Re: digital cable telephony

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What?
Are you guys talking about telephone service with your cable tv service?


<rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Yes, it works fine. You can still wire it for proper line exclusion;
| however, I have not found a case yet where you can dial in to the
| panel. For some reason, panels don't see an incoming ring in the same
| way they do on a Bell line, and subsequently, won't answer the phone.
| Haven't tried asking the customer to force the panel to answer an
| incoming ring; that might still work..
|
| All the usual cautions about power failure, using a UPS etc apply here,
| since in some ways, this is not too much different than VoIP (albeit
| somewhat more reliable it seems)
|
| Don wrote:
| > anyone have any experience using the digital cable telephone service
with an
| > alarm system?  Is the alarm able to report to centrals tation ok?  NIck
said
| > he can program systems over the digital cable network so I assume an
alarm
| > would work on it.  Any real life experience out there before I take the
| > plunge?
|