Remote from Guwahati: two ISPs, one UPS I talk to like family, and what a flood does to fibre
I write Django for a startup in Berlin, from Guwahati. The Brahmaputra view from my window is lovely. The broadband is not. After three years, here is my setup and what it has survived. Medium length, because my UPS only gives me so much time. The connections Primary: local fibre, 100 Mbps on paper, 60 to 80 in reality, very stable when it works. Backup: a 5G fixed wireless box from a different operator (Jio…
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