On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:13:03 -0500, Frank
wrote:

On 11/3/2012 9:29 AM, George wrote:
On 11/3/2012 6:59 AM, Frank wrote:
Verizon put a fios line to my house to replace the copper wire. It
connects back to the land line box. There is a battery back up in the
fios line in the house. We had been having a lot of copper wire
problems and Verizon did this to solve the problem. We do not have
internet or TV with them.

I also have Comcast and got the triple play (internet, TV and phone) as
the cheapest package when I up graded to HD sets and DVR. The modem
where phone is connected has battery backup but the internet is not
backed up, only the Comcast phone.

There was an interesting problem with comcast. The large area near here
fortunately only had some trees down but extensive power failures (and
of course the cable is down because there is no power for the various
system pieces). So if you had a generator and thought you were going to
watch all of stuff you recorded on your comcast DVR you weren't allowed
to do it because unless the cable box can talk to the mother ship you
can't use it for anything except maybe to prop a door open.

Have not faced that problem. I do have a generator but it is not wired
in to where I have my DVR. I had thought that the recorded shows were
on a hard drive in the DVR and it always tells you how much space is
being used. We've been lucky the last few years and I can't recall more
than a half day's power outage since I bought the generator and cable or
copper line signals were never lost.

When I moved, last spring, I thought I could take the cable box with
me and watch the recorded stuff until I got satellite hooked up. The
shows are recorded on the local disk drive but, he's right. Without
communications with the mothership, the box is no more than an
expensive door stop.