Louie
Ours has a battery backup that has worked fine when the power was out, provided the cable service doesn’t go out too. You just need to use a corded phone either plugged into the modem, or since I backfed the voice signal into our jacks, just have a corded phone plugged into one of the jacks.
Now, I don’t know exactly how long the battery will last, but we’ve never had a power outage that lasted longer than 8 hrs, and we were able to receive calls and dial out with no problem. I suppose you could keep an extra battery on hand that was charged, if you anticipate a several day outage. But then, you could always receive the calls on the VOIP number, then call them back on your cell, provided you still had a way to keep that charged.
No matter what, yes, copper land lines do provide better assurance of phone service during a long power outage. But I also agree with Ralph, the phone companies are going to do away with copper landlines where ever they are allowed to to do so. They just don’t want to maintain them anymore. It’s sad that a system that has worked so well for well over a 100 years is being ditched. But at least we didn’t suffer for the change to VOIP.
AT&T was constantly jacking us around, increasing the bill almost every 6 mo.or less. Then I would be calling customer service to try and cut another deal with them, a total PITA. And the DSL internet was terrible, and unreliable. I’ve never regretted the switch to VOIP. And I don’t really like change, but this was a positive change.
Eddie
[this post was last edited: 12/4/2018-18:09]
Ours has a battery backup that has worked fine when the power was out, provided the cable service doesn’t go out too. You just need to use a corded phone either plugged into the modem, or since I backfed the voice signal into our jacks, just have a corded phone plugged into one of the jacks.
Now, I don’t know exactly how long the battery will last, but we’ve never had a power outage that lasted longer than 8 hrs, and we were able to receive calls and dial out with no problem. I suppose you could keep an extra battery on hand that was charged, if you anticipate a several day outage. But then, you could always receive the calls on the VOIP number, then call them back on your cell, provided you still had a way to keep that charged.
No matter what, yes, copper land lines do provide better assurance of phone service during a long power outage. But I also agree with Ralph, the phone companies are going to do away with copper landlines where ever they are allowed to to do so. They just don’t want to maintain them anymore. It’s sad that a system that has worked so well for well over a 100 years is being ditched. But at least we didn’t suffer for the change to VOIP.
AT&T was constantly jacking us around, increasing the bill almost every 6 mo.or less. Then I would be calling customer service to try and cut another deal with them, a total PITA. And the DSL internet was terrible, and unreliable. I’ve never regretted the switch to VOIP. And I don’t really like change, but this was a positive change.
Eddie
[this post was last edited: 12/4/2018-18:09]
