Random IT question about home network

[disneychrista]

It still worked?

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Yes. I have only ever used the settings from the modem. The COMCAST WiFi is always slower and less reliable.

 

[bcla]

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Yes. I have only ever used the settings from the modem. The COMCAST WiFi is always slower and less reliable.

I was wondering about your neighbor’s Comcast box working on backup power. Cable TV/internet transmission requires power in the neighborhood for amplifiers. Those amplifiers may have battery backup though.

 

[kdonnel]

I was wondering about your neighbor’s Comcast box working on backup power. Cable TV/internet transmission requires power in the neighborhood for amplifiers. Those amplifiers may have battery backup though.

That is where phone company internet tends to excel when compared to cable company internet. The phone company infrastructure is generally all battery backed due to regulatory requirements. Cable companies are less regulated for backup power because they did not start out providing phone service.

 

[disneychrista]

I was wondering about your neighbor’s Comcast box working on backup power. Cable TV/internet transmission requires power in the neighborhood for amplifiers. Those amplifiers may have battery backup though.

During the PSPS in October I could get a signal from somewhere randomly. I figured they had some type of backup or a generator.

 

[bcla]

That is where phone company internet tends to excel when compared to cable company internet. The phone company infrastructure is generally all battery backed due to regulatory requirements. Cable companies are less regulated for backup power because they did not start out providing phone service.

What's the "phone company" though these days? AT&T, Verizon, etc. provide little local phone service, although I guess that have to maintain the old infrastructure. I think most "landlines" these days are VoIP that won't work without internet access. I remember when my parents decided to get VoIP, it became a chicken or the egg problem because that automatically cancelled their DSL. There was some discussion of whether or not AT&T could connect a "dry line to restart their DSL service". They ended up getting AT&T U-Verse internet. I don't believe these new services are regulated quite like local phone lines were.

I guess it really depends on what kind of battery backups are used. A lot of these newer fiber optic networks are a series of transmitters that have to retransmit, although they should be quite efficient.

 

[kdonnel]

What's the "phone company" though these days? AT&T, Verizon, etc. provide little local phone service, although I guess that have to maintain the old infrastructure. I think most "landlines" these days are VoIP that won't work without internet access. I remember when my parents decided to get VoIP, it became a chicken or the egg problem because that automatically cancelled their DSL. There was some discussion of whether or not AT&T could connect a "dry line to restart their DSL service". They ended up getting AT&T U-Verse internet. I don't believe these new services are regulated quite like local phone lines were.

I guess it really depends on what kind of battery backups are used. A lot of these newer fiber optic networks are a series of transmitters that have to retransmit, although they should be quite efficient.

AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, etc (The old parts of what was AT&T) are highly regulated for POTS phone service. Even as they have transitioned to a data provider instead of a POTS provider much of the same infrastructure continues to provide the data and is still highly regulated.

I have been a happy fiber customer of AT&T for several years now. Because much of the POTS service is ultimately fed over the same fiber connections back to the central office the fiber service is generally battery backed in my area.

Since I have been a fiber customer there have been two hurricanes that took out power to areas near me but not my home itself. As a result I continued to have internet while my neighbors with Comcast did not. As the batteries failed, AT&T brought generators out to the effected equipment and rotated the generators around to keep the batteries charged. Comcast customers just had no service until Georgia power restored power.