attached to the interface box is a rechargeable battery which gives you
about 12 hours phone service to any WIRED phone in your house.
(cordless phones require house current)
Jim Nichols wrote:
> 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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