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Re: home router battery backup
From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:38:40 -0500
On Jan 13, 2022, at 12:28 PM, Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net> wrote: Once upon a time, Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net> said:AT&T and Comcast don't seem to provide battery by default if you buy voice service from them.The only major power outage I've experienced at my house (I've been here over 20 years) was the May 2011 tornado outbreak, when TVA lost hundreds of distribution towers, and my local utility lost all feeds. At the time, I had AT&T POTS, Comcast cable/Internet, and T-Mobile cell.
You are lucky. In my areas we have many power outages and in my ~20 years in my current house, we have had several outages that went past 3 days in various weather (spring, summer, fall, winter) Not only were we impacted by the NE blackout, but just in the short time I’ve had a generator it’s run around 0.5% of the time due to grid outage, with the prior year we had 7 different outages. I also don’t believe the reporting is accurate from this source I’m doing a quick SWAG of, I think it’s been longer. It’s so bad I monitor the grid voltage and have it in influxdb+grafana dashboard (I recommend iotawatt if you want a neat device) - Jared
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- Re: home router battery backup, (continued)
- Re: home router battery backup Mark Tinka (Jan 12)
- Re: home router battery backup Andy Ringsmuth (Jan 12)
- Re: home router battery backup Mark Tinka (Jan 12)
- Re: home router battery backup Sean Donelan (Jan 12)
- Re: home router battery backup Mark Tinka (Jan 12)
- Re: home router battery backup Ryan Wilkins (Jan 12)
- Re: home router battery backup Justin Streiner (Jan 12)
- Re: home router battery backup Jay Hennigan (Jan 12)
- Re: home router battery backup Brandon Martin (Jan 12)
- Re: home router battery backup Chris Adams (Jan 13)
- Re: home router battery backup Jared Mauch (Jan 13)
- Re: home router battery backup Stephen Stuart (Jan 13)
- RE: home router battery backup Ryland Kremeier (Jan 13)
- Re: home router battery backup Dave Taht (Jan 13)
- RE: home router battery backup Ryland Kremeier (Jan 13)
- Re: home router battery backup Stephen Stuart (Jan 13)
- Re: home router battery backup Chris Adams (Jan 13)
- Re: home router battery backup Dave Taht (Jan 13)
- Re: home router battery backup Brandon Martin (Jan 12)
- Re: home router battery backup Dave Taht (Jan 13)
- Re: home router battery backup Chris Adams (Jan 13)
- Re: home router battery backup Tony Wicks (Jan 13)