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It is comcast, isn't it. I feel your pain, phone out all day at office.
Yeah Comcast can be great and suck all at the same time.

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Every business reliant on the internet should have a plan B. All you can eat wireless is usually your best bet. It will likely be slower than a land line, but at least your not completely down.
Just learned that lesson the hard way.

Had a horrible lightning storm come through here. Knocked out power and internet.

Sent everyone home since it was 2PM and FP& L said no power until 7 PM at earliest.

Came in next morning to power and no internet. Seems my router took a hit right through the surge protector.

Thankfully I had a backup in a box on a shelf. Took me about an hour to get it fired up and comcast to activate it remotely.

Since then I have decided to get a cellular wifi hot spot to use in case this happens again, I lean heavy on the internet. If it goes down we are down.

When I lost power and internet last time, I packed up my server (I have my own cloud server) and took it home, so I could finish my work there. I had power and internet there, 2 miles away.
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