<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Karl Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karl@xtronics.com" target="_blank">karl@xtronics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What I have works, but I would like to get rid<br>
of the POTS phone-line.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>When we switched to VoIP with FreeSWITCH here, we made a decision to keep one POTS line as a backup. We got the cheapest service we could find (from AT&T). We get value for our money because we use it as:</div>
<div><div><ol><li>Our incoming FAX line (using HylaFAX with a Best Data Smart One 56SK modem from the late 1990's that has worked perfectly for years);</li><li>A backup DSL line, plugged into a dual-WAN router. (Our primary Internet is Comcast.)</li>
<li>A POTS line for our alarm system, as highly recommended by our security company; and</li><li>A backup phone line, in case a power failure is longer than the UPS run time. (This happened during the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001.)</li>
</ol><div>We can keep the cost low because other than the alarm system calling a toll-free number, no outgoing calls are made from this line.</div><div><br></div>-- </div><div>Steve</div><br></div></div></div></div>