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Re: [PLUG] Re: Verizon FIOS..Any thoughts?
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Just a note about FIOS - understand that this is battery backed up at the
user site with a battery that is spec'ed I believe for 8 hours. The wave
of severe storms we had last week proved that as my neighbor, who has
FIOS, lost her phone service after about that amount of time. The power
was off a total of 36 hours. I opt'ed to keep my (copper) DSL here
and although I did not have power to run my computer a dedicated phone
continued to work. While an outage of more then 8 hours is unusual in a
'real' emergency where the power outage is widespread and long the only
thing that will continure to work is the good old copper lines, battery
and backup powered from the CO.
I also don't know what the power requirements are for the large FIOS boxes
they put on the poles. I assume there are batteries in there also??? The
bottom line is you cannot depend on it in a power failure. It is probably
a level better then cable which usually always goes out in a power
failure but not as good a good old copper.
Doug
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* Doug Crompton *
* Richboro, PA 18954 *
* 215-431-6307 *
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* doug@crompton.com *
* http://www.crompton.com *
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