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Re: Advice on networking a IIGS?

I'm in my 40's and i haven't had a land line in since I could get broadband.   While I can get one cheaper then other people (poor person discount), no point.  I barely use my cellphone as is.  I tend to communicate with people via email, text (via email since i have my google voice send text to my email, since they cost on my cell phone) and when I have to make calls, I tend to use the free google voice chat thingy they have going.

Half the time I tend to forget to bring my cell phone with me when i go out.  But back in the days of dial-up internet a land line was a must.  =)




On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:21:22 PM UTC-8, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 11/27/2012 10:48 AM, David Schmidt wrote:
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> >> On 11/27/2012 10:14 AM, Egan Ford wrote:
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> >>> On 11/26/12 11:21 PM, Kevin wrote:
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> >>>> we don't even have land lines
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> >>> 
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> >>> I've still got one.  How else am I going to use my acoustic coupler or
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> >>> fax machine? :-)
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> >> 
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> >> Ditto.  It's the _only_ system in my house (or anywhere I've experienced,
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> >> really) with five nines of uptime.
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> > 
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> > Now that I've had a few years of cell phone ownership under my belt (I
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> > was a die-hard holdout), there's not a chance I'd leave myself without
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> > copper-wire service and at least one corded phone.
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> > 
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> > In terms of reliability, POTS is to cell service as an IBM Z-Series
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> > mainframe is to a store-bought PeeCee.
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> 
> 
> Interesting. I've never experienced cellphone unreliability distinct from
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> "bad locations", which my home isn't--therefore no reliability deficit
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> relative to land line. 
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> 
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> In fact, in some disaster situations, cell towers (and their intrinsic
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> redundancy) fare better than wires. 
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> 
> 
> I do have land lines, but one of them is a VOIP phone, and it *is* less
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> reliable than the POTS line. 
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> All my phones are wireless handsets, with UPS on the base stations, good
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> for several hours without power. 
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> 
> I think that land lines are a generational thing. As age goes down, the
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> fraction of cellphone-only users goes up dramatically. 
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> 
> 
> -michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon