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a_gs

Phone

Mar 24, 2008 10:56

After moving to Emeryville I got a local phone number and installed a phone. That would be way too ordinary thing to mention if not this:

The service I have is AT&T DSL line, with no phone service. It doesn't even have a dialtone.
The phone itself is an old rotary phone made by Western Electric (then a part of AT&T).
The phone service is Voicepulse ( Read more... )

at&t, voip, photos, hardware

Comments 4

mackys March 24 2008, 18:55:37 UTC

How very retro. ;D

Can you maybe get a red phone to sit next to this one? So when there's a software emergency at work, they can call you on the red phone? ;D

raider3 March 25 2008, 08:53:12 UTC

Wow, I didn't even know AT&T did "dry" DSL lines for consumers. I'd bother with it, but right now, line 2 is the only line that works in my room, since line 1 (main line in my house) is apparently dead at the wall jack. I'll need to fix that, as soon as I CAN CLEAR A PATH TO THE DAMN JACK - I really, really, REALLY need to jump start cleaning out my room. Perhaps then I can get off my ass and relocate the cordless phone extension back to my room ( ... )

a_gs March 25 2008, 13:44:04 UTC

Wow, I didn't even know AT&T did "dry" DSL lines for consumers.

It does. Of course, it does that in its traditional retarded manner, so it taken them two weeks to get my address right, they couldn't tell if the line is installed or not and asked me to check for dialtone (that obviously wasn't there), then bounced me to line repair department that seemed to have no means to identify a dry circuit, etc. Once the line installed, it worked except for few hours outage in three months (as they explained, a router was hung, and apparently they are blissfully unaware of router monitoring). In their infinite wisdom they gave me a Motorola/Netopia DSL modem that couldn't reset the connection once the outage was over and was stuck until I returned home from work and power cycled it.

I'd bother with it, but right now, line 2 is the only line that works in my room, since line 1 (main line in my house) is apparently dead at the wall jack. I'll need to fix that, as soon as I CAN CLEAR A PATH TO THE DAMN JACK - I really, really, REALLY need to jump ( ... )

nickhalfasleep July 27 2008, 16:24:17 UTC

Does the phone still have the "Property of Western Electric" stamp on the bottom of it? I have a mountain states one that I'd love to convert to a VoIP receiver, but I think the easiest way to do that would be to embed a full asterisk pbx inside of it so that the rotary dial clicks still function without some crazy PIC.