Rogers battery backup (Was: Re: What about Acanac?: wasTeksavvy ISP)

[Scott Allen]

On Thu Dec 10,2009 03:56:00 PM Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 03:51:06PM -0500, Michael Lauzon wrote:
>> You do know that 'Rogers' crappy phone system' comes with a
>> battery backup?
> 
> Yes.  It lasts up to 5 hours.  That's totally not good enough.

Even if 5 hours is actually good enough for some, my concern would be:

Is there anything in the system to monitor, maintain and test the 
batteries in the customers' boxes? Is there any guarantee that the 
battery hasn't lost capacity or died over the time since a box was 
installed? I can envision many Rogers customers getting only a few 
minutes or less of phone use during the next lengthy power failure.

Although Bell may also use battery backup, at least it's centralised 
and maintained. Being centralised, the batteries could easily be 
supplemented with generators.

A customer could plug the Rogers box into a UPS in case the internal 
battery fails, but is "Joe six pack" going to consider it? Plus, the 
UPS battery would now have to be maintained. "Hey, we could put 
another UPS in front of that UPS!" ... ;-)

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