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> What I really don’t relish, though, is losing Internet access In my experience with Comcast Business Internet, their upstream equipment goes offline a few mi
by scottlamb 6y ago
> What I really don’t relish, though, is losing Internet access
In my experience with Comcast Business Internet, their upstream equipment goes offline a few minutes after a power outage. So regardless of how you're powering your own equipment, it's hopeless.
The cell network appears to persist through power outages, but bandwidth, packet loss, and jitter aren't ideal in the best of circumstances. When it's the only Internet access for the whole neighborhood, you should probably just give up on your videochat meetings...
- zrail 6y agoThat's really interesting. It seems like in my area their system stays up and running but that's probably because lots of people have their home phone service running through Comcast.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoA little while ago we had a state wide power outage and after a few hours even the cell towers were gone (there may have been some reserve for emergency calls on other networks). I can't remember if it was this incident or another one short after that left me without power for 3 days in a first world country that wasn't hit with a large natural disaster. After this the local government quickly made changes so these days it isn't so bad. One of the improvements is a massive battery backup system owned by Tesla which is able to smooth power supply when there are unexpected spikes in demand or a power station goes offline. Its kind of weird sitting in the dark with absolutely no communication ability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout