Tony and all, Here in Tampa Bay, Florida, area we have a number of cable providers that offer cable, internet, phone, etc. on one cable.
I have Verizon FIOS which is a fiber optics to the home and I subscribe to cable TV, internet at 3 Mb and phone. The phone is high, but the others are competive with others. When home power is lost the only thing working is the phone and on a battery. The battery is good for about 4 hours. No cable TV or internet even though you might have gen/battery power for computer. Just the way it is done. For New Orleans after Katrina it would not be a good test to compare DSL or any other serice in normal operation as we all know. For a Katrina one can expect most all services to be down except the sat stuff like Direct TV or other sat services we now have with our EOCs. Unless you have this sat service you will probably be down. My Verizon I think is in Texas with some type of connection servers here. 73, ron, n9ee/r
