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<P>When Mediacom tried selling it to me I told them I had no interest in VOIP and the rep indicated there was a distinction between VOIP and broadband phone service. Didn't matter to me. I want a POTS line for reliability. I've lost cable and electricity over the past 25+ years a lot more often than I've lost my POTS. If you don't have electricity you can't power a cable modem and you can't charge a cell phone battery.</P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message from neal daringer <admin@c0wzftp.com>: -------------- <BR><BR><BR>> maybe what i said about not being ip was wrong (in a sense). from what i <BR>> understand, from reading mediacom tech posts on broadbandreports is that <BR>> their ATA's work on a seperate network than the internet service do. <BR>> i.e. ITT when you hook it up to the cable modem it pulls a different IP <BR>> address altogether than the public ip you have for internet access. <BR>> <BR>> at least thats what i understand from what the tech says. i wont get it <BR>> b/c mediacom doesnt have half the features that vonage has. although im <BR>> still looking for the call block feature where i can block individual <BR>> numbers. if i ever get around to it, i'd just get some ip phones and <BR>> start using my pbx and block callers that way. <BR>> <BR>> Jeffr
ey Ollie wrote: <BR>> > On 12/5/07, jrnosee@gmail.com <JRNOSEE@GMAIL.COM>wrote: <BR>> > <BR>> >> Are you sure about it not being VOIP? I've seen the device, it looks like <BR>> >> it would be a cable modem + sip adapter. <BR>> >> <BR>> > <BR>> > Anyone have one of their modems handy? It should be fairly easy to <BR>> > Google the cable modem model number to find out some more information <BR>> > about it. <BR>> > <BR>> > Jeff <BR>> > _______________________________________________ <BR>> > Cialug mailing list <BR>> > Cialug@cialug.org <BR>> > http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug <BR>> > <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> Cialug mailing list <BR>> Cialug@cialug.org <BR>> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug </BLOCKQUOTE>
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