This morning we had a land line installed. The first time in our house, and first time in 1 1/2 years. I feels weird to have such old technology in the house. We've been using cell phones for so long, it seems pointless to have a land line. What's funny is that I wasn't sure where the phone jacks were in the house. We had to look around to see if there was one installed in the office.
The cool thing about this land line is that it is through Comcast Cable. The phone actually comes over the cable and is not an IP phone. It's pretty cool and geeky. So at least we aren't using the POT's (Plain Old Telephone, an actual electrical engineering term) system anymore.
We got the land line for Kaz's job. Since she will eventually use the phone for her job, we had to get a land line. And ironically, a telemarketer just called. Since we have caller ID I didn't answer it. We don't even have the phone line 12 hours and stupid telemarketers are already calling. Hell, I don't even know our number yet!
Posted by George at April 9, 2007 7:49 PMGeez, why don't you guys just get an 8 track and a Sony tape Walkman.
Posted by: Reed at April 10, 2007 9:26 AMYeah I know. We should use a rotary dial phone so we can get pulse dialing!
Posted by: George at April 15, 2007 7:36 PMSince I am now in the telecom industry, I can tell you that Comcast is using VOiP, but they don't call it that. Anyway, it is certainly throttled for bandwidth and I am stuck with Vonage which is thottled back on Comcast networks...
Posted by: Rob at April 16, 2007 8:52 PMThe reason they don't call it IP is because they have their own VoIP network that is only local before going out to the phone system. Other system use the internet for the VoIP stuff where as Comcast uses only their intranet for the VoIP. Small difference, but it allows them to advertise that they do not use the internet for their phone service.
Posted by: George at April 17, 2007 7:05 AMI don't know if a rotary phone would work on an internet phone
Posted by: reed at April 17, 2007 8:36 AMPulse (rotary phone ) do work on the internet, at least on Vontage. I set my phone to pulse, dialed the cell and it worked. Maybe Comcast would not work, but that is a feature (or lack of the feature) on the VoIP device.
Posted by: Old man in the group at April 17, 2007 6:01 PMNow a question for you phone teckies. Does anyone know how to retrieve the information in a cell phone using a USB cable? I am able to get some information down to the PC, but am unable to translate it into something sensible. The phoen is a PN-215 (from Pantech/Verizon). I have both MobileMaster and QPST.
Posted by: Old man in the group at April 17, 2007 6:06 PMI use BitPIM to get my stuff off my phone. It grabs everything. It is compatible with a lot of phones. you may want to try it.
As for VOiP, I want to get some leftover gear from work so that I can put VOiP intercom/phones in my house (if I ever get one) so I can dial extension to the garage, basement, etc. Cool.
You should hook you computer up to vote for Sanjaya every week. That would be cool.
Posted by: Rob at April 17, 2007 9:42 PMDoes VOIP Kill bees the way cell phones do? I feel sorry for the bees.
Posted by: Reed at April 18, 2007 11:23 AMGive bees a chance! Try bee-cueticals, the product developed by Howard Stern's cousins. Much like Burt's Bees stuff.
Posted by: Rob at April 18, 2007 8:05 PM