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Posted on 4/18/20 at 11:37 am to FCP
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Source: Old telephone man.
How do I make a ring down in my house?
Posted on 4/18/20 at 11:40 am to Passing Wind
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Try Cat8.
Found the sucker.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:13 pm to SG_Geaux
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Waste of money
$750 installed really isn’t a huge deal when you’re building a home. Especially in the upper home range. Sorry I don’t see the point in not building what you will need in years to come for literally $150-200 more versus what’s needed 2 years ago
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You don't have 25GB internet at your house and you likely don't have a single piece of equipment that supports it.
It’s not about now...it’s for the future living here where it does require it.
This post was edited on 4/18/20 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:14 pm to kengel2
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Found the sucker.
See above post.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:14 pm to jbgleason
If the world ends you can use your landline to call no one.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:16 pm to jbgleason
I can’t remember when exactly we got rid of our landline phone. I’m thinking sometime around the 2010 range give or take a couple of years. 
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:19 pm to Passing Wind
We don't really use many wired connections at home. I've got one desktop connected to my router, everything else just connects to the wireless mesh network.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:24 pm to fallguy_1978
Ours is used for 3 XBox’s, 7 smart TV’s, security system SmartHome system and an office computer & printer. I had them put one next to each tv cable outlet all of these plug into the Ethernet ports. All TV’s stream, and we don’t have regular “cable”. The wiring runs to a central closet in the office where it’s hooked into a managed network switch. Same closet has a Nighthawk router for wireless. Everything can be running in the home on the network and nothing lags.
This post was edited on 4/18/20 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:24 pm to Passing Wind
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Try Cat8.
Are we really flexing on network cabling now?
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:25 pm to 3deadtrolls
No moron it was a recommendation to try using it.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:29 pm to FCP
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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.
This is all true, but the infrastructure for POTS is still in place. It's used mainly for analog fax, house alarms, and 911 service now.
Source: Dad worked for South Central Bell-BellSouth for 35 years
This post was edited on 4/18/20 at 12:30 pm
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:32 pm to jbgleason
Had a house built with none. However we had one put in running into my basement office. I deal with a couple Japanese companies and there are still somethings they will only send by fax.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:41 pm to Booyow
quote:WTF is a "ring down"?
How do I make a ring down in my house?
You can deliver dial tone anywhere by just using one twisted pair of copper wires. Punch down the tip and ring sides on both ends and you're good to go. Doesn't even have to be a twisted pair at short distance.
For most of our work, we'll use a regular Cat5 punchdown and just connect the white/blue pairs to the block on each end.
In the more info than you could possibly want category, you can actually use the same Cat5 (or Cat 6, 7, 8, etc.) to backfeed voip on one pair then use the orange and green pairs to backfeed 100Mbps data. Obviously, the 2 pair data backfeed has limited capacity in that it can't exceed 100Mbps, but when you're hooking up a blazing fast 3Mbps DSL connection, that's not really a huge limiting factor...
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:41 pm to jbgleason
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Do builders wire new residential homes for telephones still? Or is it by request only now?
It’s through your modem and internet line
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:46 pm to jbgleason
Yes. I still have one. Learned lesson after Katrina and all towers were knocked out.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:52 pm to musick
quote:For the most part, it is. But, we have started seeing some of the areas where they have laid fiber and have already started pulling out the old copper facilities. The crossbox on Springfield Road near Magnolia Beach (near Tiki Tubing) was severely damaged in the 2016 flood. We pulled in a temporary setup to get folks back online, but a few months ago they pulled out both the temp setup and all the old equipment.
the infrastructure for POTS is still in place
Now, if folks over there want "landline" service, they're getting a fiber optic connection and voip.
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:52 pm to Passing Wind
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No moron it was a recommendation to try using it.
Are you doing 25GB on your home network? At the cost of Cat8 vs Cat6 (roughly 10x), it’s hard to justify. Nothing you listed in your other post comes close to maxing Cat6, or even Cat5 really.
This post was edited on 4/18/20 at 12:55 pm
Posted on 4/18/20 at 12:56 pm to fallguy_1978
I have one in case I lose my cell phone or it taps out, and I need to immediately interview a coach or player.
As a freelancer, I miss out on income if I don’t get the story by the newspaper’s deadline.
But I don’t know how much of that work I’ll be doing going forward
As a freelancer, I miss out on income if I don’t get the story by the newspaper’s deadline.
But I don’t know how much of that work I’ll be doing going forward
Posted on 4/18/20 at 1:00 pm to DoctorO
quote:Facebook Hotline system
Are there any suggestions for what this prewired system can be used for in the present day?
The K Word is all the rage here, it must be important.
1993-era house here.
No phone service since we bought it 7+ years ago, we did use it for Internet until recently.
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