It depends... reasonable people generally appreciate having some kind of service, but a lot of people seem to get more upset about having a partially working connection than no connection at all. It depends on how badly it's crippled too... you could probably get by with a backup that was only capable of about half your normal bandwidth without most people noticing the difference.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 1:14 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: > I used to think that, but anymore, unless they can stream video, the > internet is down. Businesses are different, but residential, if they're > only partially working, they're 'down' according to the customer. > > On 7/26/2021 1:07 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > > Even a low bandwidth cripple route is better than no alternate route. > I wonder how easy it would be to set up a traffic shaper that would block > all streaming when you were on your alternate low BW backup? Just let > email and web traffic flow. > > *From:* Jan-GAMs > *Sent:* Monday, July 26, 2021 11:59 AM > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] cut fiber > > > It kind of does, doesn't it. There aren't that many choices in rural > America, choices have to be existent in order to get chosen. And they have > to be affordable and not in the realm of unaffordobtanium. > On 7/26/21 10:39 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: > > Kinda sounds like the residential guy with a $44.95/mo lowest speed plan > complaining he's losing millions on his eBay auctions. > > If the uptime is worth it, you need redundancy. Fiber has problems. > Wireless has problems. Electronics and software have problems. > > Josh Luthman > 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 12:40 PM Jan-GAMs <j.vank...@grnacres.net> wrote: > >> Must be nice having unlimited access to resources >> On 7/24/21 9:23 PM, Darin Steffl wrote: >> >> Get a backup connection and use BGP. Not rocket science >> >> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 5:38 PM Jan-GAMs <j.vank...@grnacres.net> wrote: >> >>> 5 minutes before the auction starts for the 4H club, the fiber backhaul >>> somewhere gets cut. Several counties got disconnected. Now a whole lot >>> of kids didn't get to sell. Can you believe this shit? Of course >>> because we're on-site we get the blame. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> >> >> -- >> Darin Steffl >> Minnesota WiFi >> www.mnwifi.com >> 507-634-WiFi >> Like us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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