On 8/3/12 8:56 AM, William Herrin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Alain Hebert <aheb...@pubnix.net> wrote: >> Yes the easier way to do it is have your subnet routed to someone that >> is willing to colo your router, or provide your with something like NHRP, >> and use a 87x on your brand new unnamed Cable/DSL provider to create a NHRP >> tunnel for it. >> >> We have many customers which required that kind of tunnel to bypass some >> belligerent TelCo. >> >> But if you're going to drop your T1 for Cable/DSL get 2 of them using >> different technology and from different provider (aka 1 Cable and 1 DSL =D). > > I'm doing this. Works well most of the time. A couple months ago we > had major storm related outages in the area that persisted a couple of > days. Internet service on both lines dropped out after 12 hours. It > seems the telcos and cable companies don't consider the commodity > Internet part of their equipment to be something which needs > electricity during an extended grid outage. Cox. Verizon. I'm looking > at you. >
Most don't, and for the price being paid on commodity connections I feel indifferent about it. The central plant days are mostly gone; there's fiber huts everywhere and not enough trucks/manpower (in my area a lineman sits in his truck and reads a book while tethered to the power kiosk) to run them all if the outage is too widespread for too long. ~Seth
