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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wireless dropping connections
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:30:01 +0100
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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 01:49:21 +0000
> Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 01 November 2012 00:07:36 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > 
> > > that phone is the master base station for the other two slave
> > > handsets. Unplug it, and the house phone stops working; this will
> > > upset missus/daughter mightily as they can't speak to granny 10 time
> > > a day anymore. [ don't ask, please don't ask :-) ]
> > 
> > Ah, sympathy duly offered.
> > 
> > Surely you could negotiate a period of a few minutes in which to
> > conduct a test? At least then you'd know.
> > 
> 
> I'd need a full day to do a reasonable test.
> 
> I suppose I could just issue a decree:
> 
> "Nov 3 shall now be known as No Phone Day"!

Why not just forward the line to a cell phone for a few hours?

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