Distinctive tones ??

[NY Tel Guy]

I was all excited about the special tones until I realized its built in my cordless phones. I can select like 5 different tones. Does not matter what I chose from voipo because its always going to be what the phone is set to. Would be nice I guess if I used corded phones.

True, I alsways try to have a corded phone around the house in the event of a power failure but that only applies if you have a POTS line because if the power goes out with voip = no electricity=no TA=no dial tone which would be useless.

FYI: BestBuy has an A&T (at least in name) Trimline phone for 10.00 and is corded.

[burris]

True, I alsways try to have a corded phone around the house in the event of a power failure but that only applies if you have a POTS line because if the power goes out with voip = no electricity=no TA=no dial tone which would be useless.

FYI: BestBuy has an A&T (at least in name) Trimline phone for 10.00 and is corded.

One of the reasons I switched from Cable to DSL is that DSL has less likelihood of going down in one of our many South Florida storms.
At the same time, I have multiple UPS backups for my modem-ATA-cordless phones-router, hoping that when the power goes out, it won't be for longer than my backups stay up..
I haven't had a land line in almost 4 years.

[Xponder1]

I have my pc's , router ,dsl modem, ATA, and cordless phone base all plugged in back up power supplies. My pc's will shut off after 5 minutes with the software provided. With the pc's on battery wise my phone service should stay active for at least 45 minutes according to the software.

Now take in to account the fact the pc's will shut off if there is no power after 5 minutes and the amount of time probably doubles.

AT&T's hardware has batteries so it should run for awhile. If you do not have your pc on a backup power supply I strongly recommend them. They will make all your hardware last longer. They also kick in and regulate the power if it goes above a certain level aka surges or drops below a certain level.