On 11/11/2010 12:00 PM, Phil M Perry wrote:
shutdown. Speaking of which, does your cable and/or FiOS stay up when
the power is down? DSL might have central battery backup, but cable
amplifiers appear to feed off the local grid. No point is keeping the
equipment running if it can't talk to the outside world.
Fios comes with a battery backup, it's a large battery mounted on the
wall of my garage, that powers the actual fiber modem. (not the router)
If I still had phone service, it would back that up as well. It's good
for a few hours.
I have gotten online using the gasoline generator to run the computer, a
network hub and the router. I had extension cords all over the house, it
was a mess but it worked.
Finally, do watch the Terms of Service. If you're running a light
server load, they may not even notice, but to run a business website
from home would arouse your ISP's suspicion. They have prohibitions on
servers connecting at residential rates for a good reason -- you're
sucking up the bandwidth without paying for it. With all the audio and
movie streaming (both legit and pirate) going on (not to mention
nightly Linux kernel downloads for some!), I wouldn't be surprised if
soon, every ISP starts charging for actual bandwidth used. It would be
the only fair thing to do. In such a case, they may not care if
someone hooks up a Web server, so long as the load isn't excessive.
They might stop offering "unlimited" plans, as they have already started
to do with cellphone data plans, but they won't ever fall back to a
point where they "charge for actual bandwidth" the whole business model
is one based on the average person using less than they are paying for.
Charging more to people they label as "hogs" will just mean they get
more money. (it wont be used to improve the service)
Besides, they should like me , I hit the network hard, and frequently,
but usually only late at night. I suspect Verizon's bigest loads are
prime time tv hours ( televeison, ondemand and netficks) Using lots of
bandwidth when the network load is low, doesn't cost them anything.
Bandwidth only really costs them anything, if they have to upgrade to
accommodate it.
what is needed is some way to have a dialog with the ISP:
"I have 3 GB I need to transfer, When would you like me to do that ?"
Because a lot of my data usage is scripted, I could easily control when
it happened.
I will say that I haven't had a single problem with Verizon fios. When I
was with Cablevision (optimum online) they banged me SEVERAL TIMES for
"uploading too much"
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--Russell
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