| Info 4-8 hours sounds about right. Motorola is working on a ONT that has a standby mode that will put the ONT into a sleep/hibernate mode when the power goes out. The ONT will wake when the consumer picks up the phone. I would not be surprised if this feature extended the unpowered ONT from 4-8 hours to MANY weeks. Incoming calls would not work obvously.
Also, my understanding is that Verizon does not Garantee incoming (when operating on batteries) calls since some customers may have older, or too many, sets that require more ringing current than the battery operating ONT can put out. This is similar to the TA adapter on VOIP providers. |
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 napilus
join:2006-03-26
Hillsboro, OR | There is not enough juice in the battery to get ring voltage. And I think it should be pointed out again that comcrap digital voice and all voip services have no battery backup capability. Fios is absolutely the best alternative to cable and dsl, you get business class speeds for 34.95 a month. |
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| I can see Vonage not having a battery backup simply because it requires you internet to work and if you modem is dead then there is no point in powering their phone adapter/router . Comcast I am surprised at though, one would think that they would be smart enough to use a phone adapter with battery backup capabilities. |
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You are incorrect about Comcrap and all VoIP services not having battery backup. Comcrap like Charter and other cable co's do offer a battery backup.
I cannot speak for every area with VoIP service, but I can tell you in my area battery backup is provided. |
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