Good luck to all those here who are going to be offline due to power/internet outages after this weekend. Hope to see you back here soon! Stay safe!
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No info after Helene was the absolute worst, so hoping we keep the towers up this time. And water.
Tomorrow morning will probably still be ok where I am, but then bets are off.
Today is lovely... 52 and sunny.
My internet redundancy plan is multiple 5G cell towers, by aiming a high gain satellite dish from the top of the mountain. The cell router is at the focal point on the dish. Solar powered with a plug in hybrid vehicle as a backup generator at the solar inputs.
@ai6yr A lot of people tend to forget that infrastructure requires power too. You hay have 100Kwh of battery storage, but the cable distribution node down the street has a cold deep cycle battery that only lasts 45minutes.
As a TIL:
Some of these equipment boxes have some form of generator inlet. This won't always work, since they depend on the repeater upstream to have power as well, but if you are close to the head-end, chances are you might be able to hack some power and get internet back.... at the cost of a generator.
