Slugmax wrote about poor cellular
noting that he and his wife are "both
old enough to remember when phone call
quality did not suck. It all makes me
tape-based answering machine."[1]
technologies have worsened audio
quality in comparison to some of the
old analog technologies we used to
use.
As for a landline, I didn't want to
true landline. Nor did I want to pay
their competitors' VOIP price. So I
those generic VOIP providers. It
approximates landline quality (of
course, that depends on your codec
talking to someone with a crappy cell
connection...). I've used a few
years since then, and my experience
s, the closer their facilities are to
you, the better. Nothing beats a short
The other thing that I really like
about VOIP relates to Slugmax's
tape-based answering machine. Perhaps
that was meant in jest, but when I was
figuring out what equipment I'd need
to set up my VOIP account, I stumbled
across a forum where people were
(or ATA) called the Grandstream HT502.
out with your rotary phone. Perhaps
Grandstream's newer ATAs have this
feature too. I don't know. I bought
the HT502 and it has been working
for years.
comments) and an old school answering
machine. I love that I can hear people
leaving messages when I'm doing
away. Sometimes, older really was
better. And it's stupid cool[2].
Well, sometimes. There's nothing
especially when all the digits are at
the high end...
One more thing: one of the most fun
things about having a rotary phone is
that people have uploaded all kinds of
little round cards that you put your
number on in the center of the dial).
So your choice of dial cards is almost
limitless.
[1] gopher://republic.circumlunar.space/0/%7eslugmax/phlog/2019-08-24-crappy-cellular
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1zYNrsx9Pw
