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It is when you work from home.

• dwheeler 3y ago
  Often you can use cell phone or a coffee shop if it's say 2 days/year of internet downtime. If you need it for an emergency call, you need higher reliability, but you can prioritize, and I don't know how common landlines are any more.
• groby_b 3y ago
  It is? 44 minutes outage per month is critical? I doubt that's true for most jobs. But yes, there are jobs where it is, and some of us (e.g. me ;) are just finicky about network connectivity. In which case I highly recommend having a fallback connection, with a different modality than the main one. For most of us, that means LTE. Tethering is fine if you can live with <5 min outages, but sure, you can also do automated failover. But it's not a level of service that I think is reasonable to expect from a single ISP connection. A single construction incident will burn the annual SLO budget, and there's nothing the provider can do about that. (And of course, it'd still be nice if telcos ran their backends competently. Looking at you, AT&T)
• jzb 3y ago
  I would be annoyed at losing a day or so of work, if the outage was all at once - but nine hours a year is tolerable. I wish my ISP was that reliable. Hell, I wish my power company was that reliable. Where I live it's common to have a number of outages longer than eight hours every year. Last year a moderate storm caused power outages for a couple of days in August affecting thousands.
• jdminhbg 3y ago
  Generously, if you work 2000 hrs/year, that's less than 25% of a year's total hours, so it's only 2 hrs of work downtime on average. If you need better connectivity than that, you should pay for a higher SLA or make sure you can tether a cell connection or something.