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I'm confused, 50W is not a lot of electricity for an outlet. Why would you need batteries?
Battery backups for when the power goes out. There's a high correlation to the power going out to the needs of being able to communicate. If your main modes of communication go down during an emergency things can get pretty bad.
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I'd take YOUR deal in a heartbeat. I pay $110/month for 75Mbps down / 10Mbps up and 300GB data. They also constantly harass me with upsells and raise prices 10% per year.
I currently live in Kazakhstan (Aktobe) and I pay 6000 KZT ($14) for 200 Mb/s symmetrical over fiber, no setup cost. I could get 500 Mb/s for 8000 KZT, but don't really feel any need for it. It always puzzled me why internet in the US is so expensive. I heard the argument that the sheer size of the US makes the infrastructure expensive, but Kazakhstan is even "bigger" per capita, and not exactly known for being an "a…
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Cat5 and cat5e are different though. Cat5 struggles with 1gbps.
The differences are minimal. There is a good article on this topic: https://www.flukenetworks.com/knowledge-base/application-or-...
P.S. - a lot of your recent comments are showing as dead, might want to email HN mods and see what’s up.
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Battery backups for when the power goes out. There's a high correlation to the power going out to the needs of being able to communicate. If your main modes of communication go down during an emergency things can get pretty bad.
For backbone infrastructure yeah. But most people don’t have their home router on a battery backup. Unless you are talking about backbone stuff?
This goes back to the idea that POTS usually had its own power service, so when the power goes out the phones would often still be working. When things changed over to fiber and VoIP, similar availability requirements were being applied. As mentioned I'm not sure if this is still the case, I haven't bundled phone service with internet in well over a decade.
Ultimately though of course I would put at least core network things on a UPS (ONT, router, PoE switch for APs) as if the power goes out I'd want to be able to see WTF is going on. If its a big enough event to knock the power out for a little while there's a decent chance it could also lead to lots of people stressing cell networks, so you might not want to rely on that. For those core things I have on a UPS, a small-ish gel cell battery would operate them for a bit under 4 hours. I live in an area prone to both tornadoes and remnants of hurricanes though, so I'm in semi-disaster-prone area.
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The differences are minimal. There is a good article on this topic: https://www.flukenetworks.com/knowledge-base/application-or-...
The differences, while minimal, do make a big difference in certain environments. Long cable lengths (>70m) is the obvious one that might apply in a home environment theoretically. The more common case where it makes a difference is in very high density cable trays or other places where you have a lot of potential interference, which generally doesn’t apply as much in a home. P.S. - a lot of your recent comments are…
So $843.60/yr ($70.3/mo) + a 1-time $361.54 fee? I'd take that deal in a heartbeat. I pay a little over $100 for 1Gbps symmetrical plus a static IP.
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The differences, while minimal, do make a big difference in certain environments. Long cable lengths (>70m) is the obvious one that might apply in a home environment theoretically. The more common case where it makes a difference is in very high density cable trays or other places where you have a lot of potential interference, which generally doesn’t apply as much in a home. P.S. - a lot of your recent comments are…
A lot of the difference is in things like keystone jacks and patch panels, as this is where far end crosstalk is most likely.