Re: Cable Modems

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would not count on the cable company allowing the network to go down 
over a power outage, many of them are under governmental supervision 
since they supply services to EMS type facilities (hospitals, 
Fire/Police, etc).  It's very likely they have made the proper 
investments to keep the system running.    They cannot of course stop a 
tree from taking down and physically breaking a line, but just power, 
I'd bet that's adjusted for.

Consider what it would take to bring all those repeaters back on line 
and get communications going.  No one would want to go through all of 
that.  And besides, how are you going to recharge your cell phone 
without a UPS in the house to charge that?

Next week I have a house size generator going in that will run the 
entire house, including the Agile computers, just in case.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 8/5/2013 1:11 PM, John Jones wrote:
> Thanks for all the comments.
> >
> >  I had a feeling that there were probably repeaters etc. in the line that
> >  could be impacted. We rarely get major outages and when we do (like the
> >  last one) it covered 80% of the city (population about 300,000) so the
> >  chance that the cable would have worked are slim to none anyway I suspect.
> >
> >  Looks like UPS is only worth it for the surge protection (which I already
> >  have) - chances that it would allow on-going connection during any
> >  significant outage are probably slim and the money would be better spent on
> >  another hot-spot - except of course that we are in a virtual black-spot
> >  here ... can't win!
> >
> >  Thanks again to all.
> >
> >
> >
> >  Jon Paris