On wednesday my home phone stopped working. The phone company is aware and is working on it and they say the issue is not in my home but outside. Well there have been no storms latley its actually been really hot with the heat wave. Can excessive heat damage the phone lines or something. WE have no dial tone and people can call but the phone does not ring in the house.

Typically heat is not an issue but certainly not out of the question; depending on where you live with respect to your serving central office there can lots of sensitive electronics between your home and the CO. Are you neighbors out of serve as well? That is a pretty indicator as to the extent of the trouble. Seems like 5 days would be plenty of time to clear a trouble. Contact your provider for a status on your trouble report.

I live in Tennessee my zip code is 37130 I need a home phone but I don’t have a computer or internet service. What companies offer home phones by themselves besides At&t/Bellsouth?

Check the phone book. How would people all over the world know or even care?

I live in Tennessee my zip code is 37130 I need a home phone but I don’t have a computer or internet service. What companies offer home phones by themselves besides At&t/Bellsouth?

Check the phone book. How would people all over the world know or even care?

My family just ordered internet and home phone service from Centurylink. We really only got Century link because we live out in the "sticks" and no other services will come out here. We have already had a problem and it hasn’t even been fully set up. So,I was just wondering if Centurylink was a good choice and I wanted to ask if you have had any problems or if you have heard of any problems with this company.

Thanks!!
I have had no problems in 3 years with Centurylink. The service is always on time in the 4 hour window they give you and the repairman are polite.
If you live in a lightning prone area, pay the extra $5 a month for the inside wire maint. plan. It will save you a lot if you have a lightning hit. I’ve been hit three times in Central Florida.
Get at least the 3 meg dsl line if you plan to stream movies.

I was thinking about switching my phone service to Vonage and I was hoping people that have or have had Vonage could leave me some feedback so I can make my final decision.
Thanks!

Pros:
- The audio quality of Vonage’s VoIP service is very good, if you have a good internet connection. You should measure your jitter and packet loss here: http://www.pingtest.net/
- Vonage’s uptime is admirable. Rarely are there reports about Vonage being "down".
- If you move or go traveling, just take your Vonage device with you and plug it in.
- Vonage is probably cheaper than your phone company and may offer better packages and features.

Cons:
- If your internet connection stops working, so does your phone.
- If you want Vonage to work for all the phones in your house, you have to set it up yourself. See http://michigantelephone.workbench.net/ for good instructions about how to do that.
- Vonage has lots of hidden fees. The price you see on their website is not the price you pay. Expect $5.00-$10.00 more per month than they advertise, depending on where you live. This makes Vonage more expensive than many competing VoIP providers.
- Vonage isn’t known for being an upstanding citizen. For example, they were recently the subject of a 32-state investigation into their business practices.

I registered for my home phone service online and haven’t received any correspondence since then. Now i need to disconnect but do not know where to call.

All the information you need is on your phone bill.

I have clear wire internet service for my P/C and home phone service, I just purchased a new All-in-one
HP fax printer scanner & copy machine, I’m unable to fax anyone have this internet service and have a H/P issue

VoIP does not work well with data or fax transmissions… and I would assume that having VoIP over a wireless connection would be even more difficult since it would likely increase the latency of the connection compared to a wired connection….

you need a LAND LINE phone to use a fax machine… any other type of phone service will not work, or will work intermittently at best for fax machines and other dial up data services (like an alarm system)

your best option would probably be to get an efax service for your faxes…

A couple of years ago we changed from Bell to Rogers. When Rogers came, they installed the phone service which also included this tiny black box. What is the box for? and also is it needed for Rogers internet? We changed our phone service back to Bell but not our internet (which is still using Rogers.) do I need to bring the box back to the Rogers company?

The box installed by Rogers for home phone service is known as an EMTA, or a phone terminal. It’s used to convert the digital signal carrying the phone line over the Rogers cable lines into regular analog telephone signals that can be distributed throughout the house on your existing telephone jacks. Yes, you will need to return the terminal to a Rogers Plus location, otherwise you will be charged $99 (plus taxes) in unreturned equipment charges.
The phone terminal is not required for cable Internet, as you should also have a separate cable modem for this purpose.

I am looking for the cheapest way to connect to the internet. AT&T is offering $19.99 a month for dsl. I was wondering if i can get that without having to get phone service.

You ask what I asked of AT&T. In looking for an alternative ISP without phone or cable, this is what I discovered.

The answer to your question is "Nope". DSL comes through the phone line and that is definitely NOT available — at least not available in this state — without a basic voice service charge on top of the DSL charge. I already tried, including asking about subscribing to a "data-only" line — which is LOTS more expensive than the DSL + phone that I already have.

To drop my phone service and still have broadband in this area, I’d have to subscribe to cable to use their cable modem service — that is, pay at least a minimum-service cable television fee on top of the broadband fee. I don’t watch TV, so their cable modem isn’t my answer either.

The only other choices are unacceptably slow non-broadband dial-up (which again requires a land-line), or a fairly slow (1/5th the speed at best) and VERY data-expensive cell tower connection — either an Android cell phone (over which up to 5 computers can use the Internet at once) or a less useful (one-computer-at-a-time unless one computer is made to be a router) USB data modem that’s just a cell phone without voice.

Near our state capital (two counties over), an FM/TV-frequency Internet service is offered — which is an ideal solution for unpopulated areas — but politics means I’ll likely never have that option here since Google dropped out and let Verizon and others buy those extra analog TV frequency allocations freed up by digital TV — that forced everyone to buy digital TV’s or converters. If I lived in that metropolitan area, I’d expect those FM/TV frequencies to be unable to carry really heavy traffic at high speeds. Hope I’m wrong. A related effort, "white space" ISP/networking, might be progressing fast enough to end-run around the big providers — but don’t count on it. See http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/long-distance-wifi-rule-could-be-just-10-days-away/7318?tag=nl.e539

So for now, I remain an unwilling customer of AT&T, drooling at the thought of being able to afford paying for data over a Linux and Android-based cell phone that happens to also serve all my computers as a wireless router and broadband modem.

Good luck!

I want to switch to T-mobile at home because it is a lot cheaper but I’m worried that I will lose my DSL service if I cancel my AT&T home phone plan.

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