The box where your FIOS back up battery lives has lights and alarms on
it. If you open it up it has a battery similar to those used in a
UPS. I was told to expect to replace it on my dime in three or four
years.
They left the POTS lines connected in the phone box on the house but
who knows
The question was does a POTS line still supply power? The answer is
unequivocally yes. If you have a POTS line to your house and your power
goes down -- pretty common occurrence here in Western Loudoun lately -- the
power on the POTS line will stay up and you can plug your 1970s-vintage
Princess
I have two Igo power supply chargers.
I go makes both laptop power supplies and car charges but the unique
thing is you can replace the tips for different appliances.
I have one in my car with a dual lead so I can charge two things at
once. All I have to have is the tips for each device.
Is it the list acting funky or my email? I sent this message days ago and
now it is freshly in my mail box once again? Is anybody else having
flashbacks?
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Sent:3/15/2008 8:53 PM
Received:3/18/2008 9:05 AM
From:Tom Piwowar,
Can you notify the power company of an outage with a cell phone text message?
Fred Holmes
At 10:39 PM 3/17/2008, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
What I read (and I think it was on this list) is that they disable the POTS
service from the box or father back.
It is their way of cutting back on
But what happens when the electrical grid goes down? In the olden days when
copper came all the way from the central office, the central office had huge
storage batteries that would last for 48 hours or more and a diesel generator
that would run as long as fueled. If now many POTS phones are
I was just reading an article yesterday where insurance companies are
no longer going to pay for hospital goofs. Can you imagine
that Hospitals expected your and my insurance to cover them for
their mistakes
Hmmm... Maybe hospitals should pick and choose which patients they see so
Shouldn't all insurance reimbursements be below average?
Fred Holmes
At 10:42 AM 3/18/2008, Brian Jones wrote:
By the way, Medicare is the leader when it comes to decreasing insurance
reimbursement. When they commissioned the Harvard Study, all the insurance
companies dropped their
That's almost as slow as snail-mail. The message in question was not in
my inbox this morning. I think something similar happened to one of your
messages last week (on investment advice), unless you re-sent the
original. I got it once. then got it again a few days later. I just
assumed that
You text a message to your cousin in NYC requesting him to call and
notify the power company for you.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Fred Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you notify the power company of an outage with a cell phone text message?
Fred Holmes
At 10:39 PM 3/17/2008,
Vicky you prove my point.
I thought she proved mine. She is in effect in a straightjacket and this
prevents her getting DSL. Given complete freedon she would get DSL.
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I never knock the competition. All I can say is that in Verizon
territory, you pay for 3 mbps, you get 3 mbps, or a reasonable
facsimile.
That has been my experience with Verizon DSL.
I'm puzzled why Mike is so anti science. Knowing how something really
works means that you can figure out how
Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
What I read (and I think it was on this list) is that they disable the POTS
service from the box or father back.
It is their way of cutting back on service for that type of line etc.
Keep a cell phone handy. The FCC is requiring (and the
Any good sources for getting a sense of the DC job market. I have
spent five years as the stay at home parent and really need
to move back into support myself. Experience is as a software
developer, mainly C++, database apps, Winitel architectures, 15 years
used to have a clearance etc.
Any
which dtv converter box is best?
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Tell him not to insulate the battery from the floor. For some reason
car batteries discharge if you put a car battery directly on concrete.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My father in law has a car battery backup for his Sump pump due to a
I got my coupons last week but I haven't had a chance to run out and
use them. I needed three however and I picked up the Magnavox at
WalMart. It seems to work OK with an indoor antenna. I get all the
major networks. It is spotty on 26 WETA and sometimes it drops it.
I have an outdoor antenna
Best Buy also carries them - 1 brand, 1 model, listing for $59.99. Coupons
should be available online.
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I have a cell phone. I even use it at home. I could also use a Kaito emergency
radio that charges cell phones using solar or wind-up. I also have a land line
that doesn't go down when our power does. That's one of the major reasons I
wouldn't consider FIOS unless the telco forced it by
what coupons are these?
from where?
John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
I got my coupons last week but I haven't had a chance to run out and
use them. I needed three however and I picked up the Magnavox at
WalMart. It seems to work OK with an indoor antenna. I get all the
major networks. It is spotty
I learned a long time ago not to give my father-in-law advice if it
is not asked for.
Long stories, not worth retelling.
Stewart
At 06:55 PM 3/18/2008, you wrote:
Tell him not to insulate the battery from the floor. For some reason
car batteries discharge if you put a car battery directly
On Mar 18, 2008, at 2:32 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
No electricity = no phone service after only a few hours of
blackout. No power = maybe no cellular service either. FCC
attempted to take over the shortwave bands so nobody would have
emergency communication [they failed, thank goodness].
The
On Mar 18, 2008, at 5:35 PM, rlsimon wrote:
which dtv converter box is best?
I recently obtained my two coupons. I used one of them to buy the
Zenith DTT-900 unit which has been favorably reviewed thus far,
particularly in regard to its RF front end. I use it in conjunction
with an
Magnavox are the ones at Walmart.
Stewart
At 08:47 PM 3/18/2008, you wrote:
On Mar 18, 2008, at 5:35 PM, rlsimon wrote:
which dtv converter box is best?
I recently obtained my two coupons. I used one of them to buy the
Zenith DTT-900 unit which has been favorably reviewed thus far,
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