Cable TV Connection ?

[upthesaukee]

Originally Posted by FLboater

Has anyone used Metrocast for their Phone?

We have the phone through Metrocast and so far we love it. We had a hum on our line with Union (TDS) and now it is crystal clear. Not sure why, but since our change over, we seem to have far fewer telemarketers calling, and we did portage our number over from Union.

We like the features, and especially like jumping on line for messages. Instead of having to listen to three or four messages to get to the one you have been looking for, online you can see who called you and choose that message to listen to first. Also like call forwarding, so if I am looking for an important call and have to go out, I can call forward to my cell phone, and not miss the call or have to play telephone tag.

RLW, sorry you didn't like the phone service.

[RLW]

Originally Posted by upthesaukee

RLW, sorry you didn't like the phone service.

I hear you about all the good things and hat was why I wanted to change, but the problem was that I asked 3 or 4 times if the system had battery backup and they said YES. I need it as I'm disabled and have a medical conditions and also my alarm system requires it so I would like it at all times unless a wire came down. The power outage on 2/25 I did not have any phone service like I would have had with the verizon system which has a battery setup in your home that keeps the phone on line for 8 hours and/or Union Communications. I had to go to my neighbors home to use his Union Com working phone. For that reason and only for that reason I decided to change back asap.

[Slickcraft]

Originally Posted by RLW

I hear you about all the good things and hat was why I wanted to change, but the problem was that I asked 3 or 4 times if the system had battery backup and they said YES. I need it as I'm disabled and have a medical conditions and also my alarm system requires it so I would like it at all times unless a wire came down. The power outage on 2/25 I did not have any phone service like I would have had with the verizon system which has a battery setup in your home that keeps the phone on line for 8 hours and/or Union Communications. I had to go to my neighbors home to use his Union Com working phone. For that reason and only for that reason I decided to change back asap.

Our cable moden battery back-up did keep the phone part of the cable modem on-line during the recent power outage but the metrocast cable was down so the phone service was also down. In our case we have cell service at home so we had continued communications.

If you don't have cell back-up then plain old phone service is the most reliable albeit short on other features. Those phone lines are the lowest ones on the pole and least vulnerable to breakage by falling branches. Also the plain old phone service provides it's own power while cable depends on the local power utility to power many cable system repeaters.