@prettygood@r000t Even rural-ass ISPs have backup power. Because of the way the 911 system is set up these days, it's almost federally mandated, and later built, newer towers will have the backup system included in the design.
@prettygood@r000t
When I say ''911 system'' I'm talking about modern phone systems often bundled with cable and internet, BTW. Most of them send phone voltages over the coax that the TV and internet come through.
Getting zapped by them sucks but sucks less than having to get the ladder back out and climb up there twice to turn it off, make the connection, and turn it back on.
@brimshae
You mean the VoIP systems? Usually the line voltage is provided by the EMTA (the modem) and a battery for that modem is mandated if the customer has VoIP service @prettygood
@r000t@prettygood
I'm talking about the company's equipment side. I've got some (now antiquated) infrastructure experience under my belt, including federal(military and non), and consumer commercial.
Also most times people “lose power” it’s only a momentary blip, it’s not like people are getting hour long blackouts every day usually their utility just sucks or something in the chain trips and resets
@prettygood@r000t He's not talking about power loss due to blown transformers or substations or downed power lines caused by a hurricane or whatever. I think r000t's point is that a momentary reboot caused by a surge/brownout limited to a streamer's house is something that is easily preventable with a UPS, without which the streamers must deal with the overhead of setting up a new stream after every reboot. If your livelihood come from streaming you should have a UPS if not an aggregated internet connection of wired plus 5G.
@marlin
The failover network... Ehh. I can easily expect Amouranth or Dr. Disrespect to install a consumer UPS. I can't really expect them to configure failover networking, which is even more complicated (and basically requires having all of your traffic come out somewhere else) if you want to have it so that even existing connections don't skip a beat.
Then again the former likely has legions of simps with the necessary skills of experience willing to do it for free. @prettygood
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