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Archive for the ‘Telephone’ Category:
2023-10-21 I Had To Get My Uverse Wiring Repaired
This Saturday I had to wait for first, an at&t tech to verify that the outage was in their cabling. Then he found that the problem was 585 feet upstream, and he didn’t do pole climbing, he had tondispatch someone from Construction who climbed poles and had a bucket truck that could access the cables
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2023-10-19 Telephone Receiver Click Suppressor Varistor
I posted the photo of the back side of the receiver (earpiece) for a Bell System telephone (either 500 or 2500) set. I said that the green blob in my photo (and the ’44A’ metal can in the wikimedia photo below) was used for reducing the volume of loud signals. Well, that’s only slightly correct.
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2023-09-19 How Area Codes Were First Assigned By Telcos – Dr. Tyson
Well, Dr. Tyson got a few things not quite right. For one, he said that the area code numbers were chosen so that the most *people* would have do dial the least amount of digits. Well, that was just a side benefit. The central office equipment can’t have a dialer for every telephone, so they
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2023-09-03 Ethernet And POTS Over The Same Pair
When I was in the Army in Germany, I worked at the switchboard. We had a few telephone lines between HQ where I was and other missile battalions. These were from the German telephone system. There weren’t enough telephone pairs so they ordered the transformers used to make phantom circuits and installed them at both
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2021-06-23 High Maintenance #3
Kate J. The guys had code words for some of the PITAs who frequently called the help desk. One lady, H.M.3 – high maintenance #3, kept asking for the cord replaced on her phone’s handset. I must’ve replaced it a half dozen times. It turned out that the problem wasn’t the cord, the network itself
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2021-04-13 5g And Newest Phones
The 5g network will take a year or more to be built out, and the high speed is to me a mixed bag. So with Google Fi, I pay by the GB. I’m paying $24 when I’m using zero data (WiFi only) and I pay up to $83 for 6GB or more. If I get
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2020-03-31 Collecting Novelty Transistor Radios
Also FB group Vintage Transistor Radios Collecting novelty transistor radios has a few drawbacks, the most obvious is that they are much rarer than regular transistor radios. Generally the new novelty transistor radios are much more expensive then a regular radio due to their limited production. The customer who just wants a radio is going
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2018-08-31 An Old Software Saying
From FB group Bell Telephone… 2018-08-31 Gary Stoutenburg I love that comparison. 👍 There’s an old IT adage: “The first 90% of the software takes 10% of the time. The last 10% of the software takes 90% of the time.” The user interface is a big time and money sink, so a lot of corner
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2018-07-28 New?? Cisco Phone Set
From FB group Bell Telephone… Steve Hart I used to do a shenanigan when we had a Cisco IP phone die. If the ‘factory reset’ didn’t cure the problem, with the help of the ladies, I would give a ‘new’ phone to the client. I would make sure the phone, especially the handset, was cleaned
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