"Real" Telephones

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Some people I work with were bitching during the last power outage, they had switched to internet phones from comcast and they were out.

We just put the DSL modem and the wireless rounter here on 1400 VA UPS power. Our CO is far enough away that it's unlikely (but not impossible, of course) that power would be out both here and there as well. I don't know if the DSLAM there is on UPS. Of course the DSL line carries analog POTS also.

My amateur station is on that UPS as well...in an emergency I could place a 911 call via radio directly through the Montgomery County Emergency Operations Center, or alternatively any local call though our radio club's repeater.