I have the one of the few that are not in a museum or landfill. AT&T can have my landline phone when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
Within the last year fiber optic finally made its way out our dead-end rural road, so our 'phone service now arrives via that new, modern method. The "glass" was strung from the existing electric service poles, exposed to the weather. Our old land line was buried all the way from I-don't-know-where, rarely ever troubled by weather, and then safely buried up to our house. Can't help but wonder if this is an improvement or not.What on earth is this strange “land line” thingy you speak of?
I'm still attempting to use the new cordless hand sets and all their associated features.
We did that. Been hanging there 20 years now.Think I'll leave the one hanging on the kitchen wall in place, just for grins.
That one reminds me of the recent picture I put on here in a thread of the 1970s era phone we still have here and keep as the bedroom phone, but it is push button and not rotary. The kitchen phone is landline but is a reproduction of the old candlestick style of phone.I still have one hard wired into my phone line in the back room. I had to hand wire in a filter because of the DSL line, no plugins for this phone, heheh. The one thing though, it still works during power and or cell outages. No school like old school.
I was told that the rotary dial may stop working soon (2yrs ago), if it does, I have another that is push button in the shed.
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Looks just like the one in our kitchen.I still have one hard wired into my phone line in the back room. I had to hand wire in a filter because of the DSL line, no plugins for this phone, heheh. The one thing though, it still works during power and or cell outages. No school like old school.
I feel for you. We are still driving 2005 and 2006 Toyota Highlanders.I have hesitated to buy a new car because my old (2016) came with over 600 page owners manual(s).... I've heard that it even worse now because you may not even get the 600 pages; you have to go "on line". It's gonna be hard to "book mark" the few "features" that an old person will care about (like how to turn on the heat and then, how to adjust the temp if you actually do get it on).
J.
I have a cell phone that only works in my home through my computers wifi router. So, no power, no cell phone. I also have a land line that I've had for 20 or so years. Its power comes directly from a telephone pole next to my house. When the electric goes out, that land line phone still works.
Of what use is a cell phone that only works from home through the computer wifi? In my experience, once I'm out of the computer's wifi range, no wifi cell service. [Even with my eero mesh routers, my wifi signal extends only another 25 yards or so.] If yours is different, please let me know the brand of cell phone. It must be very special, indeed.
Of what use is it? I live in the Lakeview Mountains in kind of like a valley between mountains. It doesn't pick up anything from cell towers. Once I drive out maybe a mile and a half, it works just like any other cell phone.
