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fibre phone service during power outage
Is there an option for powering the Fibre Optic ONT during a power outage?
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- NFtoBC
Community Power User
It is offered in areas with poor cellular coverage, or to customers without cellular service. I expect managing battery replacement became a time liability, and most folks had other options for telephone coverage during power outages. If important for you, consider a UPS, and you can power all your telecommunications system (phone and internet).
NFtoBC I have thought about a ups. My ont is backed up by a telus batt backup because i have telephone on fiber. I am thinking a smaller ups could run the 3200m and give us access to the internet during outages. Retired power linemen i have a generator but would not trust it to deliver a constant 60 hrz. We seem to get a couple of 24 to 36 hour outages a year now always tree related. We have disabilitys and with the virous would be easier to text and mail friends during outages A small ups would allow the 3200 to give us wifi correct. Polecat
They used to install and provide a battery back-up. further to that point ALL Telus CO's have battery back-up for copper dial tone... just saying
Thanks.
It's funny that they label the ONT with POTS which doesn't even vaguely seem 'plain' .
dernalbert Kent2 There is pots 1 and 2 ports on my ont ---- pots1 is hooked to the house copper lines whitch have been seperated from incoming telus line. Old copper line is dead. Polecat
FuzzyLogic dernalbert Note at that time we had NO CELLPHONE and we have mobility problems. Polecat
- Thanks for the info.I wasn't thinking about this when they installed it. A friend was telling me about his VOIP service that failed when there was a power outage and it dawned on me that my service would probably fail under the same conditions.I'm rearranging the setup of the service boxes at home and I took a closer look at the ONT and noticed a BTRY light. Naively, I thought that maybe it would come on indicating battery power when I pulled the power cord--TELUS wouldn't sell me service that didn't work in a power outage or inform of that fact, would they?Anyway, I waited till everyone was in bed and pulled the cord to test my hypothesis and, guess what ....So I suppose that it will be necessary to get a different version of the ONT from TELUS--is that correct?
dernalbert I have an ont and a seperate batt pack. Different ont built in batt ?? Polecat
dernalbert FuzzyLogic When i had fiber installed in 2017 i asked them for batt backup and got it. Make sure you have a power plug available for both ont and batt and in my case the t3200m all in one location. I had all in place before asking for the fiber. Telephone copper was right there to do the transfer. I knew batt was available but was it comon to offer it then ??? I have push button phones for backup in my basement and garage. Polecat
- FuzzyLogic
This thread mentions the possibility of a UPS under certain circumstances:
Backup power for fibre access - TELUS Neighbourhood
