 KA3SGM- -... ...- -Premium
join:2006-01-17
West Chester, PA
 ·Verizon FiOS
 ·Cricket Broadband
| Battery Backup??? VoIP doesn't work when the power goes out, unlike the (8 hour) battery backup that the regular Fios phone service provides.
How are they going to sell that unfortunate downside???
Anyone up on phreaking the ONT to keep the Internet port running until the battery backup is completely exhausted???
Plugging the BBU into an UPS has already been done, but many people are clueless as to how Fios handles power failures, this sounds like a bad idea.
So much for their 99.999% telephone reliability claims  |
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| It already has battery backup . . . the last sentence of the linked article says Existing FiOS customers are eligible to switch to Digital Voice, which Gonzalez said is enabled through a software update to the optical network terminal (ONT) device at the customer premises.
The VoIP functionality is part of the ONT, and therefore has built-in battery backup. The VoIP functionality has nothing to do with the dataport. It doesn't require an external ATA. I'm sure that five-nines reliability will not be an issue. |
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said by KA3SGM:VoIP doesn't work when the power goes out, unlike the (8 hour) battery backup that the regular Fios phone service provides. How are they going to sell that unfortunate downside??? Anyone up on phreaking the ONT to keep the Internet port running until the battery backup is completely exhausted??? Plugging the BBU into an UPS has already been done, but many people are clueless as to how Fios handles power failures, this sounds like a bad idea. So much for their 99.999% telephone reliability claims If they're smart, they'll just route it through the phone line portion of the ONT... that operates on battery... we're only talking about a soft switch (in the c/o) which can put anything on that spectrum... even funky elevator music if they wanted, video.. phones (unlikely). What is unclear though, is if there was a major disruption to power in the area... would internet generally work to provide service.. or would they make failsafe routing to the pstn? |
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 HarleyYacYacoPremium
join:2001-10-13
Allendale, NJ
kudos:1 | reply to KA3SGM
Hi,
Aren't Cox,TW,Comcast,OOL all VOIP?
Lee |
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mrvid
join:2007-06-19
Levittown, NY | reply to tmc8080
actually I think the answer the the question is right at the bottom of the verizon digital voice page, either click the link in the article or the one below and scroll to the bottom...
»promo.verizon.com/fiosdigitalvoicedemo/
and the answer is yes, 8hrs of backup battery talk time
As far as price, I imagine if cable is already offering similar phone service for cheaper, Verizon will likely have to at least lower their costs to that level if not lower. |
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I've a SmartUps1500 that runs just my router. I'm sure I can get atleast 4 hours...
But then again, I've a cellphone. And a solar-crank charger thing incase of emergencies. Almost infinite juice (till the battery refuses to charge).
If my cell reception wasn't so shielded, I'd drop the landline.
What gripes me more about Verizon is that it doesn't allow you to disable the cellphone greetings, login to a call central to download calls (like WAV or mp3 files), to login anywhere and check/make calls...like Vonage. Oh, and bye Vonage...this will surely be the end.
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