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Do they still wire houses for telephones? Do you have a residential land line?
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:30 am
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:30 am
Do builders wire new residential homes for telephones still? Or is it by request only now?
Occurred to me as I was helping move furniture in a friends condo and saw the unused wall sockets.
Bonus question: Who still has a home land line phone? I got rid of mine about five years ago after I went three months straight with only telemarketers calling it.
Occurred to me as I was helping move furniture in a friends condo and saw the unused wall sockets.
Bonus question: Who still has a home land line phone? I got rid of mine about five years ago after I went three months straight with only telemarketers calling it.
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Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:31 am to jbgleason
I miss telemarketers TBH.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:32 am to jbgleason
House was built in 2018 - no phone hookup
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:35 am to jbgleason
quote:
Do builders wire new residential homes for telephones still? Or is it by request only now?
Spinoff: My 25 yr old house is wired for landline which I no longer use. Are there any suggestions for what this prewired system can be used for in the present day?
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:36 am to jbgleason
I think it’s all fiber now 
depending on what area you’re in I don’t know how much newer residential properties are wired from a regional AT&T box but we have a LL through cox. Hardly costs anything.
depending on what area you’re in I don’t know how much newer residential properties are wired from a regional AT&T box but we have a LL through cox. Hardly costs anything. 
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:37 am to jbgleason
Most new homes are wired with cat5 cabling which can be used to deliver either phone service or data. DSLD and Horton both do this, but DSLD does it better.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:39 am to jbgleason
We built last year. Wired Cat 6 all over, yet my wife insisted we have one phone hook up in our master. I don’t see it ever being used but yea, we have one 
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:39 am to jbgleason
Don't know.
Yes. I remember Katrina.
Yes. I remember Katrina.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:40 am to jbgleason
Mine is wired for it and I have service. I have not had a phone plugged into it in about 15 years.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:44 am to jbgleason
Yes. We have. Backup plan.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:44 am to jbgleason
This board amazes me. A legit question (there are plenty of dumb ones asked on here) and people have responded with uncharacteristically legit answers (this being the OT I expected some smart arse BS) and yet I get two downvotes right off the bat.
Why would someone open a thread with a title that clearly indicates the subject just to downvote it? Or why would someone downvote and then give an honest answer.? Upvote/downvote system shouldn’t be anonymous.
Why would someone open a thread with a title that clearly indicates the subject just to downvote it? Or why would someone downvote and then give an honest answer.? Upvote/downvote system shouldn’t be anonymous.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:46 am to jbgleason
We haven't had one in 12-13 years. We have an older home that was built in the 70s and damn near every room is wired for a phone. Even my back patio and garage.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:47 am to FCP
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cat5
Try Cat8. It’s what I used in our home 2 years ago when we built. It’s solely used for inside the home wired internet network. No home phone at all.
This post was edited on 4/18/20 at 11:11 am
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:47 am to jbgleason
Issue is this: POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) is pretty much a thing of the past—at least on the consumer side. Just about every home with a “landline” is actually using high speed internet to deliver Voice Over IP (VOIP). So, the phone service dies when hsia goes down. But, more generally, the dial tone is starting at the modem, not down the road from a telco Central Office. Houses are wired for data which can be used to deliver phone service, but they mostly are not.
Source: Old telephone man.
Source: Old telephone man.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:52 am to jbgleason
We watched a movie made in the 90's not too long ago with our kids. There was a phone on the wall and it rang. The person picked up and started to converse. My kids said "What kind of phone is that?" They had no clue what in the hell a "home phone" was.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:55 am to jbgleason
Is there any advantage at all of having a landline also?
Posted on 4/18/20 at 11:01 am to jbgleason
I build apartments and we run cat6 to “phone locations”. Kind of a waste now days the way phone service works but the thought is it’s best to have it.
We also wire security too when most providers have wireless options.
We also wire security too when most providers have wireless options.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 11:16 am to DoctorO
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Spinoff: My 25 yr old house is wired for landline which I no longer use. Are there any suggestions for what this prewired system can be used for in the present day?
Central Dildo Charging.
This post was edited on 4/18/20 at 11:18 am
Posted on 4/18/20 at 11:21 am to Sal Minio
The advantage to having a land line is:
We have a line we can use when the grids are down, when the satellite can't get through heavy clouds and when the electric grid that services our house crashes (Trees on lines, blown transformer, etc.)
We still use our land line.
We have a line we can use when the grids are down, when the satellite can't get through heavy clouds and when the electric grid that services our house crashes (Trees on lines, blown transformer, etc.)
We still use our land line.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 11:23 am to Passing Wind
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Try Cat8.
God damn what a waste of money.
You don't have 25GB internet at your house and you likely don't have a single piece of equipment that supports it.
This post was edited on 4/18/20 at 11:27 am
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