Interesting experience, this has happened twice now. When house looses power I am still online now that I have moved to Fiber.
It feels a bit eerie. My network and computers, TV, media center, etc are all on UPS so they just keep going. Things just get really quite which is interrupted by just the periodic beeps of the UPS systems.
Does anyone know why my new Fiber connection does this but my old system which was bonded DSL did not? I know back in the early days of DSL I could do this, but some where along the way it stopped being power outage resistant.
Same experience here. The fiber usually is served from a point farther away from your house than with copper, and doesn’t need a powered repeater somewhere near your house. So if the neighborhood looses power, the last active fiber repeater before your connection might be far enough away to not be affected by the outage.