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I've been using voip for 5 years, so while i technically don't have a "land line", i am not completely cellular either. we do kind of need it so the wife can call overseas for cheap

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee (Post 2653695)

and have gone cellular only?

I don't know why I'm having such a tough time cutting the cord. HA! :rolleyes: Must be psychological. I can't come up with any real good reason to keep spending money on it yet I still do.

I use an internet service now, so, yeah it's still a land line, but unlike verizon, comcast keeps up with line maintenance.

It's pretty obvious that I'm a dinosaur. :o

It would figure that my son w/Ds just finally got the home phone number down and spoken clearly. I should probably get him working on my or my wife's number before cutting loose.

*** Some info about a problem that really isn't... ***

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Originally Posted by MTI (Post 2654314)

I think it's funny that one of the proposals being floated to address the depletion of unique internet IP numbers . . . party lines! ... Last of the IP Addresses Handed Out

FROM: http://www.whatismyip.com/#ixzz1D4XtyYtF

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IPv4: Currently used by most network devices. However, with more and more computers accessing the internet, IPv4 IPs are running out quickly. Just like in a city, addresses have to be created for new neighborhoods but, if your neighborhood gets too large, you will have to come up with an entire new pool of addresses. IPv4 is limited to 4,294,967,296 IPs.

IPv5: This is an experimental protocol for UNIX based systems. In keeping with standard UNIX (a computer Operating System) release conventions, all odd-numbered versions are considered experimental. It was never intended to be used by the general public.

IPv6: The replacement for the aging IPv4. The estimated number of unique IPs for IPv6 is 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 or 2^128.

The old and current standard of IPs was this: 192.168.100.100 the new way can be written different ways but means the same and are all valid:

* 1080:0000:0000:0000:0000:0034:0000:417A

* 1080:0:0:0:0:34:0:417A

* 1080::34:0:417A

Read more: http://www.whatismyip.com/#ixzz1D4XtyYtF

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IPv6 is pretty much, already, intigrated into most computers, and has been, since about 2001 or so.

So...this isn't going to turn into a "Y2K" type of panic...unless the idiots don't read before screaming about "Internet Armageddon." :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by The Clk Man (Post 2653785)

Bill, keep your Land Line. One of these days those satellites are going to fail. I choose to keep my land line to be safe. :D

The land lines are connected in spots by satellite relays. It does you no good.

Better to keep transceiver radios or CBs around.

I got rid of my landline in 1998.

I use the well advertised VOIP. I lived in a rural area and Verizon was ripping me off for phone service. Almost every call out of my little area was a toll call. Went to VOIP 5 years ago and love it. I unhooked the wires coming into my box on the outside of the house and plugged a cord from my Vonage router into one of the jacks in the house and all the jacks in the house are now live. You can also use wireless phones with the system. I have family in Europe and it costs NADA for my wife to chat endlessly.
$30 a month includes taxes.