{"id":1078,"date":"2011-05-20T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2011-05-20T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T22:00:06","slug":"drifting-without-a-landline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2011\/05\/drifting-without-a-landline\/","title":{"rendered":"Drifting without a landline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we jumped off the deep end today and dropped our landline connection. We got the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ooma.com\/\">Ooma Telo<\/a> a few weeks ago, tried it out and thought it worked and sounded OK.\u00a0 Then we requested to port our current phone number to Ooma. I figure that the Ooma will pay for itself in less than a year if we dropped Qwest. \u00a0 Today I went out to the box on the side of the house and disconnected from the phone network. I plugged Ooma into the house wiring and now all the phones in the house are running through Ooma.<\/p>\n<p>After a lifetime wired into the network, it will be interesting to see what happens. We are on a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MMDS\">MMDS<\/a> broadband wireless connection to the internet\u00a0 so the only physical connection to the grid is the electricity. Ooma will redirect calls to our cell phone if the network connection is down so I am expecting a some redundant connectivity. Of course, if a power loss drops our MMDS tower, it may drop the cell phone tower as well, and then where would we be?\u00a0 And all the electricity in the phone lines will be laughing at us.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t hear anything more from me on this then everything is going so smoothly I have forgotten all about it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we jumped off the deep end today and dropped our landline connection. We got the Ooma Telo a few weeks ago, tried it out and thought it worked and sounded OK.\u00a0 Then we requested to port our current phone number to Ooma. I figure that the Ooma will pay for itself in less than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2011\/05\/drifting-without-a-landline\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drifting without a landline<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-ho","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}