Comments on: November 17, 2008: First Loss of Power in Peekskill

By: Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:32:58 +0000

Not sure what they do with 911. I just turn off that service and use the cell phones for that.

Con Ed has my number stored so when I call them it is automatic as well. It’s based on a database of numbers/locations not on a geolocating service (because Cablevisions phones can migrate within the region as well as can Verizon.)

By: Charlie and Barbara Vamossy

Charlie and Barbara Vamossy — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:28:12 +0000

Oh, OK, thanks… I was confused when you wrote “not tied to phone or cable”. So your physical connection is via cable, but you are independent from it. How does Vonage handle 911? I find having a “land line” has some advantages like Con Ed’s automatic recognition of your location when you report a problem. But my brother in law, who lives both in the US and in Hungary uses Vonage and carries his US number with him. He loves it.

By: Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:37:14 +0000

VoIP that we use is from Vonage. We love them. Been using them since 2003 and no complaints at all. That connects right to our regular Internet service, in this case Optimum Online from Cablevision (which we are also very happy with.)

By using Vonage, we can take our phone system anytime that we move and just plug it in at our new home or at my dad’s house or my wife’s family’s house and instantly our phones are on and available and people can call us. It is very handy if you move around at all. And the price is just $15/mo which beats most “deals” from other vendors.

By: Charlie and Barbara Vamossy

Charlie and Barbara Vamossy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:06:22 +0000

Just curious: how is the VoIP tied into the Internet? Wireless? Who is the vendor?

By: Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:25:34 +0000

Yeah, that was a long outage. Normally we have cell phones as backup but dad left his off and Dominica let hers die and then forgot to charge it after we had figured out that it was dead.

We have a full VoIP phone (not tied to any landline – legacy phone or cable) and we have a handset that needs no power but the battery that we had keeping everything on and working was beeping and bothering the dog so Dominica turned off the battery which brought down the modem, router and phone system 🙁

By: Charlie and Barbara Vamossy

Charlie and Barbara Vamossy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:35:36 +0000

When we moved to Chapel Hill a month and a half ago, we signed up for Cablevision’s rougvhtTriple Play service (TV,Internet and Phone). Since my wife has serious health issues, I opted to get an 8 hours battery backup for the modem. I also brought with me an old fashioned Princess phone, which needs no electrical hookup. It worked fine today during both power outages. The second outage lasted from 2:30 PM to 8 PM….v