Hello!
I wanted to create this post to see if I can get an answer, as google seems to give mixed results. This winter, I was thinking of getting a small generator incase our power goes out. We live in a rural area, so I have propane for heat, but was more worried about keeping devices charged and some lights.
I was curious if we had a power outage, if I powered my modem- would I still be able to have internet access? We have Xfinity but I wasn’t sure if there is a total power outage, if the internet would go down either until the local system is brought back up or if it had batteries/self generators so the network stays up during an outage.
In my neighborhood if power goes so does Internet, but not Visa versa. This is because the equipment that my cable company uses needs power. In fact, on my property the power/telephone pole have a power meter on it that is for charging my local cable company. I know because I asked.
We use a TiVo DVR as well a local Plex server so when power or Internet goes out we have content.