Subj : some business hardware re To : August Abolins From : Barry Martin Date : Sun Nov 10 2024 07:05:00 Subject: some business hardware requires a landline Hi August! > What's 'funny' -- and I don't know how accurate it is now -- but some > consumer and probably business hardware requires a landline. Used to be > some alarms (burgular, fire, that type) required a landline to work. AA> I would think that the digital ATA boxes have come along way AA> now and an support the landline-specific devices over DSL or AA> fiber, no? To my thinking yes. Here we have VoIP telephone service: a small box outputs to my computer network, some sort of output for TV (not subscribed so don't use) and for some reason has two telepone ports. Basically as far as my telephones are concerned being plugged into the VoIP is the same as the copper lines (except the sound is better). So sort of getting around to the probably answer, I would think anything originally designed for POTS (plain old telephone service) service would work on fiber. For DSL the phones had to have a filter. Now for cell phone-only service, that has a bunch of loosely put- together factoids in my mind. Know there is a device to connect house phones to the cell phone docked in a device -- sort of a reverse cordless phone. Problem is when the cell phone is taken off the telephones don't work because the bridge device (the cell phone) is missing. So because of that possibility (no landline-type telephone service) I would presume there are devices which make use of cellular service to work. I'm thinking of the help-me-I've-fallen type of devices which are now available with a roaming option: can shuffle to the park or drive peering over the dash and the emergency pendant can connect to some sort of mobile service. ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® .... I'm against picketing But I don 't know how to show it. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com (454:1/1) .