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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Ahh, too bad you didn't specify that it was directv. I thought, though, that they had some sort of card for people without phone lines. Maybe not for sunday ticket, though. (All I know is that a relation has DirectTV in some phone-less cabin in Maine, and it works).
As for the landline, the cheap local service surely is as good a deal as the phone company has. They plug the unlimited local service, and all the features, and soon you're bill is over $40 for phone service alone. Yet if you want the limited service, and no features, you can keep it under $10 (usually). Even if you do make calls for pizza, you'll never use up the monthly message units.
BTW, I would think you could wire up the way that Vonage suggests, and then have the local line act as line 2. (just splice the land line into the line 2 (black/yellow) at your service entry). Then, go to radio shack and buy one or two of the L1/L2/L1+L2 splitter-jacks, and plug the alarm and tivo into the L2 jack.
for clarity, $8.59 online at the 'Shack. Cheaper than a new cordless system.
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The landline will run me about $18 a month, after taxes, 911 surcharges, FCC fees and all that crap.
As for the rest of this, I am afraid of any suggestion that starts "just splice". Let me know if you're ever in south Florida and you can do the splicing for me.
