That is the conundrum I faced, Jim. Unusually for UK, our power line is on
poles, and it runs for a couple of miles to the local distribution
sub-station. There is plenty of scope for trees to fall and take out the
power (thankfully, ice storms are not a threat), which then kills both my
net connection, and my office phone system (a VOIP system which depends on
the net connection).
I have a small petrol (gasoline) powered generator which is perfectly
capable of powering the router, the phone adaptors, a printer and a laptop,
so I keep working regardless. The extra woolly clothing can be souced
locally!
Cost about 100USD, most likely cheaper (or greater outpout at same price)
where you are!
--
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jim Nichols
Sent: 15 September 2008 17:09
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: e330 question
Jez,
Thanks for confirming what I suspected to be the case. The only down side
that I see is that, when winter ice storms hit and the electric power is
interrupted, with the AT&T lines, we still have phone service, powered by
the copper phone line. Using house power, there will be no phone service.
Behind my house there is a power line fuse that powers our block and several
others. When squirrels or limbs short the line and blow the fuse link, I
guess I will have to resort to my cell phone to report the outage.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jez Cunningham" <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 4:34 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: e330 question
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Jim Nichols
> <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I read today that some
> installations use a home interface box that picks up power from the house
> power system to power ringers, etc, so maybe my worries are for naught.
>
> Jim,
>
> For sure the fiber will be terminated in a powered box - it will have an
> RJ11 phone jack on it (and a load of other sockets) just like a cable
> modem,
> and your current phone should work fine.
>
> br
> jez
>
>
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