a new BBS...

[Bob Bradlee]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:43:38 -0500, Chris Elmquist wrote:

>On Sunday (09/21/2008 at 05:48PM -0600), bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
>> Jim Leonard wrote:
>>>
>>> To be fair, if you are lucky enough to qualify for Verizon FIOS, you won't 
>>> ever want to use a modem.  30mb/s downstream to the house...
>> Umm Upload rate is what ... BBS's send not suck data. ;)

>However, you might still want to use a modem if you have a home security
>system or a satellite TV receiver...  all of which use an embedded modem
>to "phone home".

>VoIP (voice over IP) telephony is causing a lot of grief for these legacy
>dialup technologies.

>Chris



For those with home businesses, be warned the TRANZ credit card machines are not happy with VOIP 
and want to be connected to a POTS line. Both my CC machine and my DirecTV boxes are connected to 
the analog side of my POTS/DSL line. They both autodial 1-800 numbers so the basic metered local only 
service works just fine. I use my cell phone or the "Business" ISDN line for all voice and fax calls.

The other Bob