On 1/12/22 11:25 AM, Fred Baker wrote:
On Jan 12, 2022, at 10:37 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
wrote:
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:18 AM Andy Ringsmuth <a...@andyring.com> wrote:
Given that most people barely even know what their home router is, I suspect
the percentage would be somewhere south of 1 percent. Outside of my home, I
honestly cannot recall EVER seeing someone’s home using a battery backup for
their internet infrastructure.
Same here. The only people I've seen that have battery backups for their home routers
are fellow geeks. I even bought one and shipped it to my ~70-year-old mother...and she
just doesn't want to install it. "Too complicated".
I personally do, but of course I (and probably everyone on this list) am by no means representative of the population at large in this particular area.
Same. My home office has 3 Cyberpower 2500 VA double-conversion UPS units
backed by Champion transfer switches. Power goes out, and ~45 seconds later
I'm running on generator power.
My local ISP runs out of power well before I do. Thankfully there's Starlink.
Short of an asteroid hitting my office, it's highly unlikely I'll ever be
offline. ;)
In my case (California, home of SCE and PG&E), we have been notified by our
electrical grid operators that power can go down at any time, for any reason, and
any duration. I have just moved, so I am speaking in a historical context and
future plans, but we have solar electricity as well and have a battery in the home
that in effect backs up part of the house. We don't back up the Internet service,
because frankly if power is down in the grid I'm not sure my favorite router is all
that important, in addition to the considerations already mentioned. But power can
and does go down - even without asteroids.
We just installed a battery too, but it will probably only last ~1 day
and much less than that in winter. We're in the process of looking at a
generator that interfaces directly with the inverter so that it handles
the grid, the battery, the solar and the generator along with the
transfer switch. It's gone from being the occasional nuisance in the
winter to all year long these days. Our power outage over the holidays
lasted 12 days. This isn't just a rural problem anymore in California,
it's a pretty much everywhere problem now.
Mike
