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Redundant Internet

My power went out last night for about 5 hours. Despite my network hardware being on a UPS, the Internet service went out anyway. Seems they use the same power feed my house does. When the power came back on late last night the Internet did not.

This used to be routine, then they fixed it, now we are back to unreliable.

As a result I’m investing in an inexpensive edge router and getting TMobile home internet as a fallback. The long term reviews for Tmobile home Internet were mixed. At first users loved it, then after a couple of months the performance seems to have deteriorated significantly. Hopefully it is now better an with a little luck I won’t have both go out at once.

erik_squires

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fredrik222
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@erik_squires  unless Tmobile has the absolute best coverage where you are at, I wouldn’t go with them. They are very aggressive in their throttling when they think you have used too much. Granted, all carriers throttle, but I have used AT&T, Verizon and TMobile for this for various applications over the years, and with AT&T have been able to watch entire F1 races without throttling, that has not been possible on both Verizon and T-Mobile, with Tmobile being their worst.

also, you can configure it to automatically failover, you may want to look at a SD-WAN device for ease of use.

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