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| | I hope they are not dead yet Living in hurricane area, I need to have a land line. I went through hurricane wilma and lost all utilities except for my landline for around 2 weeks. If I had voip then, I would have been out of luck. Also most of the voip providers are not compatible with home alarms. I know because I have checked. Around my area comcast is but sure as hell if the power went out, there goes the cable and anything riding on it. So, no, I am not ready to give up my landline just yet.
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|  | | Re: I hope they are not dead yet If the power goes out comcast signal still goes through. They have diesel generators at the head end capable of running cable signal while the power is out. And if the hurricans take down a power poles then you lose your landline as well as they are on those same power poles. | |
| | | | Re: I hope they are not dead yet They may have diesel generators at the head end but you forgot about all those nice green amplifier boxes all over the neighborhoods that hold batteries to keep the amplifiers running for about 4-6 hours during an outage. Sure during a small outage they work fine or if there is an extended outage in one area they can stick a portable generator on it but the fact is during a hurricane your SOL when those batteries die even if you have a generator at your house you will loose service.
Now before someone says Verizon FiOS does this too they do not. FiOS has no amplifiers in the field so as long as the CO has power or fuel for there generators and the lines are not torn in half then anyone else down the line who has power can still watch TV, use the internet or make a call. As for there POTS over Fiber they have a battery in the house that will run the phones for 8-10 hours standby and 1-2 hours if your using it and it will shutdown before it is dead so that you can use a button on the battery to make an emergency call if you need to.
All of this is from experience, Yes I do have a generator and when we had a hurricane come through here a few years ago we lost power for 15 hours and the cable died after 5 hours because the batteries died in the amps (Sadly this was before FiOS was available), so far with FiOS we have never lost anything during an outage. But in any case if the wires become shredded it wont matter anyway you will loose all services until they come out and re-splice all the coax/fiber/copper and electrical lines. | |
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kudos:12 | said by bobgwen:Living in hurricane area, I need to have a land line. I went through hurricane wilma and lost all utilities except for my landline for around 2 weeks. If I had voip then, I would have been out of luck. Also most of the voip providers are not compatible with home alarms. I know because I have checked. Around my area comcast is but sure as hell if the power went out, there goes the cable and anything riding on it. So, no, I am not ready to give up my landline just yet. During Katrina, landlines were out for weeks. able came back u in a lot of areas before POTS did. | |
| | | | Re: I hope they are not dead yet During Katrina a lot of landlines were FINE..
Until the tree cutters and ELECTRIC company people cut and damaged the telco plant while installing new poles or new power lines/transformers..
I know.. I was there... The local phone network held up a lot better then most people know...(they didnt move back in until power was restored and thats when phone line damage was done) | |
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| fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | Your landline is just as vulnerable as any other service is. Cable has batteries in each node. Power lines can go down.. gas lines can break... phone lines are on the same poles that cable is and any poles that go down, so can your phone service. If phone lines are up and you have DSL powering your voip, then you have voip.
Cellular service is and can be much more reliable in a hurricane than a land line as there are far fewer points of problems.
In the end, hurricane areas, earth quake areas, the deep frozen lands, etc... EVERY service is subject to interruptions in bad weather... even cellular service if THAT link is disrupted. The fact that your land line service remained up was just pure luck or coincidence. I can tell you a story of a tornado and straight line winds that ripped through my area and the only service up and running was my Comcast DIGITAL phone service.. Qwest was no where to be found for 2 days.
I'm just not able to see your logic on your post... it's based on a personal example and not practical reality. | |
| | | | Re: I hope they are not dead yet said by fiberguy:I'm just not able to see your logic on your post... it's based on a personal example and not practical reality. Yes it is personal example. Where I was there was no cell service for miles, no provider was working. No cable tv anywhere. Power and phone poles were knocked over. No power any where for miles. The only thing working was my landline. Since it was the only thing working, I guess all the phone cables were buried. And, yes, I am basing what I am going to do on my personal experience. I was able to call out to family to tell them we were ok. The area I am in now, all the phone cables are buried. Cable tv is up there on the power poles along with the power lines and will be knocked down in a hurricane. I won't take that chance not being able to call in a storm disaster.
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| | | fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | Re: I hope they are not dead yet Even in underground areas, there is a large chance that the phone service providing service to your underground cables are running over head at some point... so, as you said, it's a personal experience.
However, there are plenty of underground areas, such as where I live, that are fed by over head lines.. and I'm talking phone, cable, and power..
Again, it does all depend on what happens in the storm and where it hits.. in the end, it's all a crap shoot. Additionally, you can have over head cable lines in your area, and PART of that service could be fed by underground cable tv lines at some point as well.
All if takes is ANY part of any operators plant to be affected and it can take your service down. The next storm, you can have no phone but still have cable. | |
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