Hello!
I wanted to create this post to see if I can get an answer, as google seems to give mixed results. This winter, I was thinking of getting a small generator incase our power goes out. We live in a rural area, so I have propane for heat, but was more worried about keeping devices charged and some lights.
I was curious if we had a power outage, if I powered my modem- would I still be able to have internet access? We have Xfinity but I wasn’t sure if there is a total power outage, if the internet would go down either until the local system is brought back up or if it had batteries/self generators so the network stays up during an outage.
Maybe.
I have UPSs on my home gear and a generator, but out of the last 2 places I’ve lived…one had about 4 hours of battery backup on the ISP equipment along the roads, the other seems to have zero backup power (and sent out an email point blank saying if power is out in the area expect internet to go out even if your house still has power)