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Power Loss but Still Online with Fiber Connection (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Interesting experience, this has happened twice now. When house looses power I am still online now that I have moved to Fiber.

It feels a bit eerie. My network and computers, TV, media center, etc are all on UPS so they just keep going. Things just get really quite which is interrupted by just the periodic beeps of the UPS systems.

Does anyone know why my new Fiber connection does this but my old system which was bonded DSL did not? I know back in the early days of DSL I could do this, but some where along the way it stopped being power outage resistant.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I've smelled the diesel fumes and heard the backup generators near my city's old telephone/internet central during a city blackout a bit over a decade ago, so at least those stay on during blackouts, but you'd think that various boxes along the way to the central might need power, right?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) Between you, the Optinal Network Terminal (ONT) and the central, Optical Network Line (ONL) there is only glass, fibers and prisms. It's all like an old school ethernet hub, or "thin ethernet" coaxial.

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