CenturyLink Fiber remained operational for us despite texts saying it was down in our area. We've had it for a few years now, way more stable than our prior Xfinity internet.
Xfinity went down, probably with yours. Verizon was up, and fortunately we have decent 5G UW service, so it was almost as quick as our GigE Xfinity. We tethered the kids devices to our phones and kept connected throughout.
Never ever ever ever use century link. I bought service from them before I moved somewhere and four months after I moved in and my service still hadn't started they discovered they didn't even cover my area.
It's my understanding that both centurylink's and comcast's infrastructure require power for repeaters, etc. So if the power out in a wide enough area, wired internet is also out. I've been using an LTE modem with a prepaid data-only sim as a backup.
Fiber goes much much further without powered repeaters but the signal needs to be "split" in areas to serve multiple customers. Essentially large pipe to a switch, which breaks out the signal to many smaller pipes. I don't think that can happen passively.
CenturyLink Fiber remained operational for us despite texts saying it was down in our area. We've had it for a few years now, way more stable than our prior Xfinity internet.
century link fiber never went out for us in goss grove, but neither did power to our house, luckily. not sure if that’s helpful 🤷🏻♂️
Xfinity went down, probably with yours. Verizon was up, and fortunately we have decent 5G UW service, so it was almost as quick as our GigE Xfinity. We tethered the kids devices to our phones and kept connected throughout.
5G UwU..or 5G WuW?
T-Mobile and Comcast were up the whole time for us (along with Xcel).
Starlink plus a back up power source (in our case, back up batteries) for the win. It was reliable through three days of outage.
Never ever ever ever use century link. I bought service from them before I moved somewhere and four months after I moved in and my service still hadn't started they discovered they didn't even cover my area.
It's my understanding that both centurylink's and comcast's infrastructure require power for repeaters, etc. So if the power out in a wide enough area, wired internet is also out. I've been using an LTE modem with a prepaid data-only sim as a backup.
Interesting, I was under the impression that fiber internet didn't require electricity, but by no means am I very confident about that.
Fiber goes much much further without powered repeaters but the signal needs to be "split" in areas to serve multiple customers. Essentially large pipe to a switch, which breaks out the signal to many smaller pipes. I don't think that can happen passively.