Disability Needs and Landline switch over to run off computer
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Hi jane52,
Sorry I have replied to your message sooner, not been very well.
Yes, you can have more than I phone. I've got one in my living room and the other in my kitchen. The only downfall with this setup is when there's a fault with your WiFi hub your phone doesn't work.
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Hi Ray212,
Yes, your correct. When's there's a fault with the WiFi hub your home phone doesn't work.
Its suppose to be changed for the better, personally it's a bit of a nuisance.
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PSTN is more reliable than modern communication systems. New ones need to be duplicated by a mobile connection, or a second provider with a separate router, etc. Or CB radio.
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We already lost our landline because essentially the provider refused to repair it when it started playing up, saying it would be taken out soon enough anyway. It's caused nothing but trouble, although it does mean that the mobile phone that is now the home phone can be taken out.
We don't have ours off the internet - the number technically still exists, but the room of the house in which the router is located is not convenient to have a phone attached and it would be very costly to reroute it all. So we just went with a mobile phone as a house phone.Absolutely nobody in the house is happy with this, but we were left with zero choice.
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Have you thought about laying the cable where you need it yourself? It's not difficult if you know how to hold a knife and a hammer. It’s sad that they are abandoning PSTN - the systems are simple and quite reliable, resistant to power outages if the telephone exchange has a simple spare power generator.
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There's nobody in the house who would be capable of undertaking a job like that, whether due to age or disability or both. Besides, given the nature of the setup here, I suspect it would be impossible.
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When my service was changed my provider offered a home phone plugged into the router with its own independent SIM card. If the router failed then the phone works with the sim. I had to buy an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) adapter because I realised that it wouldn’t work during power cuts.
It’s like having a mobilt phone that looks like a landline and is powered by mains.
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I googled and found one. I noticed this has a battery installed so no need for UPS.
I works like a mobile phone and some internet providers supply them with your package.
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Yes, I have digital voice and Carelink. My Carelink was changed a couple of years ago so it has it’s own mobile SIM and is completely independent of my phone or internet. I have a pendant so can move around. The system has so many hours of battery back up. I did have one night when the mobile connection went down and it insisted on telling me this repeatedly and there was no way to turn it off!
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In the event of a serious power outage, cellular base stations will also not work.
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yikes! They didn’t tell me that
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Our landline was changed over to fibre, it's affected our phone line mutliple times. Not just the internet going down but the voice box thing needs resetting at times because we can't make or receive calls. If you have a falls buzzer then I wouldn't get rid of a landline until they have sorted out all the issues. My husband is fit and well thankfully as he has to keep moving the tv unit to get to the box on the wall and the other boxes to reset them when the software plays up. I really wish we still had a landline
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In that event, landline exchanges wouldn't be powered either. So it doesn't matter what type of phone you have if your whole area loses power.
Some mobile phone masts are now being powered by solar or wind, so they could still work during a power outage. I suspect the number of those will increase over the next few years.
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You ignore
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When designing communication networks, unreliable "green energy" sources are not taken into account.
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Hello Everyone
To advise I now have the landline switchover where main landline runs off computer/internet so if there is an outage I will lose landline connection. Company re-instated phone upstairs, that phone too will not work if there is a power cut/outage. However they also installed two phones, one upstairs, one downstairs, that will continue to work if there is an outage as they run off their own sim cards, like mobile phones do so. I also have a portable charger so can keep mobile phones and these phones charged in power cut.
Not sure how they might work with any alarm I get yet?
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