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Slightly of topic Spectrum Cable
On Sat, 19 May 2018 11:27:43 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote: I do not have Spectrum cable nor do I plan to get it. However I do have a problem with Spectrum Cable. The house next door (Its a new House) recently got Spectrum cable. Rather than bury the line as they should have they laid it on the ground in the weeds on the lot line. It has been this way since Christmas when it was installed, Twice now I have gotten into this cable with the lawn mower when I am mowing in that area. Does anyone know of a way to report problem with their system to Spectrum IF you are not a subscriber. I contacted the electrical power company and they say the cable is not there's The alternative is to forget about it and if it gets cut, it gets cut. It is not to my house. Why not ask your next door neighbors to take care of it, and warn them of the danger if they don't? |
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Slightly of topic Spectrum Cable
"Ken Blake" wrote
| Ooo! Tell me how! That could be useful. | No one I know has a landline, including me. | | I do (if you consider VoIP a landline). | I have a regular landline. Most people I know have both. Some people I know can't get service at home. There are still a lot of rural areas that aren't covered, and no one wants to bother to do it. There's also the fact that landlines simply work better. It's ridiculous how often people call me from their cellphones and the call keeps cutting out. Then they get impatient with me: "I don't know. It always works..." As if to say it must be a problem with my landline! In every case, they can't admit that walking around with a radio-based phone just doesn't work very well. |
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Slightly of topic Spectrum Cable
In article , Paul in Houston TX
wrote: Finding the number of someone's cell phone is next to impossible. i didn't say cellphone, but regardless, finding a cellphone number is just as easy. Ooo! Tell me how! That could be useful. No one I know has a landline, including me. public data, and without a landline it's actually easier. one less number to find. |
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Slightly of topic Spectrum Cable
In article , Mayayana
wrote: I have a regular landline. Most people I know have both. Some people I know can't get service at home. There are still a lot of rural areas that aren't covered, and no one wants to bother to do it. the number of people who *don't* have a landline anymore is now higher than those who do, and that number continues to grow. here's two year old data: https://amp.businessinsider.com/imag...8b5136-1136-85 2.png There's also the fact that landlines simply work better. that's not a fact. sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. It's ridiculous how often people call me from their cellphones and the call keeps cutting out. Then they get impatient with me: "I don't know. It always works..." As if to say it must be a problem with my landline! don't dismiss all cellphones because some people call from a fringe area. In every case, they can't admit that walking around with a radio-based phone just doesn't work very well. they normally work very well, and in some cases (hd voice), better than a landline, but like everything, nothing is perfect. |
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Slightly of topic Spectrum Cable
nospam wrote:
In article , Mayayana wrote: I have a regular landline. Most people I know have both. Some people I know can't get service at home. There are still a lot of rural areas that aren't covered, and no one wants to bother to do it. the number of people who *don't* have a landline anymore is now higher than those who do, and that number continues to grow. here's two year old data: https://amp.businessinsider.com/imag...8b5136-1136-85 2.png There's also the fact that landlines simply work better. that's not a fact. sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. It's ridiculous how often people call me from their cellphones and the call keeps cutting out. Then they get impatient with me: "I don't know. It always works..." As if to say it must be a problem with my landline! don't dismiss all cellphones because some people call from a fringe area. In every case, they can't admit that walking around with a radio-based phone just doesn't work very well. they normally work very well, and in some cases (hd voice), better than a landline, but like everything, nothing is perfect. Landlines are useful for emergencies since emergency responders already know the locations easily. -- Quote of the Week: "The fact that we can't easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that we're like ants trying to discover humans. Ask yourself: Would ants ever recognize houses, cars, or fire hydrants as the work of advanced biology?" --Seth Shostak Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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Slightly of topic Spectrum Cable
In article , Ant
wrote: Landlines are useful for emergencies since emergency responders already know the locations easily. they also know the location of cellphones via e911. landlines don't always work: http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/22/tech...ss-sandy/index. html Last fall, Superstorm Sandy wiped out landline telephone service for thousands of people. Many of them are never getting those landlines back. post-sandy, a 'landline' is actually wireless: On Fire Island, N.Y., off the southern coast of Long Island, Verizon is replacing its copper landlines with a wireless telephone system called Voice Link. The new system consists of a small modem-sized device that plugs into an electrical outlet and a standard telephone jack in your wall at home. That device connects to Verizon's wireless cellular network, which brings phone service and a dial tone to the existing cord or cordless phones in the home. Customers can use it to make calls, and it and offers services like call waiting, caller ID and voice mail. |
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Slightly of topic Spectrum Cable
"Ant" wrote
| Landlines are useful for emergencies since emergency responders already | know the locations easily. | Yes. And for blackouts. Though our landline now goes through the cable wire. We supposedly have 8 hours battery backup, but that wouldn't be much help in a hurricane or blizzard that knocks things out for days or weeks. I'm afraid the dependability of true landline is becoming a thing of the past. It costs phone companies more money to support and they typically get paid less for it. In theory I could switch to a Verizon landline. The wire is still there. But Verizon is trying to back out of support, and if you call them all they want to talk about is their wildly overpriced FIOS. |
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Slightly of topic Spectrum Cable
On 05/20/2018 12:02 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Ant" wrote | Landlines are useful for emergencies since emergency responders already | know the locations easily. | Yes. And for blackouts. Though our landline now goes through the cable wire. We supposedly have 8 hours battery backup, but that wouldn't be much help in a hurricane or blizzard that knocks things out for days or weeks. I'm afraid the dependability of true landline is becoming a thing of the past. It costs phone companies more money to support and they typically get paid less for it. I have the same. That battery backup time doesn't matter after 4 hours, because that's how long the battery in the node lasts. When we had a long outage, it was a whole day before the cable company put a generator on the node. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ In Mexico hotel lobby: "The manager has personally passed all the water served here." |
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Slightly of topic Spectrum Cable
In article , Mayayana
wrote: | Landlines are useful for emergencies since emergency responders already | know the locations easily. Yes. And for blackouts. Though our landline now goes through the cable wire. We supposedly have 8 hours battery backup, but that wouldn't be much help in a hurricane or blizzard that knocks things out for days or weeks. in other words, cellphone. nothing is guaranteed to work 100% of the time. I'm afraid the dependability of true landline is becoming a thing of the past. It costs phone companies more money to support and they typically get paid less for it. it's also overloaded and can't support the internet speeds customers want. gone are the days when there was only one, perhaps two, phones per house, used only for voice calls and the occasional dial-up modem call. In theory I could switch to a Verizon landline. The wire is still there. But Verizon is trying to back out of support, and if you call them all they want to talk about is their wildly overpriced FIOS. it's cheap for new customers, then when the promo expires (assuming they don't have a retention deal), cancel and sign up again to get another new customer promo, which is probably cheaper and faster than what existed 1-2 years prior. |
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