said by danclan:said by Carnivore:Wish I could still get copper landline service in combination with FiOS TV & Internet. My useless FiOS FE landline went down within 6 hours of losing power during Sandy and we were out for a week. Copper always stayed up during power outages no matter what.
There are plenty of anecdotal stories to counter your one experience as well. Each has it's own issues.
Carnivore's issue, and apparently others as well, is that the BBU powering the ONT was the problem. True, it's anecdotal and perhaps a very small subset of storm-related experiences. »
Re: Powering ONT without BBU?Not sure that staying on copper is the answer, but it does make one question how robust the CPE system actually is.
It would be informative to have a peek at the numbers for the outage experience to see the larger picture.