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>
> I shudder at the thought of Windows machines running entire friggin'
> spam servers installed by way of trojan over ultr-high-bandwidth
> always-on Internet connections. Something that would be far more
> appropriate for Verizon to offer with fiber connectivity than a UPS
> would be a router/firewall that is configured to not only protect the
> user from the Internet but also the Internet from the user. I
> suspect, however, that the UPS offering might be a way to protect
> their cabling and so on from power spikes through home users' machines
> when thunderstorms come through, rather than having anything to do
> with wanting to protect the home users' computers themselves.
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> The UPS is probably there to give some normal phone functionality
in that it can run for a while when you lose power. There may be a
statutory requirement
for this, since Verizon was set up as a monopoly. Normal phones all run
off the phone line
supplied 48VDC.
Richard
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