Someone told me that FIOS doesn t work without AC.
Is that so? For intenet, phone, *and* TV? (I guess the TV and intenet don't matter, since they won't work either without AC, but the phone would..)
I know most people use a cell phone when their home phone doesn't work, but I like having the home phone too.
You need a receiver, don't you ! Is light going to power something ?
My comcast cable box modem, phone, runs on ac and battery backup for some length of time.
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Info be FIOS battery here
I spoke to someone from Verizon this morning who said that their plan is to= start removing copper and transition everyone over to fiber. Thus ensuring= that in the event of a disaster nobody has phone service after a few hours= . I asked about a bigger battery and was told that the charger they use isn= 't powerful enough for it.
They call this progress.
By the way, when they install fios they take away the copper wire so you ca= n never go back to it.
I don't understand either half of this.
Looks like Verizon does too. I will have to tell my friend.
Wow. Thanks a lot, Retired. I don't think she knows about this, and I don't think Verizon put a good battery in the thing when they installed it, only a short while ago. She says during the power failure, calls went straight to voicemail without ringing the phone even when she was home, and I noticed that myself when I called her once. Of course it doesn't say that the phone will ring, only that one will have power for voice service. When she called me back, I don't know if it was on the house FIOS phone or her cell phone. Since she knew I had called, her caller-ID on the FIOS phone must have worked, but if that works shouldn't the bell which uses so little current on a phone these days work too?
Maybe they just didn't connect the battery. "The Verizon supplied battery is designed specifically for use with the Verizon FiOS Network. Use of a battery other than a 12-Volt 7.2 Ah SLA Sealed Lead Acid battery is not recommended"
Isn't a 12-volt 7.2Ah SLA battery a standard battery, not one designed specifically for use with the Fios network?
start removing copper and transition everyone over to fiber. Thus ensuring that in the event of a disaster nobody has phone service after a few hours. I asked about a [bigger backup battery for the FIOS phone] and was told that the charger they use isn't powerful enough for it.
How can the charger not be powerful enough. It has weeks or months to charge the battery, however long it is between power failures.
I had a 2nd-hand UPS and the battery wore out, and I replaced it with a bigger one and it worked fine. I just broke out the plastic ribs that held the smaller one in place. Of course they didnt' specifically say a bigger battery wouldn't work, but how would the guy you talked to know? He only "knows" what they told him.
never go back to it.
I called about something and she started pushing me, over and over, to get FIOS. I said I couldn't afford it but she said it was cheaper. I'm still on an introductory rate for DSL and FIOS would be more, not less.
You can charge a battery from the land phone lines. Illegally in the UK. I expect it is illegal in America too.
Well, yeah, the modem has to be powered by SOMETHING (it's not like a tin can on a string).
While you can install a UPS ahead of your modem, there are power requirements for the signal up the line.
After a recent outage, a Comcast technician told me someone ripped open one of their street-level boxes in the next block - not a small job - to steal the two auto batteries it contained!
You know, that sounds like a very bad decision.
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They call this progress.
By the way, when they install fios they take away the copper wire so you can never go back to it.
start removing copper and transition everyone over to fiber. Thus ensuring that in the event of a disaster nobody has phone service after a few hours. I asked about a bigger battery and was told that the charger they use isn't powerful enough for it.
never go back to it.
Verizon put a fios line to my house to replace the copper wire. It connects back to the land line box. There is a battery back up in the fios line in the house. We had been having a lot of copper wire problems and Verizon did this to solve the problem. We do not have internet or TV with them.
I also have Comcast and got the triple play (internet, TV and phone) as the cheapest package when I up graded to HD sets and DVR. The modem where phone is connected has battery backup but the internet is not backed up, only the Comcast phone.
I can see that in the summer, but it is cool enough that we don't run the Air Conditioner now.
The AC in my car will kick on if it is sitting in the sun though.
From what I read, some FIOS are AC/DC. Kinky!
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I can see that in the summer, but it is cool enough that we don't run the Air Conditioner now.
The AC in my car will kick on if it is sitting in the sun though.
start removing copper and transition everyone over to fiber. Thus ensuring that in the event of a disaster nobody has phone service after a few hours. I asked about a bigger battery and was told that the charger they use isn't powerful enough for it.
never go back to it.
Not true, and I'm speaking from my personal experience and current situation with VZ. I had FIOS TV/Internet installed last winter and did so by having VZ promise in writing that they would allow me to retain my POTS circuit with them. They agreed. I'm spending about $5/mo more than if I had gone with their "Triple Play" option but have the security of a phone circuit that has never failed in almost 26 years despite at least a dozen power outages that exceed the FIOS backup battery duration. They let you retain your POTS by creating a second account for your address. Your FIOS account is then linked to your address rather than your phone number.
It does for a short time because it has a small capacity battery.
No home phone here for over 5 years. Somewhere around 60% of the population use only cell phones.
There was an interesting problem with comcast. The large area near here fortunately only had some trees down but extensive power failures (and of course the cable is down because there is no power for the various system pieces). So if you had a generator and thought you were going to watch all of stuff you recorded on your comcast DVR you weren't allowed to do it because unless the cable box can talk to the mother ship you can't use it for anything except maybe to prop a door open.
My parents have electricity but their cable/phone/internet is out and they = can still watch their (Optimum) DVR.
I don't know why you can't hook up a giant battery to the fios system and m= aybe your own charger and disconnect their charger but their tech told me s= pecifically that a bigger battery wouldn't work with their little charging = system. I suppose you could keep a car or marine battery separately charged= and just hook it up when you need to.
Also, I was told that when the power goes out it shuts off TV and internet = to make the battery last longer for the more-important phone service (or ma= ybe TV/internet use so much more power they'd drain the battery really fast= ).
And a lot of people forget that their cordless phones won't work without AC= because the base unit needs it (although some systems allow for batteries = in the base unit too).
My cable phone box has a battery too. It'll work as long as the cable system does. During a recent storm, that was 4 hours after power failure. It was another 24 hours before they put in a generator to make it work.
They said mine would last 24 hours. It didn't last a few minutes. I replaced the battery. It still didn't.
start removing copper and transition everyone over to fiber. Thus ensuring that in the event of a disaster nobody has phone service after a few hours. I asked about a bigger battery and was told that the charger they use isn't powerful enough for it.
never go back to it.
I guess you mean they disconnect it and refuse to reconnect.
They're not going to pay someone to dig up your yard for ten cents worth of 22-gauge wire.
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