Sick of internet outages? How I easily set up a backup connection in my home office

Indie Studios LLC/Getty Images I've been a network administrator and work from home, so I should have known better. But there I was -- working my rump off on deadline -- when my AT&T Internet Fiber connection went down. That was the end of my work for the day. The next day, it was back on again and then down again. The day after that, it returned and stayed on… until the next day. Enough already! Also: How I upgraded to Wi-Fi 7 home internet with the easiest router setup yet When you depend on the internet for your small office/home office -- aka SOHO -- work, you can't afford this kind of downtime. Can anyone really? I understood this in the early days of home internet, so I had a modem backup to my 128 kilobit per second (Kbps) ISDN and later my fractional T1 frame-relay 384 Kbps internet connection. Back then, I knew darn well my internet connection could flake out on me at any time. Over the last few years, though, I got lazy. Sure, my cable and fiber connections would fail occ ... Read full article.