POTS line quality help
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From: Robert Baer on 20 Apr 2010 19:29 Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was only analog modems and nice paper manuals came with them. Some of those manuals, in the back discussed that for best use, one should order a specific quality of phone line and disclosed the BELLCO designation to use when ordering the line. As i remember it, that designation was something simple like (making this up) Z9. I think that the TekCom modem manual at that time was one that gave that info. Question: What is that designation? Thanks.
From: Kevin McMurtrie on 22 Apr 2010 11:30 In article <k-adncl-GNqppFPWnZ2dnUVZ_ridnZ2d(a)posted.localnet>, Robert Baer <robertbaer(a)localnet.com> wrote: > Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was only analog modems and > nice paper manuals came with them. > Some of those manuals, in the back discussed that for best use, one > should order a specific quality of phone line and disclosed the BELLCO > designation to use when ordering the line. > As i remember it, that designation was something simple like (making > this up) Z9. > I think that the TekCom modem manual at that time was one that gave > that info. > Question: What is that designation? > Thanks. Cat 3 is commonly used for high quality telephone wiring. POTS is expected to go the way of the dinosaur within the next decade. I'm ditching it as soon as my Internet gets a bit faster. New homes are wired with Cat 6 so the phone jacks may carry gigabit ethernet later. -- I won't see Google Groups replies because I must filter them as spam
From: Joel Koltner on 22 Apr 2010 12:34 "Kevin McMurtrie" <mcmurtrie(a)pixelmemory.us> wrote in message news:4bd06b9a$0$22159$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net... > POTS is expected to go the way of the dinosaur within the next decade. By 2019? I'd put money that -- unless there's a huge government program similar to the REA -- there are many people in rural areas who are still going to have POTS *well* past 2019. Maybe by 2029 though... That being said... at the Oregon Caves national monument not far from me here, some vandals cut their POTS lines (that had been in place for decades) last year. They found it more cost effective to set up a high-speed digital microwave link rather than repairing the POTS line damage -- which gives them more phone lines than they had before, as well as fast Internet access. (Interestingly, they have a really cool lodge pole-style resort there that purposely doesn't have TVs in the guest rooms... yet they had a little booth available for a phone-line hookup for dial-up Internet access back around the turn of the century; I used in back in 2002. Kinda odd that you could check your e-mail but not watch the nightly news on TV!) ---Joel
From: krw on 22 Apr 2010 19:02 On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:30:34 -0700, Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie(a)pixelmemory.us> wrote: >In article <k-adncl-GNqppFPWnZ2dnUVZ_ridnZ2d(a)posted.localnet>, > Robert Baer <robertbaer(a)localnet.com> wrote: > >> Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was only analog modems and >> nice paper manuals came with them. >> Some of those manuals, in the back discussed that for best use, one >> should order a specific quality of phone line and disclosed the BELLCO >> designation to use when ordering the line. >> As i remember it, that designation was something simple like (making >> this up) Z9. >> I think that the TekCom modem manual at that time was one that gave >> that info. >> Question: What is that designation? >> Thanks. > >Cat 3 is commonly used for high quality telephone wiring. > >POTS is expected to go the way of the dinosaur within the next decade. >I'm ditching it as soon as my Internet gets a bit faster. New homes are >wired with Cat 6 so the phone jacks may carry gigabit ethernet later. You're late. I haven't used POTS for six years. I do wish my Internet connection was from this century, however.
From: Paul Keinanen on 23 Apr 2010 00:39
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:34:53 -0700, "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >"Kevin McMurtrie" <mcmurtrie(a)pixelmemory.us> wrote in message >news:4bd06b9a$0$22159$742ec2ed(a)news.sonic.net... >> POTS is expected to go the way of the dinosaur within the next decade. > >By 2019? I'd put money that -- unless there's a huge government program >similar to the REA -- there are many people in rural areas who are still going >to have POTS *well* past 2019. > >Maybe by 2029 though... The cost of maintaining rural overhead lines is quite high. In Finland, some operators have been actively dismounting rural overhead wires. Unfortunately this also makes it impossible to get ADSL broadband connections and the population in those rural areas have to live with not so good wireless Internet connections. |