said by train_wreck:wanting to see what the general experience is on your cable service staying up during power outages. we just had a ~30 minute power outage here, that was preceded by a few 10-15 second cuts a few minutes beforehand. all my network equipment is on a battery backup, and it worked - everything here stayed on. but during each outage, we immediately lost service. at the end of the 30 minute one, internet service was restored right when the power came back on, and things are back to normal now.
The last time I had an extended power outage (during Superstorm Sandy), my cable services continued to work for about 2 hours before they failed.
said by train_wreck:from my reading recently, i thought a lot of the pole equipment & what not were supposed to have battery backups in them? so that at least service would stay on for a few minutes or so?
There have been some previous (recent) threads that have also discussed this:
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Storm Comng - What Backup DOes CC Have for Voice?»
[Connectivity] lose power, lose service?»
[CDV] Connectivity during power outage....