Verizon "Home Connect" service
We have the Verizon Home Connect service at our stick and brick house. This trip we took the base for the phone along and the router for the Verizon service. Works a treat. Both run off a small invert...
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strollin wrote:charlysmom&dad wrote:
Since this works on cell service, do you still have wifi, for your computer, in your home?
I've thought about getting rid of my home phone, but I still need the lines coming in to my home for wifi. Phone company would charge more for just wifi, without phone service, so I just keep things as is.
Wifi has nothing to do with it. You most likely have DSL from the phone company. Wifi is how your computer or tablet connects to your router, the router is connected to the internet (in your case) by DSL. Since your phone line is used for both your phone service and internet, it makes sense for you to keep your landline.
Lots of assumptions being made that everyone looks exactly like you. We have a WiFi router and has been connected to the internet via Wifi connection to a Verizon mifi 4G device. It costs us $180 per month for our two 20GB data plans. We will be switching that next week to an unlimited data at $256 a month using a T-1 land line with our new Cisco 1921 $1000 router. Then the T-1 will go to the Cisco router and from there to the Cradlepoint wireless router with a Cat 5e cable and from there using Wifi 802.11n to our laptops and our television set.
We got royally burned a year ago when we were sold on the Verizon home service and were not told that it required a 4G signal strong enough for the base station to connect. We had no connection at our house and it took 2 full weeks to get our POTS land line service re-established. So no phone service, land line or wireless, for that period of time.
Friends had the same disaster when they signed up for AT&T's Universe service a week ago and then AT&T disconnected their land line service and then the AT&T Universe people told them that actually their neighborhood did not have the service available. They were told by the local AT&T POTS people that it would take 28 days to get their land line service established again and they run a business out of their home.
Buyer beware does not being to describe the dysfunctional communications and phone service environment in the USA. We resemble a third world country in this area in the same way we do with our antiquated mass transit and train infrastructure or lack thereof.
