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Re: Our phone isn't working
- To: Flora <http://www.gmail.com/~flora>
- Subject: Re: Our phone isn't working
- From: Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:52:02 -0800
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> From: Flora <http://www.gmail.com/~flora>
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:45:12 -0500
>
> Hmmm.... We have DSL. We don't have phone, but we have internet.
If you have plain ol' telephone service (POTS), then this shouldn't
happen. The phone is hard-wired to the central office (CO), and then to
the rest of the telephone system.
> Is it
> that part of the line is working? Our new neighbors just moved in. I'm
> wondering if something happened when they connected the neighbor's line.
I would venture that it's unrelated, but who knows?
> On Dec 1, 2017 7:15 PM, "Robert" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert> wrote:
> > From: Flora <http://www.gmail.com/~flora>
> > Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 18:16:10 -0500
> >
> > That is very interesting, so it's not VOIP, but it's reliant on the
> > internet?
>
> No, it's just DSL. So, if the phone goes down, so does the internet.
>
> So, I lied: if the internet goes out, our phone may still work.