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How much of your renewable and home setup would still work if the internet went down?

 
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04/11/2026 3:08 pm  

Posted by: @etchedpixels
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Some of that depends on the provider. I'd trust the hardware from folks like A&A or Zen for example for most uses as they tend to use good quality products - eg Zen use Fritzbox stuff. You pretty much can't replace them with most low end internet providers because you immediately get dropped into

"Our line is being unreliable"

"Our diagnostics can't see your equipment"

"I changed it"

"Then its your problem"

and also you now own maintaining the router and doing upgrades in a hurry sometimes whereas the ISP used to manage it.

Having a box between the ISP and your home stuff is a good practice, typically with anything that you don't trust on the ISP side or a separate ethernet so it so it can't get at your house either.

Yes and no.

The key in my opinion is that for many people the ISP-provided router is being asked to do an awful lot. Not only is it supposed to be a router, it's also being called in wifi, DNS, DHCP, firewall and perhaps VOIP duties as well, all of which can at times be quite resource intensive. It's not exactly uncommon for a household to be used to losing the Internet connection every week or two and needing to switch the router off and on again. The more one can reduce the workload on the router the more reliable it will be.

I understand what you mean about some ISPs trying to wash their hands of an issue if the box isn't within their control and for those ISPs there's a lot to be said for leaving it in place doing just routing duties. However, in that case I'd be questioning whether that ISP is the right partner for me in the first place for what is now quite an integral home amenity.

I don't think or suggest there's one right answer for everyone. I do stand by my point, though, that if your home would have trouble living with an Internet connection outage then you probably ought to take as much of a look at the quality and reliability of your router and line as you do with the quality and reliability of the smart kit you're relying on to use that router and line. Doesn't mean it has to be changed, but does mean you should actively assess it.

 


105 m2 bungalow in South East England
Mitsubishi Ecodan 8.5 kW air source heat pump
18 x 360W solar panels
1 x 6 kW GroWatt battery and SPH5000 inverter
1 x Myenergi Zappi
1 x VW ID3
Raised beds for home-grown veg and chickens for eggs

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