small linux based answering machine

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 09:09:18PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> As I understand it, Rogers works very hard to make their VoIP phone
> work during power failures.  (Their phone is VoIP, I think, but uses a
> different channel from broadband IP supplied to cable internet
> customers.)
> 
> Their phone boxes include UPS.
> 
> When we had a 6-hour Toronto Hydro Electric System failure last
> Friday, Rogers came around with generator trucks to power their
> whatever-boxes that live on telephone poles (or are they hydro
> poles?).  I think my Rogers Cable TV and internet service would have
> worked if I had my modem, set top boxes, etc. on UPSes.

What does that help when the battery in the adapter in your house only
lasts 5 hours (and that's when new)?

> Of course Rogers phone service is priced much more like Bell's than
> like other ITSPs.

Yeah they aren't exactly cheaper, so I will stick with something that
simply works by design and doesn't involve UPSs and generator trucks
driving around.

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Len Sorensen
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