micky wrote:
Someone told me that FIOS doesn t work without AC.

Is that so? For intenet, phone, *and* TV? (I guess the TV and
intenet don't matter, since they won't work either without AC, but the
phone would..)

I know most people use a cell phone when their home phone doesn't
work, but I like having the home phone too.

Well, yeah, the modem has to be powered by SOMETHING (it's not like a tin
can on a string).

While you can install a UPS ahead of your modem, there are power
requirements for the signal up the line.

After a recent outage, a Comcast technician told me someone ripped open one
of their street-level boxes in the next block - not a small job - to steal
the two auto batteries it contained!