On 1/12/22 2:37 PM, Ahmed elBornou wrote:
Do we know if there are common reasons why these power outages are on
the rise across different states and if this is expected to continue ?
Climate change. We're living it. That and PG&E is corrupt.
Mike
Ahmed
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 11:43 AM Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote:
On 1/12/22 11:25 AM, Fred Baker wrote:
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>> On Jan 12, 2022, at 10:37 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG
<nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:18 AM Andy Ringsmuth
<a...@andyring.com> wrote:
>> Given that most people barely even know what their home router
is, I suspect the percentage would be somewhere south of 1
percent. Outside of my home, I honestly cannot recall EVER seeing
someone’s home using a battery backup for their internet
infrastructure.
>>
>> Same here. The only people I've seen that have battery backups
for their home routers are fellow geeks. I even bought one and
shipped it to my ~70-year-old mother...and she just doesn't want
to install it. "Too complicated".
>>
>> I personally do, but of course I (and probably everyone on this
list) am by no means representative of the population at large in
this particular area.
>>
>> Same. My home office has 3 Cyberpower 2500 VA
double-conversion UPS units backed by Champion transfer switches.
Power goes out, and ~45 seconds later I'm running on generator power.
>> My local ISP runs out of power well before I do. Thankfully
there's Starlink.
>>
>> Short of an asteroid hitting my office, it's highly unlikely
I'll ever be offline. ;)
> In my case (California, home of SCE and PG&E), we have been
notified by our electrical grid operators that power can go down
at any time, for any reason, and any duration. I have just moved,
so I am speaking in a historical context and future plans, but we
have solar electricity as well and have a battery in the home that
in effect backs up part of the house. We don't back up the
Internet service, because frankly if power is down in the grid I'm
not sure my favorite router is all that important, in addition to
the considerations already mentioned. But power can and does go
down - even without asteroids.
We just installed a battery too, but it will probably only last ~1
day
and much less than that in winter. We're in the process of looking
at a
generator that interfaces directly with the inverter so that it
handles
the grid, the battery, the solar and the generator along with the
transfer switch. It's gone from being the occasional nuisance in the
winter to all year long these days. Our power outage over the
holidays
lasted 12 days. This isn't just a rural problem anymore in
California,
it's a pretty much everywhere problem now.
Mike
