I've never had phone service through a cable company. Do the phones plug in to some special box that hooks up to the cable system via coax?<br><br>Perhaps you can do an experiment and try to sign up for netzero or some other dialup ISP to see if your modem signals can travel over the line?<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Christopher Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbsmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">cbsmith@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have no idea if it'd work, but it'd be funny as all get out to try. My bet is it works but not nearly at 56kbps. I'd try to get one of the cheapest phone lines the phone company offers instead.<br>
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--Chris<br>
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On Dec 2, 2012, at 5:24 PM, Braddock Gaskill <<a href="mailto:braddock@braddock.com">braddock@braddock.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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><br>
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 17:20:36 -0800, Jess Bermudes <<a href="mailto:jbermudes@gmail.com">jbermudes@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>> You want a POTS line specifically to only use for a 56k connection to<br>
> the<br>
>> internet?<br>
><br>
> I was thinking of setting up a dial-up bbs.<br>
><br>
> -braddock<br>
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>><br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Braddock Gaskill<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:braddock@braddock.com">braddock@braddock.com</a>>wrote:<br>
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>>><br>
>>> Does a 56kbps analog modem have any hope of traversing a Time Warner<br>
>>> Cable<br>
>>><br>
>>> (voip?) phone line?<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> If not, what is the cheapest way to get an old fashioned hard POTS<br>
> line?<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> -braddock<br>
><br>
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