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I too disconnected the old line from the terminal box on the house. It was inducing an AC hum into the phone line. And I plugged the modem into one of the jacks in the house which connected all the house phones to the VoIP system. The AT&T installer at the time told me that wouldn't work! He had no idea why I had a hum on the line either. After he left I fixed it myself by disconnecting the old drop line from the pole to the house, wound up the wire and tossed over the fence. They have let the old wire system deteriorate like someone else mentioned with plastic bags over the terminal boxes etc. |
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Edit: now that I think about it, I should look into getting them a cell phone booster for their house. I want to say they have either AT&T or Verizon and have "OK" coverage, often when I visit I have to go outside to get a signal (I have T-Mobile). I know that cellular internet is starting to become a thing - when I got my last new phone the rep mentioned it - maybe it would be cheaper/faster than HughesNet for them, if they had a roof antenna. Last edited by n8nagel; 05-11-2023 at 08:21 AM. |
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During covid, one of the things The White House noticed was people in rural areas had horrible internet capabilities when they realized many kids were unable to go to school on their computers at home... not enough bandwidth or a large enough data plan for all that video streaming back and forth with the rest of the class. I remember them talking about it on the news one week. The White House said they were going to give the internet companies subsidies to put real internet in these areas. Well son-of-a-gun... they actually did it! My parents' neighborhood was one of the first in our area to get it. Got them hooked up 2 months ago. Now they have fast internet, all kinds of tv stations for a lot less money, the house is now tricked out with all kinds of Alexa devices, and no more cel phone issues. And those hot-spots are now all in the garbage. Speaking to a internet rep in Walmart one day... he showed me on a map where my neighborhood will be getting the same thing in the next year! That means I can stop relying on hot-spots as well! Now that they have all these capabilities in their home, I will likely look into hooking them a house phone up via the internet. There has been a time or two in which I was there, but since no one was home, there was no phone for me to use.
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I have a collection of several dozen vintage phones, mostly by Western Electric. Said collection is partially cataloged on this page, though I haven't updated it in years. We had FiOS installed here about 12 years ago. They disconnected our copper pair, though I think the old cable is still within the old network interface in our basement. Fortunately, the ONT (Optical Network Terminal) they installed does support pulse dialing, though it is very sensitive about the rate of pulses, so if the dial is too slow (or too fast?), it doesn't acknowledge a digit being dialed. This has resulted in me taking a number of my vintage phones out of service, though I've been able to lubricate the dials in some of them to get them pulsing normally. Anyway, here are some pics of a few of the phones not found on my above list page, plus an alternate shot of one which is:
Western Electric three slot payphone, actually a 'franken-phone' put together by the fictitious "Long Island Telephone Co.": A Western Electric 151AL dial candlestick next to an Automatic Electric 40 "Monophone", both from the '30s or so: A Western Electric 5302 (old-style 302 set with a 500-like housing fitted around its innards) next to a Northern Electric 500F party line set, both from the '50s: Three European touchtone phones from the '70s: A Western Electric 354 wall phone from the early '50s: A Western Electric "Americana" replica wood wall phone from their early '80s "Design Line":
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That is a very nice collection of pioneer era phones, too bad the 600 ohm POTS loop has all but disappeared. I used to do a lot with the dedicated lines be it dry pairs or MUX'd during my 2-way radio days. Old systems relied on 20ma DC loops that often spanned 20+ wire miles and for voice they sounded great. More modern stuff was tone controlled running -16 dbm for things like SpectraTAC receivers voters and base stations, if you knew what to listen for you could tell if it was a dry pair just by the audio quality. Now it's all digital and sounds like vocoder crap.
Growing up our home telephone number prefix was PArkway-4 which was the name of the office, we still had a live operator through the mid-70s. Where I'm at now I can't get a copper pair to save my life. We have Century Link and it's all overpriced fiber, the alternative is MIDCO and they're just as pricey. Yeah progress is wonderful but I do miss the sound of my punchdown tool on a virgin 66-block. |
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Nice one that bakelite phone.
In Romania, V.o.I.P. only allows tone mode, so you need an adaptor for pulse mode. |
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