| The Ideal situation... ...I have heard that in some cases they have turned off the dial tone on the copper. The line now being run on the fiber for your phone service. However when tested the copper line was still powered. I figure it shouldn't be too hard to wire in a transformer capable of taking line power and turning it into enough juice (12V DC, for most routers I have run across, although I don't know the specific needs the one they are using for FIOS) to power the router.
Thats the one thing that still confuses the hell out of me, it used to be a selling/advertising point that the phone had 99.9999999% uptime, the power could go out and the phone still worked. (I remember that in the 80's when a hurricane killed the power at my parents house for 13 days, but the phone never stopped working.) It seems funny that with fiber that all goes away. I assume in someway it cheaper for the phone company since they No longer have to buy/generate as much power. However having the phone work for 8 hours for so, and then losing it seems unpleasant to me. |
