I prefer having a 2nd wired connection as my backup. The satellite connection has some clear benefits, but it's still going to outer space. A DOCSIS failover won't suffer from rain fade or a something landing on the antenna.

If I've got a situation so bad it takes out both of my connections I've probably got bigger things to deal with than internet access.

The buried fiber getting cut by is really the only thing that kills the connection. Fiber can go for a long time without power from the local grid infrastructure. My cable provider has a mostly orthogonal failure mode (goes down like clockwork with the grid).

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forinti 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have a second fiber connection and found out recently that both fibers come along the same route and when a fire took out a utility pole, I lost both connections.

I then found out that all providers bar one (there are 5 or 6) come along the same street.

So if you are going to go with this option choose carefully your providers!

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daemonologist 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Five or six! My kingdom for one fiber provider.

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SV_BubbleTime 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This entirely.

“I like docsis”… cool, it turns to fiber 500ft after your house.

	▲	icedchai 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I dumped DOCSIS the moment fiber became available. With cable, I'd go through periods of 1% to 3% packet loss. It also affected the neighbors, so it wasn't my "old modem" as the tech once tried to claim. When it was at its worst, I saw my upstream bandwidth drop below 100kbits/sec due to all the TCP retransmissions. Eventually they admitted it was an "outside plant" issue and beyond the responsibility of the home techs. It took months to finally get it fixed. Who knew if it was actually fixed, or it was just a fluke, since the problems would come and go. Even when it worked, upstream was capped at 30 megabits/sec, which was pretty painful for large uploads. Fiber has none of these problems.
	▲	kotaKat 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Gotta love the new suckered generation of "Fiber-Powered With Asterisks Internet" being advertised by the cablecos. "Fiber powered and delivered to the home by HFC!"

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JimmyBiscuit 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It honestly has to be very strong rain for it to create connection issues. I dont know where you live but here in germany we have that maybe once or twice a year with our antenna.