hottboiinnc
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Cleveland, OH
 ·Time Warner Cable
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Re: No surprises
When it happened one of my former employees called meabout 20 minutes after the spike and said "we just got our phone service back and we have a problem, one surge is fried black" i laughed and said okay no big deal as long as computers worked..and still talked on the cell phone...
office lost phone service during any thunder/lighting storm or like that for long periods of time due to the phone system was on a digital line from SBC. T1 didnt drop though LOL.
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south1178
Buckeye Stangs
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Cleveland, OH
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said by Jigsaw  :
said by Sly :
Take it with a grain of salt. My cell phone is a lot more problematic than my VoIP line. Some people freak out when they don't have phone service for a minute. I don't know of any phone service that is 100% reliable.
The Blackout last year in Cleveland Killed our power for almost a day.Yet land line Phones were still working 
Yea and My cell phone still worked as well...Verizon
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WhyADuck
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He's not talking about CO's, he's talking about remote terminals (well, actually he wasn't - a previous post was) - basically, the point at which a fiber optic feed from the central office is broken out into copper pairs to serve a small community or a neighborhood. These remote terminals are powered by commercial power and usually have backup batteries, but not generators (if they really need to they can hook up a portable generator, but they don't really have enough of those to go around in a major outage).
We have one of these in our neighborhood and a few years ago we had a prolonged power outage. The phones did stay up during the outage, but the next night the whole village lost phone service. Turned out that whatever caused the power outage (and I really don't remember at this point) not only tripped a circuit breaker inside the remote terminal, preventing the commercial power from being re-applied, but also damaged the charging circuit, so after a day or so the batteries were completely run down and everyone lost dial tone. So, because it was close to getting dark, the phone company guys drove a few miles to another remote terminal, swiped the charging circuity out of it, and installed it in the remote terminal with the dead batteries. They then left the whole mess for the daytime crew to clean up the next day. Anyway I'd say were were without service for around six to eight hours, and somehow we all survived.
Interestingly, there was one pay phone in the village (that I know of) that still worked, presumably because they had left that on one of the original copper pairs coming direct from the C.O. It got a lot of use that night as everyone was coming to call repair service - at one point when we had repair on the line, we were just handing off the phone from one person to the next, so that each in turn could report their specific outage (since we did not at that point know what the problem was). |
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hottboiinnc
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Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| reply to Jigsaw
Yes in Fremont, Ohio too. My cell phone from ATTWS lost signal for about 5 minutes but then was working again when the backup power was in use.
Good thing i had my cell too at the time for work when it happened..the blackout power spike that hit when power was resotred hit so hard it blew a surge protecteor off the floor and then burned it to hell!
Computer was fine though. LOL |
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xirian
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Beacon, NY
| reply to Jigsaw
said by Jigsaw :
said by Sly :
Take it with a grain of salt. My cell phone is a lot more problematic than my VoIP line. Some people freak out when they don't have phone service for a minute. I don't know of any phone service that is 100% reliable.
The Blackout last year in Cleveland Killed our power for almost a day.Yet land line Phones were still working
Too bad I got "All circuits are busy" when trying to use mine. Got through on my cell phone fine though, --
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Marilla
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| reply to Sly
said by Sly :
Woo hoo! I'm so impressed. Not. I don't give a crap. I never said that VoIP was more reliable. There are many landline systems across the US that rely on electrical power at the substation to operate.
You have stats on that?
Because last time I checked, most CO's were required to have backup generators. No such thing on any Internet/Cell equipment.
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Sly
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Johnson City, TN
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Woo hoo! I'm so impressed. Not. I don't give a crap. I never said that VoIP was more reliable. There are many landline systems across the US that rely on electrical power at the substation to operate. |
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Jigsaw
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Cleveland, OH
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said by Sly :
Take it with a grain of salt. My cell phone is a lot more problematic than my VoIP line. Some people freak out when they don't have phone service for a minute. I don't know of any phone service that is 100% reliable.
The Blackout last year in Cleveland Killed our power for almost a day.Yet land line Phones were still working
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