Dead VoIP Line Blues

Technology teaches lessons that sometimes come to us in “well, duh” moments. Just this afternoon, I was yakking away on my VOIP phone when the line went dead. Poof … no dial tone, no nothing. The first thing I did was look at the VOIP telephone adapter. The lights were all out. Terror crept up my spine …

"What am I going to do with no phone," I thought for a fleeting moment.

And then I looked over at my daughter, who was sitting next to the VOIP telephone adapter (TA). The lights might have gone off on the TA, but one flickered on in my head.

I looked underneath the desk at the TA's power supply, where my daughter's left foot just happened to be dangling happily.

Our little darling had knocked the power supply out of the wall socket.

Well, duh. No power, no Internet telephone.

"No matter which VOIP plan you have, the phone won't work in a power outage" is a frequent argument among VOIP disbelievers. But there's an easy way to remedy that ... simply plug the VOIP telephone adapter into an uninterruptible power supply (UPS).

Of course, I don't have my TA hooked to an UPS ... just yet ...