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CLOC-AdminWe just did our walkthrough on our brand new ls34sb today and there are no phone jacks in the unit. Is this common on all lifestyles or was this just an oversight on our unit? Our dealer has agreed to install for us. The Carriage we traded in had several jacks included throughout the unit.Posted: 7:08 AM – Aug 23, 2014Ours has them, but really who uses them these days? Sounds like a reasonable cost cutting effort to me.Posted: 8:01 AM – Aug 23, 2014Understandably, we had phone jacks in our old Travel Supreme and we have them in our 2012 Cameo, but I wonder why. With Cell phone technology, instead of phone jacks they should install signal boosters!
Posted: 11:02 AM – Aug 23, 2014We are Canadian snowirds and for us to use cellphones in the US for communicating with our family at home during our winter stay would be prohibitive. We have not found a more convenient way to keep in touch with the kids than a land line with unlimited long distance calling. For us phone jacks are a big thing.Posted: 11:36 AM – Aug 23, 2014I haven’t used or even needed phone jacks for years. In fact, I thought they were a thing of the past.Posted: 5:52 PM – Aug 23, 2014Alstoy wrote:We are Canadian snowirds and for us to use cellphones in the US for communicating with our family at home during our winter stay would be prohibitive. We have not found a more convenient way to keep in touch with the kids than a land line with unlimited long distance calling. For us phone jacks are a big thing.OK – I can understand the need now! Not everybody has the same needs and the reason is more than valid! Is there a way you could just put a cordless phone base in the basement and use a cordless phone around the coach? Save on the wiring anyway. Just a thought.
Posted: 8:01 PM – Aug 23, 2014Alstoy,Wow, what us yanks forget about!
A wireless phone set would be the easiest with the base in the main storage area where there is easy access to a 110 volt outlet. Lowes and Home Depot sell all of the fittings and wire that are needed. If you don’t need all of your sat in lines, they have pop outs that would replace one of those outlets with one for a phone, but you must wire the inside to your phone.
notruffinit wrote:Alstoy wrote:We are Canadian snowirds and for us to use cellphones in the US for communicating with our family at home during our winter stay would be prohibitive. We have not found a more convenient way to keep in touch with the kids than a land line with unlimited long distance calling. For us phone jacks are a big thing.OK – I can understand the need now! Not everybody has the same needs and the reason is more than valid! Is there a way you could just put a cordless phone base in the basement and use a cordless phone around the coach? Save on the wiring anyway. Just a thought.
Posted: 12:19 AM – Aug 24, 2014Alstoy wrote:We are Canadian snowirds and for us to use cellphones in the US for communicating with our family at home during our winter stay would be prohibitive. We have not found a more convenient way to keep in touch with the kids than a land line with unlimited long distance calling. For us phone jacks are a big thing.We are Canadians and used one of our unlocked cell phones with ‘Roam Mobility’, a Canadian company. We purchased a sim card, and got a 3 month snowbird plan at $40 per month. It provided unlimited calls to and from Canada, calls within US, unlimited text messages to and from Canada and within the US, plus 1 gig of data per month in the US. Roam uses the T Mobile network.
Rick
Posted: 5:35 AM – Aug 24, 2014I am in Jackson, Wy, and the only internet available at my location is Centurylink DSL, which I have had for the last three months. I could have run a wire through an open window, but having the phone jacks made things much easier.It must cost the factory all of $50 to install the phone jacks. Big savings.
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