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1. cube00 · 1790017251 · focus · HN ↗

   > When it went to flip into the backup, we discovered that the backup fiber had a break

   Pretty grim that a life critical system wasn't designed to report that the backup fibre was unserviceable until they attempted to switch over to it.

   I wonder how long it was down? Days, weeks, months?

   1. newhotelowner · 1790020475 · focus · HN ↗

      All these cable/internet service companies are incompetent as it gets.

      I am paying, $1000, $1800 & $1900 for the same service at 3 different location (20 mins from each other).

      Two locations, I also have old coax lines that are still active, but not paying for it.

      When I bought two businesses, I learned that they were paying for a dedicated fiber but using coax service.

      At one of the location, we had fiber, and paying for backup coax and wireless. But if you turn off fiber box, it wont fail over to either one.

      I wouldn't surprise it was down for weeks and no one bothered about it.

      1. Neywiny · 1790032752 · focus · HN ↗

         Any possibility of line of site wireless?

         1. tuvix · 1790040363 · focus · HN ↗

            Just got this at my apartment and it’s dirt cheap. Not the fastest internet on the market but more than enough

            1. Neywiny · 1790092859 · focus · HN ↗

               You mean like 4G/5G -> WiFi? That's not what I meant. I meant sharing the one connection with multiple buildings.

               I thought about what I believe is your way until <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;t-mobile-home-internet-was-great-until-my-service-died-and-the-company-couldnt-fix-it" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;t-mobile-home-internet-... and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;t-mobile-misleads-home-internet-customers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;t-mobile-misleads-home-int... .

               1. tuvix · 1790103827 · focus · HN ↗

                  Well I think it’s technically pretty similar to 5G, but it doesn’t use existing 5G towers. It’s this company in Denver that sets up receivers on top of certain buildings and distributes using a line of sight connection. What’s weird is that we plug our modem into the phone jack in the wall

                  Not my area of expertise though so I could be leaving out info

                  Edit: Starry is the company, I believe they were just purchased by Verizon

                  1. Neywiny · 1790110579 · focus · HN ↗

                     Oh then yeah actually it is what I meant. But basically you can just buy the hardware from ubiquiti to do it yourself. No monthly anything.

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