On 10/9/14 7:32 AM, David Morris wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2014, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > >> It would of course be a bad thing if taking out the Internet shut the >> house down. > > We've had many more and longer internet failures than power failures. > Never has either failure been due to a down pole (here phone and cable > service is delivered by renting space on power poles). Last week the power was out here for about 4 hours due to an upstream transformer replacement, servers went down immediately due to their ups being sized for mometary outages. around hour two the UPS protecting the cable modem and the router finally ran down. The cellular router I have configured with the same ssid still had plenty of devices connected to it around hour 4 when the power came back on. I sat in my living-room and worked, took calls at so on. The gradual paring back of capabilities as both network and power went away is to my mind the expected and graceful way for a homenet to respond to power and network outages. in many respects the utility of these devices depends on them being connected either to each other or the outside world so it should not be entirely unsurprising that they became less useful either without connectvity to each other or the internet.
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