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.
It depends on your provider, out the backwoods of Missouri. They do not have uninterruptible power on the noes feeding the homes, so when the power goes out the node which would transfer your traffic to the Internet, goes out as well, making a UPS pointless. That being said when I was in California in the backwoods of California, everything had either a UPS or a generator back up so as long as you had a UPS on your modem and your network equipment you had Internet Unless the cable that carried the Internet was damaged.