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If a power outage is localized to a block or two, a UPS could keep your local network alive and connected.

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Dec 30 '11, 12:28

But as the outage snowballs, the routes your data flows over gradually lose power and go dark.

At that point, you'd have to jack into the net using wicked hard tech juju (lasers, satellites, maaaybe dial up if you're really lucky.)

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how long are those batts supposed to last? hours? days? -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 30, 13:01
the probem is that the cheapest parts of the grid are not UPS'ed. The servers may run but you won't get to them. -- nm - marcel Dec 30, 12:33

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If a power outage is localized to a block or two, a UPS could keep your local network alive and connected.

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