It's all good until the beaver takes it all down again..
That is expensive. Like my Spectrum cable and internet in Maine which costs more than 100 mbs of Verizon Fios around Boston. There is only one hard line internet and cable provider at the Maine location. People on Cape Cod get reamed because the only option is Comcast.I just looked up a plan on the dead network. So 100gb of full speed data, throttled thereafter, is $175/mth.
Interesting article that highlights just how dependent we (as a society) have become on a robust internet connectionAnd it's still out. Twelve hours later. Twenty million people and banks, businesses. Can't pay by card in many businesses, cash only. Love it. Filthy assholes..
Do you not have Sprint in your market? I ask in case you didn't know they are now the same company.I guess we are just going to remain have nots. T-Mobile is not available here.
Interesting product, but overkill for us. The cable modem and 5G cube are in the same room, but separated by about 25', the 5G cube just inside the window that is essentially line of sight to the cellular tower under a mile away. The cable modem is hooked up to the Eero mesh network with two repeaters, a setup that I'm quite satisfied with. We have a long, skinny house and the speeds in the back bedroom are still at 50+ Mb/sec; more than adequate for the surfing needs back there. My work computer requires a wired connection, and that CAT5 run is much shorter with the 5G cube than to the cable modem. For that reason alone, the 5G cube might wind up being the primary work connection rather than secondary, as the download speeds seem more than adequate.If you have two Internet connections, consider getting a router that can use both automatically. I have this Synology wifi router that has two uplink ports, and it works great:
Ya maybe but if the router fails... both are down?? It's been more than once I found myself hopping in the car to Office Depot to buy a new Wifi router in the middle of a work day.If you have two Internet connections, consider getting a router that can use both automatically. I have this Synology wifi router that has two uplink ports, and it works great:
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You can configure it to either 1) send traffic over one WAN port and failover if a link goes down, or 2) load balance and send traffic over both ports at all times, then failover if one goes down. Synology makes great products. It has many more setup options than a typical consumer router, but the admin interface is top-notch.
As long as one of your ISP connection options comes with it's own wireless access point a router failure (on the other or both) isn't a showstopper.
As is with two seperate Wifi networks my machines just automatically pop over to the other one if the internet on the first goes down..
Still seems like a solution looking for a problem. First round we set up everything with BOTH networks stored in the history. Whenever one drops, the device (any and all of them) just connect to the other one. Doesn't even drop my VPN or wifes going from one approved access point to the other.. Nothing manual about it..Automatically switching services is beneficial if you have numerous people and non-techy folks. Think small office or family trying to work and school from home during COVID!
That was also my situation and why I cancelled Spectrum initially. After week 3 and the 2nd Verizon 5G access point fail issue I logged back in to Spectrum to see that they were now offering the "new or returning customer rate" of $49/month for two years. So now I'm paying $75/month for BOTH.. for at least 2 years. FWIW, Verizon had been bombproof for over a month but had a 4 hour issue this week. .. while I was working.. So ya, still glad to have both.The Spectrum bill has been running about $120/month, with the internet component about $80. I haven't really watched any TV in years at this location, so I decided that the entire subscription could be terminated. I'll be returning the equipment to Spectrum tomorrow.
Seems reasonable for those needs. We've got two college students and two WFH geezers here. But, I'm the only one who's full time WFH. If it were just occasional and never required for more than an hour here and there a hotspot as a back up would be totally fine..As implied above, a bombproof internet connection is not critical at the condo. I have my iPhone (Verizon) if the T-Mobile gateway goes down. I could even hot spot it to the iMac. But internet silence wouldn't be such a bad thing- I've been neglecting my audio system lately. I'd be thinking along different lines if I were actually wanting to do work from the condo.