So I came home yesterday to my cable internet line lying on the ground in my driveway, detached from the pole but still attached to the house. I called Comcast to report and see how soon they could come out to fix it, they are saying today around 1pm EST. I was without internet all yesterday evening and this morning before coming to work, where, after logging into my account here it hit me I could have gone online on my phone yesterday and this morning.
Why do I even have a smartphone if I use it so little that I forgot I could sub it in for my PC?
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@kaidenshi Tip: there are 4G/5G fallback devices. We have one, and it allows our network to automatically fall back to 5G is the main internet fails. We use a prepaid SIM for it with a few GB on it, just enough to keep us going for a bit and cleanly finish anything we're doing.
If we're doing something important, and need more GB - we just add it.
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@thomholwerda I've thought about that off and on, especially since I have a couple of servers going I'd like to keep running, but it's not work related just hobby stuff so downtime is just an annoyance. I actually looked into one of those routers custom built for OpenBSD that used to be available from a company in Germany, they had a couple of models with a 4G modem slot. They went out of business, but I do have those HP thin clients lying around with extra mini-PCIe and M.2 ports inside...hmm...
Well now I have another project to explore! Thanks! :flan_hacker:
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