On Mar 31, 12:45*pm, hk wrote:
On 3/31/10 12:35 PM, wrote:





On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:39:39 -0400,
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Our cable provider is having some sort of trouble today, so I had to
find and hook up my silly old modem in order to send off a 44-page
manuscript.

Anyway, I called the cable co to report the outage and while I was
waiting for the gal on the line to get an answer to "why," she was
starting to try to sell me on VOIP. I started laughing and said, "If i
had VOIP, I wouldn't be able to make this call..."

She didn't get it.

I am not sure why anyone would want to lose the reliability of good
old POTS phone service. In all of our hurricanes we have lost cable
many times, power a few times but the phone always works. The mere
fact that Sprint buried everything when they did the fiber upgrade in
the late 80s probably accounts for most of it but phone systems are
also battery powered. I have not seen the DSL go down for any extended
time either. Cable data was always the first thing to go and the last
thing to come back in any kind of disturbance. I have Comcast TV
service on a hair trigger right now and the first time they screw me
up the cable will be laying in the right of way. The "all digital
conversion" we keep hearing about will do it for sure. If I need a box
for everything, I might as well have satellite for less money. I find
I am watching more internet TV though. I got a P4 *XP pro machine
several months ago for $45 from GearXS and it is connected to the big
screen.

We have the cable digital TV, but I don't see myself giving up telco
POTS for "cablephone."

I haven't the patience to wade through the satellite TV offers.

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You must be the laziest fat slob in the world.