The move to fibre is great in many ways, but I do think there is some value in the redundancy older, simpler technology provided.
Analogue radio is another, it may appear primitive today but it’s very robust. It’s been an essential form of information distribution around the world during emergencies such as natural disasters, when more complicated systems like mobile networks fall over.
I live in quite a rural area and we have power cuts semi regularly, and we also have no signal on any network. It used to be quite fun plugging in the backup corded home phone with its curly cable to phone the power company!
yea, it can be. sucking-up your own internet connection, that you’re also paying for, to watch ‘satellite’ tv. i bet she didn’t get a discount for that, either. cheaper for them though, satellites are expensive, bandwidth is cheap (for them, anyway… what they charge customers most likely doesn’t reflect that).
I believe a lot of analog phones now transfer to VoIP at the cabinet. Those cabinets don’t have a UPS in them. A friend of mine (naively) thought putting his ASDL modem on a UPS would keep his internet working during a power cut. His side worked, unfortunately the street box went dark, till the power came back up.
Even an analog phone will now fall over in a power cut.
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The move to fibre is great in many ways, but I do think there is some value in the redundancy older, simpler technology provided.
Analogue radio is another, it may appear primitive today but it’s very robust. It’s been an essential form of information distribution around the world during emergencies such as natural disasters, when more complicated systems like mobile networks fall over.
I live in quite a rural area and we have power cuts semi regularly, and we also have no signal on any network. It used to be quite fun plugging in the backup corded home phone with its curly cable to phone the power company!
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yea, it can be. sucking-up your own internet connection, that you’re also paying for, to watch ‘satellite’ tv. i bet she didn’t get a discount for that, either. cheaper for them though, satellites are expensive, bandwidth is cheap (for them, anyway… what they charge customers most likely doesn’t reflect that).
I believe a lot of analog phones now transfer to VoIP at the cabinet. Those cabinets don’t have a UPS in them. A friend of mine (naively) thought putting his ASDL modem on a UPS would keep his internet working during a power cut. His side worked, unfortunately the street box went dark, till the power came back up.
Even an analog phone will now fall over in a power cut.