A day? Maybe not - In most cases I could simply drive somewhere for a day or two and get work done. For something that spans a week or so like my fiber outage

A day? Maybe not - In most cases I could simply drive somewhere for a day or two and get work done. For something that spans a week or so like my fiber outage? Worth every penny. As an employee it's my duty to have reliable "transportation" to work - in this case that means Internet access. I did use a 4G LTE hotspot when I lived in less dense suburbs - it worked quite well. In the city core though, I've found that when there is a widescale outage mobile data slows to a crawl and is unusable for work purposes. It's expensive, but when I was contracting being unable to take a sev0 on-call escalation would have cost far more in opportunity cost than paying for the backup line for a year.