Re: [PLUG] Boxes for Internet in Garage?

[gary@duzan.org]

  Be careful, though. Verizon sold some of their network to Frontier, so
the "Verizon" equipment could very well be providing the service you are
paying Frontier to provide.

                                    Gary Duzan


=> Its for Verizon FiOS service. If you don't use them then you can safely
=> unplug the battery and the outlet.
=>
=> Unlike POTS lines, FiOS needs power. The battery is a backup in case you
=> lose electric service.
=>
=> I have the same thing mounted in my basement.
=> On Jan 24, 2015 4:24 PM, "Paul Jungwirth" <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>
=> wrote:
=>
=>> Okay, thanks for your thoughts! Here are some pictures, in order from
=>> the street to the garage boxes.
=>>
=>> http://illuminatedcomputing.com/img/internet-pictures/20150124_120849.jpg
=>> 1. In the front yard, with a pipe going into the ground and a coax
=>> cable going right through the fence into the back yard.
=>>
=>> http://illuminatedcomputing.com/img/internet-pictures/20150124_121040.jpg
=>> 2. Shot of #1 opened.
=>>
=>> http://illuminatedcomputing.com/img/internet-pictures/20150124_121256.jpg
=>> 3. In the back yard, coax running from the left, split into three: one
=>> up and into the house to our modem, two into the garage (probably
=>> straight into #7). Notice another coax coming up out of the ground no
=>> longer attached, probably an old input. Also a telephone box.
=>>
=>> http://illuminatedcomputing.com/img/internet-pictures/20150124_121325.jpg
=>> 4. Up into the house.
=>>
=>> http://illuminatedcomputing.com/img/internet-pictures/20150124_121431.jpg
=>> 5. Inside the telephone box. Nothing interesting here I think?
=>>
=>> http://illuminatedcomputing.com/img/internet-pictures/20150124_121542.jpg
=>> 6. Inside the garage now. Power adapter I guess?
=>>
=>> http://illuminatedcomputing.com/img/internet-pictures/20150124_121608.jpg
=>> 7. The thing that beeps.
=>>
=>> I agree that #7 might be an old security alarm. The top blue button
=>> says "Alarm Silence." But if I unplug #6 then my cable modem loses its
=>> connection. So I guess #7 is doing more than just being a security
=>> alarm.
=>>
=>> Any ideas? Thanks everyone---this is really fascinating figuring out
=>> what I've got here!
=>>
=>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Rich Freeman
=>> <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
=>> > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Keith C. Perry
=>> > <kperry@daotechnologies.com> wrote:
=>> >> That actually looks like an alarm system battery.  Perhaps the
=>> previous
=>> owners had a [secondary] controller box in there?
=>> >
=>> > I think a picture of the thing the battery goes into would be more
=>> helpful.  :)
=>> >
=>> > I sounds like a description of a Verizon FIOS ONT.  They contain
=>> > batteries so that you don't lose landline telephone in the event of a
=>> > power outage.  Even if you discontinued service the ONT might still
=>> > alarm when the battery wears out.  You could stop it by unplugging the
=>> > ONT from the wall and disconnecting the battery.
=>> >
=>> > FIOS ONTs look like one of these:
=>> >
=>>
https://www.google.com/search?q=verizon+fios+ont&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=WN7DVOzlPKrIsATZiICIBQ&ved=0CDQQsAQ&biw=1745&bih=868&dpr=1.1#tbm=isch&q=verizon+fios+ont+models&revid=477076975
=>> >
=>> > --
=>> > Rich
=>> >
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