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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