I switched from cable internet to fiber and not only did I get faster speeds, I also ended up with a lower monthly bill. Another great thing about switching from cable to fiber is that you can try before you buy since you don’t have to cancel your cable plan outright to do so. I ...
I have Spectrum, and with the My Spectrum App, as long as I turn on alerts for outages in my account settings, I’ll be notified if my area is affected. If there’s an outage, technicians can often resolve them in a matter of hours. In the meantime, you’ll have to wait it out...
Some ISPs install enough backup batteries to get through power outages, but it’s not required of them to do so. 5G and fixed-wireless internet is the most power outage-resistant service Cell towers often have robust backup power. That means if you can power your gateway, the service is ...
The electricity usage patterns and behavior of people living in a household have at least as significant an impact on electricity consumption in kWh as the number of occupants — and often more. Modifying when and how your family uses electricity and encouraging energy-efficient behavior is one ...
What does a flywheel do? Photo: A typical modern flywheel doesn't even look like a wheel! It consists of a spinning carbon-fiber cylinder mounted inside a very sturdy container, which is designed to stop any high-speed fragments if the rotor should break. Flywheels like this have an ...
Managing stress effectively often requires a multifaceted approach, and natural supplements can play a significant role in this process. While no supplement acts as a magic solution, certain vitamins, minerals, and herbal extracts have shown promise in helping to alleviate stress and anxiety. Italian...
Lag occurs often across more than just networks. Here are five different kinds of latency and how they might affect users. Fiber optic latency FIber optic latency is the perceived time light takes to travel a specified distance through a fiber optic cable, measured in microseconds or nanoseconds...
When considering a direct-to-normal-cellular device, it would not be practical to have an LEO satellite network, even an extensive one, to replace existing 5G terrestrial-based cellular networks and the services these support today. This does not mean that LEO satellite cannot be of great ...
The term hygiene when it comes to cats does not only mean cleaning feces regularly, but it also means that the owners need to have certain accessories to support the cat’s hygiene. However, keeping up with the cat’s hygiene is not always an easy task, and it can get overwhelming at ...
However, if there are concurrent failures in redundant subsystems, there will be outages at the system level. We need to account for this in our availability calculations. Luckily most network failures are independent events. And where networks do have cascading outages, this is often the result...