I was looking at a thread about how many devices people have connected to their WiFi and got to wondering. Firstly how reliable are your internet connections ie how often do they go down and generally how long for? Secondly what is the impact on your life if your internet at home fails. Are the devices that are connected to your WiFi important or are they trivial distractions you can easily live without and are they still working fine if there's no internet connection?
Where I am internet reliability isn't great we have maybe an outage every few months and usually it's for a day, sometimes more. The most inconvenient thing in my life is lack of banking login which i only access using a laptop at home. It's a relatively minor inconvenience because I just hotspot with my phone and use mobile data instead. We don't have any IoT devices, no smart home gadgets and our TV works with an old fashioned roof antenna and coax connection as well as an offline PC next to it that's set up as a media server with 10TB storage so even that still works as normal. I guess the kids are affected more with no games and no social media but I'm not losing sleep.
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Where I am internet reliability isn't great we have maybe an outage every few months and usually it's for a day, sometimes more. The most inconvenient thing in my life is lack of banking login which i only access using a laptop at home. It's a relatively minor inconvenience because I just hotspot with my phone and use mobile data instead. We don't have any IoT devices, no smart home gadgets and our TV works with an old fashioned roof antenna and coax connection as well as an offline PC next to it that's set up as a media server with 10TB storage so even that still works as normal. I guess the kids are affected more with no games and no social media but I'm not losing sleep.
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