 bencPremium
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Glen Carbon, IL
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| Duh... Of course people want faster and faster, or at least I do. If money were no object I'd get a DS3 line.
My POTS line is good enough. I can't imagine what would make it better, except perhaps fixed line SMS (I currently refuse to use SMS at all for this reason).
Digital Phone? Forget it. POTS wins, since it has line power.
But Internet? Faster is always better, though of course I like running servers and want to pump more info out to the net.
TV? Bah. Sometimes it's not bad, but usually it's just crap. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Line power isn't as useful if you have overhead wires- if something takes out the power lines they'll probably also take out the phone lines, which are lower.
Even telcos are giving up on powered lines- Verizon's FiOS works on the same principles as digital POTS systems rather than VoIP, but still requires power company power. at&t's "U-Verse Voice" upgrade is a VoIP based system that also doesn't use line power... |
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said by benc:Of course people want faster and faster, or at least I do. If money were no object I'd get a DS3 line. Think big, little man. If money was no object would you really want yesterdays DS3? At least think OC-48's or OC-192's. 
DS3 makes you sound like an MSO that wants to cry foul and implement usage caps.  |
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bencPremium
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said by EPS:Line power isn't as useful if you have overhead wires- if something takes out the power lines they'll probably also take out the phone lines, which are lower. Wouldn't digital phone have the same shortcoming?
In my experience, the power sometimes goes out, but POTS doesn't. I'm sure I might have experienced POTS going out, but that hasn't happened to me for so long, that I can't remember it.
said by EPS:Even telcos are giving up on powered lines- Verizon's FiOS works on the same principles as digital POTS systems rather than VoIP, but still requires power company power. at&t's "U-Verse Voice" upgrade is a VoIP based system that also doesn't use line power... I've heard that, and they're even cheaper than POTS. But, if I had a choice I'd always choose POTS.
As far as whether U-Verse Voice or FIOS-phone is an "upgrade" is debatable. To me, it's a step backwards.
Without line power, how am I supposed to complain to the power company if the power goes out? |
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bencPremium
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said by Pictor Guy:said by benc:Of course people want faster and faster, or at least I do. If money were no object I'd get a DS3 line. Think big, little man. If money was no object would you really want yesterdays DS3? At least think OC-48's or OC-192's. DS3 makes you sound like an MSO that wants to cry foul and implement usage caps. Good call. Why be stuck with a DS3?
I just said DS3 because I'm stuck with 1.5Mbps, so DS3 seems fast.
And how dare you suggest that I want caps? Caps are definitely a bad thing, and stifle the Internet and innovation. |
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