Steven Buehler wrote:
>> Remember, when your computer is off, or there is a power failure, your
>>telephone system will be down.
>> I rode out two hurricanes with no electricity, but my telephones (both
>>lines)
>>never flicked.
>>
>>
>
>
>
During the First hurricane, my phone went down several hours before I
lost power and
stayed down a day after my power came back up.
There is a green box about a mile from me that a lot of phone lines go
into and get
multiplexed into one. It has it's own power meter. When it loses power a lot
of phones go down. It does have back up batteries, but they only last a
few hours.
Richard Smoot
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages
posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 20:28:43 EDT