Ahhh, thanks for this. Sounds like maybe what I could do in that direction
is have some sort of internet connected sign that shows the internet
status. At least then no one would think it's just them.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Alex Hillman <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Internet downtime sucks and we’re in a similar situation, having only one
> ISP option.
>
> We tried an LTE backup and it was actually *worse* than not having
> internet when it goes down. At least when it’s down you know it’s down vs.
> when the LTE backup kicks in and it’s frustratingly slow but people try to
> use it anyway.
>
> People are upset either way, but we learned that they’re actually less
> upset when they know it’s down and they can just find other work to do vs.
> wondering “maybe the internet is just slow right now” and getting
> frustrated with that.
>
> -Alex
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> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Elliott Williams <ellio...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We've had 5-20 minute outages several times on our area over the last few
>> months (pittsburgh). I'm pretty sure it's not our internal network as I
>> live 5 blocks away and my home internet has been spotty as well.
>>
>> I'm wondering what people do for "backup" internet. We only have one ISP
>> piped into our building, so I was thinking of a LTE router. Anyone have
>> experience with this?
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