailand. What is amazing is the speaker in the living room is about 1/5 the size and sound just as good. They do take up a lot of room but still play good. I use to really blast them 40 years ago and they are still going strong.
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Yup I have both the fiber optic as well as the old copper lines.
The copper lines are only there for emergency, in case power goes out and the fiber optic lines are so I can fax docs etc.
Before anyone says that can be done through email - I hate email and only look at mine once a day. I tell everyone to fax me important docs.
The system also works as a filter - if I get a fax I know I've got to look at it now and not put it off.
The emailed stuff I can look at my leisure.
Atticus Finch
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For my elderly Mom, I replaced the POTS land line by porting it to an Ooma box via Spectrum cable Internet. I had been playing with Ooma for a while but the deciding factor about 5 years ago was the local Copper service went out for over a week, so I decided it was time for a move.
The main reason was a cost reduction for a phone line that was barely used, and with the features needed to help minimize nuisance calls it was costing $60/month -- but there were still a couple nuisance calls every day.
When I ported the old family number to Ooma, life improved dramatically. I'm using their feature which allows a whitelist address book so that only those numbers of family/friends/doctors/etc. go through. I have it set up so everyone else goes to voice mail.
Game changing.
No spam calls whatsoever, ever since. Only family and friends go through.
If you have kids and schools may make emergency calls, adjust your options accordingly.
This was a perfect setup for my elderly Mom who would trip over herself rushing to the phone for a sales call. It also prevents the possibility of a phishing scam given her elder years and loss of memory and judgement.
It also utilizes nomorobo if you want that route.
The app is also handy, and was easy to take and make calls and check voice mails elsewhere in the world.
So the box isn't that much money up front, like $80 (and it handles two lines), and the premium service is only $16.95/month for the first line. I disconnected the POTS at the box outside the house, and took the output from the Ooma box and plugged it into an outlet by the router upstairs, so now every hard wire outlet has service.
Of course, now that Mom's gone, the phone almost never rings as most of her friends are gone also, and the family knows to reach me on my cell, so I may drop it altogether.
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Oh, and if you do a battery backup on your cable router and any accessories like this Ooma box, you should survive any power outage.
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(2) lines for (2) different numbers
+ (1) line for fax machine = (3) land lines
Beat that !!!
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