Marckus0513
Just Because
join:2003-01-11
Vernon, VT
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| My phone works....
My POTS line works great!! I have never had any problems with my phone ever. It always works when I pick it up, and guess what...when I dial 911 they know exactly where I am calling from.  (Yes I know that E911 is coming to the VOIP world)
VOIP IMO relies on too many independent factors to be super reliable. I'm sure that SR is trying to restore service but who knows if the problem is anything in their control??
POTS works for me because I don't make 5 bazillion minutes of long distance calls each month, though I call who I want when I want. My bill averages around $28/month including all the stupid taxes, and I have Caller ID and Voicemail and a few other little features that I never use.
After my rambling though, I hope you guys that do have SR get your phones back soon. This long outage seems a bit crazy if you ask me. |
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brooklynman4
join:2004-09-07
Brooklyn, NY | Could they have gone out of buisness leaving customers behind??? |
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brooklynman4
join:2004-09-07
Brooklyn, NY | Im joking |
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Oxygen
Times Square can't shine as bright
Premium
join:2001-12-04
Nesconset, NY | And funny you are... |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
Premium
join:2005-06-29
clubs: | reply to brooklynman4
They could be upgrading there servers. OR there fiber could have been cut... I have had vonage for a year now it was only down 10 mins. at the most while they did a upgrade to voice mail.. |
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Marckus0513
Just Because
join:2003-01-11
Vernon, VT
·Verizon Online DSL
| said by hayabusa3303  :They could be upgrading there servers. OR there fiber could have been cut... I have had vonage for a year now it was only down 10 mins. at the most while they did a upgrade to voice mail.. Quick question...Why would they have to take the whole system down so no one has phone service to upgrade a VM server?? |
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mykey2k
join:2001-11-19
Aurora, IL
| reply to Marckus0513
said by Marckus0513 :POTS works for me because I don't make 5 bazillion minutes of long distance calls each month, though I call who I want when I want. My bill averages around $28/month including all the stupid taxes, and I have Caller ID and Voicemail and a few other little features that I never use. Good to hear that you are only paying $28 for all your phone calls. If I was only paying $28 for land line, all inclusive, I'd still be on utility service lines. (Even though I have been "had" with Packet8's new fee, I'm still paying less, and to their credit, I've never had an outage when I used the phone.)
But, any phone call 8 miles from my Central Office is metered at 5 cents a minute. That's not exactly long distance. I got tired of $100+ phone bills from only intraLATA calling. It's not entirely SBC's fault they kept Ameritech's (and Illinois Bell's) outrageous phone fees and price structure.
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
Premium
join:2005-06-29
clubs: | reply to Marckus0513
What ever they did the vm runs better. Better than the crappie bellsouth pots that is here for sure... |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
Premium
join:2005-06-29
clubs: | reply to mykey2k
Thats the problem with the bells they are money hungry. |
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Marckus0513
Just Because
join:2003-01-11
Vernon, VT
·Verizon Online DSL
3 edits | reply to mykey2k
Hey, I hear ya! If my bill was $100+ per month I would be looking for other options as well. I must say that most of the LECs out there offer unlimited local and long distance with all the features you could possibly want for like $45-50 bucks per month (less the wonderful taxes mind you). So that is a far cry from $100 bucks a month.
Having said that, I have no problems with anyone that chooses VOIP for there phone service. Being that there are none of those pesky taxes on VOIP (yet!!), and the VOIP providers basically own and maintain a very tiny portion of the network that ultimately carries the calls, VOIP is cheaper for many many people.
My only point was that like it or not, in most cases POTS is far more reliable and of better quality than VOIP. There is no question that VOIP is getting better all the time. However, the very nature of VOIP makes it vulnerable to many points of failure and users of VOIP have to expect that there ARE going to be failures. I'm sure that SR and all the other VOIP providers would like for there never to be failures and when they happen, to correct them quickly. Unfortunately since the VOIP carriers have very little to do with the network as a whole sometimes it takes some time to figure out what the problem actually is.
Carry on all you VOIP users out there and lets hope the SR network gets back up soon...
Gotta go....My damb POTS phone is ringing!!
Chow...Marckus  |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
Premium
join:2005-06-29
clubs: | For bellsouth i would be paying 180 month here for two pots lines where vonage is only 56 a month for both and i cant get dsl becuase bellsouth is TOO slow here to deploy it here. |
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Marckus0513
Just Because
join:2003-01-11
Vernon, VT | Hey man, no need to explain why you use VOIP to me.
It's all cool....:D
Marckus |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
Premium
join:2005-06-29
clubs: | i know just making my point in this. everyone has there preference for sure.. :D |
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Marckus0513
Just Because
join:2003-01-11
Vernon, VT
·Verizon Online DSL
| said by hayabusa3303 :i know just making my point in this. everyone has there preference for sure.. :D For sure...:) |
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Aggie Dan
Stop... Reverse That.
Premium
join:2001-01-30
Frisco, TX
clubs:
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Try living in the DFW metroplex. We have to have a metro line and pay a little over $100/mo. every month for phone and DSL.
Granted, I can call all the way to the other side of Ft. Worth and it is still a local call. And I'm on the Northeast side of Dallas.
Though, I'll give up my POTS line when you pry it from my cold dead hands. But, then again, my father has worked for a phone company since before divestiture and my wife and I both work for competing companies (yes, a three competing telco household) and have since 2000.
And just so you know... There is no smoke filled room that we are all filed into on the first day of work brainwashing us so that we must screw our customers out of every dollar we can. No evil conspiracies here.
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Note : The statements made by myself are my own and not the opinions of my employer or of my coworkers. 15.81 GHz Crunching Power | The Ryan Foundation for MPS Children |
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Marckus0513
Just Because
join:2003-01-11
Vernon, VT
·Verizon Online DSL
1 edit | said by Aggie Dan :Try living in the DFW metroplex. We have to have a metro line and pay a little over $100/mo. every month for phone and DSL. Does that include unlimited calling?? If so, it doesn't sound that bad for both phone and DSL. If not it is highway robbery.
I pay around $110/month for cable television and a cable modem (can't get DSL)and I have no premium channels. I think that is pretty high but what ya gonna do?!?!
Marckus
BTW...I didn't know people lived in the DFW Metroplex |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
Premium
join:2005-06-29
clubs: | dsl here is $55 month where cable is $40 a month here and $45 for basic cable. i would have to agree with you it is alittle high.
Markckus sounds like you are in the same boat i am cant get dsl and forget about fiber here ..lol |
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kschachn
join:2004-01-16
Muskego, WI | reply to Marckus0513
POTS and DSL sure must vary a lot over geographic areas. Here in southeastern Wisconsin, you can get SBC DSL (1.5 Mb/sec) and unlimited LD/local for a total of $63 a month. |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
Premium
join:2005-06-29
clubs: | 55 a month is just for dsl not any phone service.. |
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ninjaturtle1
join:2003-10-21
Fremont, CA
| reply to mykey2k
Umm, you can get unlimited calling within the United States with SBC for about $40. ALL DISTANCE® SELECT
I have this and my phone calls don't cut into my bandwidth.
»www02.sbc.com/Products_Services/···,00.html |
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