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Re: So tell me again why landlines are better?

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:04:36 EDT

anon posted : Ok, Verizon just had outages in TN because it snowed! The towers wher overwhelmed!

Re: So tell me again why landlines are better?

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:10:41 EDT

anon posted : I am very suspicious about this too..sounds to me from my experience that they are switching servers to run though NSA or homeland security.

Re: So tell me again why landlines are better?

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:58:36 EDT

funny posted :

said by morbo:

NSA cable switchover is causing some problems. Hold tight-- your phone, internet, and wireless communications will be 100% monitored by the NSA again very soon.

shhh your not supposed to tell them ... your supposed ot say
Hold tight-- your phone, internet, and wireless communications will be 100% FIXED BY OBAMA FRIENDS very soon.

Re: So tell me again why landlines are better?

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:06:03 EDT

Kipper63 posted : Customers can opt for POTS phone (a real, traditional copper analog telephone line just like it's been for decades) and U-Verse VDSL. That arrangement separates telephone availability from internet service availability.

Dial tone is routed to the VRAD separately from Internet Service, but both travel down copper to the home. That means that if a storm were to cause a tree to fall and take out the line between your home and the VRAD, both phone and internet service would be down even you had POTS and U-Verse VDSL. However, if either U-Verse VDSL or POTS had a separate issue of its own before reaching the VRAD, only one service might be down at a time.

Similarly, for those thinking wireless is superior to a landline, if an issue interrupts the availability of cell towers in your area, your wireless service would be down but your landline and U-Verse internet service would remain up.

Most fiber runs underground. Most copper runs above ground. Microwave towers need line-of sight within a distance range to remain connected. Each has its own pros and cons, strengths and weaknesses of quality and reliability.

Re: So tell me again why landlines are better?

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:33:58 EDT

b10010011 posted : Government regulation require 99.9% up-time on POTS lines or the carrier faces fines.
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Re: So tell me again why landlines are better?

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:09:26 EDT

pandora posted :

said by morbo:

NSA cable switchover is causing some problems. Hold tight-- your phone, internet, and wireless communications will be 100% monitored by the NSA again very soon.

All find and dandy, but what about the Mossad, MSS and KGB? Shouldn't we let the various interested parties install their stuff at the same time? Israel, China and Russia should be spliced in to assure fewer interruptions after this NSA upgrade.
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Re: So tell me again why landlines are better?

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:52:10 EDT

Linklist posted :

said by ISurfTooMuch:

What I'm curious about is what could cause such a widespread outage.

From what I read in the AT&T forum on the outage, it appears to be a problem with the DHCP servers that hand out IP addresses. They may have been doing a software upgrade on those servers and the software update bombed out.
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Re: So tell me again why landlines are better?

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:44:16 EDT

MovieLover76 posted : Reliability is something that comes in time, newer technologies have growing pains. Remember when Verizon had LTE outages which are now a thing of the past.

And U-verse hasn't had a lot of widespread outages, this is the first I've heard of.

More reliability comes with time. POTS can have downtime too, but they are normally more localized.

Re: So tell me again why landlines are better?

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:42:32 EDT

IllIlIlllIll posted :

said by ISurfTooMuch:

OK, I know that U-verse voice is more of a VoIP service than a landline, but that's the direction that the telcos want to move in. So, when that happens, won't that negate any advantages of a landline in terms of reliability?

What I'm curious about is what could cause such a widespread outage. If it's a failure in a single piece of equipment, then it seems that AT&T's infrastructure isn't very robust. Not very comforting for something as important as telecommunications.

from reading the forum posts, it sounds like hardware/power failure at a major facility.
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Re: So tell me again why landlines are better?

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:40:44 EDT

morbo posted : NSA cable switchover is causing some problems. Hold tight-- your phone, internet, and wireless communications will be 100% monitored by the NSA again very soon.

So tell me again why landlines are better?

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:35:47 EDT

ISurfTooMuch posted : OK, I know that U-verse voice is more of a VoIP service than a landline, but that's the direction that the telcos want to move in. So, when that happens, won't that negate any advantages of a landline in terms of reliability?

What I'm curious about is what could cause such a widespread outage. If it's a failure in a single piece of equipment, then it seems that AT&T's infrastructure isn't very robust. Not very comforting for something as important as telecommunications.