a new BBS...

[Jim Leonard]

Zane H. Healy wrote:
> At 11:45 PM -0700 9/20/08, David Griffith wrote:
>> Now as soon as I can figure out how to do POTS modem dialing through a
>> cell phone, I'll call.
> 
> How much longer will old fashioned modems continue to work with the 
> evolving phone systems that we have?  When it was looking like I'd be 
> forced to move to Verizon FIOS a couple weeks ago, I made inquiries and 
> learned that if you have FIOS you can not use a modem.

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...
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