yeah. I was about to point that out. my cox stuff has been very reliable but
the equipment (both on customer side and on Cox side) ain't like telco stuff.
On Saturday 14 December 2002 11:11, Tim Kelley wrote:
> On Saturday 14 December 2002 3:23 am, Joey Kelly wrote:
> > As an aside, the cable TV market, in addition to offering broadband,
> > has gotten the OK to offer POTS (plain old telephone service), and
> > Cox is now advertising that service here in Nola. One of my
> > co-workers had that installed this week, actually. The upside of this
> > is that by law they are required to maintain 99.9999 (you get the
> > idea) uptime on their POTS service (since your 911 calls go through
> > Cox), which means that your broadband connection is pretty much
> > guaranteed to stay up 24/7 if you also have telephone service through
> > Cox.
>
> Not really, there's stil plenty that your broadband and phone service
> don't have in common; just 'cause your cable phone service is up
> doesn't mean your broadband internet will be at all.
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