On Jul 25, 5:37 am, Bruce L. Bergman
wrote:


Thanks for the warning - if they ever try this on us, I get it in
writing that they leave us one line coming in on good old Copper, and
going straight back to the C.O. with no pair gain in the middle that
doesn't have permanently installed generator backup.


-- Bruce --

It may already be too late. The local phone company uses fiber from
the central office to a substation about six miles from the CO. The
connections to the houses are the same copper that they were. This
allows the phone company to sell DSL to the customers that were too
far away from the CO.

So although Too Many Tools may still live in a rural area for a long
time, the chances are that he won't have copper back to the central
office for a long time.

For reliable communications, get a ham license.

Dan