Re: Advice on networking a IIGS?

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/27/2012 10:48 AM, David Schmidt wrote:
>> On 11/27/2012 10:14 AM, Egan Ford wrote:
>>> On 11/26/12 11:21 PM, Kevin wrote:
>>>> we don't even have land lines
>>> 
>>> I've still got one.  How else am I going to use my acoustic coupler or
>>> fax machine? :-)
>> 
>> Ditto.  It's the _only_ system in my house (or anywhere I've experienced,
>> really) with five nines of uptime.
> 
> Now that I've had a few years of cell phone ownership under my belt (I
> was a die-hard holdout), there's not a chance I'd leave myself without
> copper-wire service and at least one corded phone.
> 
> In terms of reliability, POTS is to cell service as an IBM Z-Series
> mainframe is to a store-bought PeeCee.

Interesting. I've never experienced cellphone unreliability distinct from
"bad locations", which my home isn't--therefore no reliability deficit
relative to land line. 

In fact, in some disaster situations, cell towers (and their intrinsic
redundancy) fare better than wires. 

I do have land lines, but one of them is a VOIP phone, and it *is* less
reliable than the POTS line. 

All my phones are wireless handsets, with UPS on the base stations, good
for several hours without power. 

I think that land lines are a generational thing. As age goes down, the
fraction of cellphone-only users goes up dramatically. 

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon