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Re: home router battery backup


From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:27:34 -0800

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:03 AM Scott T Anderson via NANOG
<nanog () nanog org> wrote:
requiring ISPs to provide an option to voice customers to
purchase a battery backup for emergency voice services
during power outages. As this is only an option and only
applies to customers who subscribe to voice services,

It's worse than that. The FiOS ONT I had would draw on the battery to
preserve the voice ports I didn't even have an active line on, but it
wouldn't power the ethernet port! Which was crazy because my landline
was voip and the whole point of the requirement was that I be able to
dial 911. Which I couldn't do because they cut my Internet port the
voip service needs.

It's silly anyway. If you want battery backup for the ONT, if that's
important to you, just buy a cheap commodity UPS.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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William Herrin
bill () herrin us
https://bill.herrin.us/


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