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keesan
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Telephone
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Apr 30 14:50 UTC 2002 |
Phones seem to have proliferated from when I grew up and we had one (rented
from the phone company) in the hallway. How many phone lines do you have now,
how many phones, and where do you keep them? What else do you have plugged
into a phone line or hooked up to phone service? What color(s)?
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jp2
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response 1 of 47:
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Apr 30 14:59 UTC 2002 |
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gull
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response 2 of 47:
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Apr 30 15:02 UTC 2002 |
I have two phones, one cellular and one conventional. The conventional line
has an ADSL modem, a POTS modem, an answering machine, and two phones
plugged into it. One phone is a modern one with memories and speed-dial,
the other is an old bakelite rotary-dial phone, the kind that's heavy enough
to be used as a weapon. The old phone's receiver is much more comfortable
to hold and talk on for long periods of time.
At work we have a total of thirty-four phone numbers, but only 13 phone
lines. (No wonder area code splits are so common these days.)
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jmsaul
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response 3 of 47:
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Apr 30 15:03 UTC 2002 |
You and Jim use pigeons and a heliograph, right?
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keesan
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response 4 of 47:
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Apr 30 15:09 UTC 2002 |
jmsaul, would you please stop making idiotic remarks like #3?
Would a vegan enslave a fellow creature like that?
We have three phone lines and lots of modems and fax machines and answering
machines plugged into them, at three locations. And a fax-phone switch.
Also a collection of cordless phones that we don't ever use, plus one on the
porch that is in use. A phone in Jim's garage and now one in his basement.
One in each bathroom. No cell phones.
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jmsaul
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response 5 of 47:
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Apr 30 15:24 UTC 2002 |
Wow. I sometimes forget you have a sense of humor. ;-)
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goose
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response 6 of 47:
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Apr 30 15:29 UTC 2002 |
In my house we have 5 POTS lines (three voice, 1 computer, 1 fax), with 8 desk
phones and three cordless phones, mostly white, with a couple black ones and
a silver one. Also there are 4 cell phones in the house, 1 Cingular, 1
Verizon, and 2 Nextel. Those are all black except mine which is silver.
Re#3: Heh.
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slynne
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response 7 of 47:
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Apr 30 15:32 UTC 2002 |
I have one phone line. I have three phones. I have a cordless phone and
desk phone both plugged into an outlet in the kitchen. This is because
the desk phone has the caller id and also because my roommate has a bad
habit of taking the cordless phone up into her room where I cant find
it. Having the desktop phone in the kitchen at least means I can answer
the phone when I need to. My roommate has her PC and another phone
plugged into the jack upstairs.
I have another broken cordless phone in my bedroom but even if it
worked, the jack doesnt work. When happyboy lived with me, he had his
own phone line in there so that jack is for a second phone line that
has been disconnected. I dont know how to change it back and havent
been motived enough to do it.
I also need a phone jack in my basement for my PC. I have a friend who
has offered to help me with my phone jack wiring issues but I havent
bought the stuff needed yet. I suppose I should make a trip to radio
shack or something.
I dont have a second line because I dont feel I need one. I let my
roommate share my phone without paying me anything but she understands
that means I get to kick her off whenever I need to use the phone or am
expecting a call. That doesnt happen very often so she has not decided
to get a second line turned on.
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jp2
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response 8 of 47:
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Apr 30 15:42 UTC 2002 |
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glenda
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response 9 of 47:
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Apr 30 15:50 UTC 2002 |
We have 2 phones hardwired in, i.e. not modular, 1 in the lower hall and 1
in the upper hall. The lower hall is a deskphone with a LONG cord. The upper
hall is a wall phone. STeve put a splitter on the upper hall phone which
usually has an answering machine plugged into it. Staci has a modular phone
which she would switch off with the answering machine until the kitties
decided to chew on the cord.
We are seriously considering getting a second line for the popular teenager
that Staci has become :-)
At some point in the ongoing renovations more jacks will be put in so that
I can have a phone and the answering machine with caller ID on my desk. The
current deskphone will reach my desk but at the risk of people, especially
STeve (with only 1 working eye) tripping over the cord.
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realjp2
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response 10 of 47:
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Apr 30 15:54 UTC 2002 |
One working eye? I have to ask for details on this as I am a cyclops, too.
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slynne
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response 11 of 47:
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Apr 30 15:57 UTC 2002 |
Man, when I was a teenager it would have solved a lot of problems if my
folks had been willing to put in a second line.
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glenda
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response 12 of 47:
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Apr 30 16:01 UTC 2002 |
He had a stroke in September which left him with double vision. He wears an
eye patch on the eye that won't track correctly. Otherwise he gets dizzy and
very nauseated. He will be getting glasses with a prism soon. But the lack
of depth perception causes all kinds of trouble tripping over things like
cords and cats.
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brighn
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Apr 30 16:16 UTC 2002 |
We have three phones on one line. We had a fourth, but the jack is in the room
we don't use anymore.
We have a second phone line used for a modem.
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ric
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response 14 of 47:
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Apr 30 16:23 UTC 2002 |
We have two phone lines in the house, one is a business line.
Ignoring the busines line... phones are connected to our home line in the
office, the baby room, the master bedroom, the kitchen, and the bonus room.
Of those 5 phones, 4 of them are cordless.
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beeswing
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response 15 of 47:
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Apr 30 16:48 UTC 2002 |
One phone jack upstairs that I don't use. One white cordless in the
kitchen, though the phone unit meanders about the house. One pale blue
cord phone in the bedroom. One Nokia cell phone with a black-and-purple
lace motif faceplate. :)
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scott
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response 16 of 47:
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Apr 30 16:52 UTC 2002 |
Phone jacks everywhere, with each jack capable of handling 2-3 phone lines.
"66" style punch block in utility room. That's where the cool stuff ends,
though. One phone line (used to be two), 4 phones. Cell phone also.
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rcurl
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response 17 of 47:
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Apr 30 17:03 UTC 2002 |
Two lines, one used just for computer (which is also the fax). Two
two-line phones; two one-line wired phones, a cordless phone, and an
answering machine, all on line 1. I had an intercom working over the
phone line, but that has been removed.
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gull
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response 18 of 47:
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Apr 30 17:14 UTC 2002 |
Re #16: Huh. I've never seen a house with 66 blocks installed, though I
suppose that kind of thing will be getting more common.
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ea
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response 19 of 47:
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May 1 01:15 UTC 2002 |
Dorm room: 1 phone line, 2 jacks, shared with my roommate. I use a
cordless phone, he has a corded phone.
Home: 3 POTS lines (main number, kids line, work number), 1 ADSL line.
the POTS lines terminate at a punch block, then are spread out to the
rest of the house. Jacks in just about every room.
I carry a cell phone, as do both of my parents.
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jep
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response 20 of 47:
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May 1 02:27 UTC 2002 |
I have a cell phone, and a POTS line which is also for DSL, so two
phone numbers. I have two phones connected to my phone line; one in
the bedroom on my desk, one on the bar in the dining room.
Since I got the DSL connection, which allows incoming and outgoing
voice calls while connected to the Internet, I have never once wished
for a second phone line.
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remmers
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response 21 of 47:
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May 1 02:43 UTC 2002 |
Two phone lines coming into the house -- one we use for voice,
the other for modem. The voice line has a total of six phones
on it -- three on the second floor, two on the main floor,
one in the basement. All but one of these phones is cordless,
so during a power failure only that one will work. Four of
the six phones are black and have built-in caller id.
Oh, and of course Mary and I each have our own cell phone.
Funny thing is, I don't think I have any more phone conversa-
tions than I did when I only had one phone.
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bru
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response 22 of 47:
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May 1 03:14 UTC 2002 |
One cell phone, one land line.
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bdh3
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response 23 of 47:
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May 1 07:35 UTC 2002 |
Hmm. Four POTS lines, one ASDL. Lines terminate at telco 'network
interface' two gray boxes on back of building. Multi-pair cables
enter basement and are punched down on type-66 blocks. From there
to 'media module' (also does RF for radio and TV) a type-110 'rack'
panel with mixture of rj-11 and rj-45 for local distribution to
basement or via multi-pair cables to remaining three floors type-66
block where further distributed to mixture of type-110 rj-45s
and rj-11 terminal blocks (spade). Reason for mixture of 110 and
66 is the majority is scrounged from datacenter moves. (For some
reason folk leave behind when they move out and new folk buy new
when they move in. In my opinion one can actually re-use blocks
even if you have to replace cat-3 with cat-5. All cable scrounged
from rolls of new belden cat-5 as people don't bother to plan
runs and end up with lots of 'short' rolls at the end of a job.)
Thinking about cutting back to three POTS lines now that the
reliability of the ASDL line seems to have improved somewhat.
(currently house line, business line, two fax/modem lines -
both me and whats-her-name are 'bit heads' -ie need connectivity)
Two line wireless phone system with 4 stations. Two separate
wireless phones. Five hardwire phones (no phones in bathrooms -
yet). Two two-line and three one line caller-id boxes - not counting
the computers which log caller-ID and are 'digital answering
machines' which page-out on messages (irritating as haven't
fixed page on hangups). Oddly enough, no wireless networking -
got too many 'crack' programs I guess. Four 'web cams' - can
watch server room, front door, back door, and side alley from
anywhere - motion detector software puts a box around the changed
pixels of snapshots stored (eventually backed up to CD).
No cable TV. Multi-channel streaming audio on in-house network.
(Soon to get CCTV-4 sat dish, 200$US with no subscription fees.)
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mcnally
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response 24 of 47:
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May 1 11:22 UTC 2002 |
No land line, one cell phone.
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