I'm a new Comcast Internet subscriber. Earlier this week comcast installed a xFinity Arris T862 router\modem.
Why does it need a battery? Sometimes, I'm not home for extened periods before leaving I unplug most everything. Can i remove the battery from the T862? Why waste energy charging it?
My old LinkSys I just removed the power cord at night and before traveling.
Yep, telephony modems have a battery back-up. If you don't have digital voice, you can just take it out. Frankly, as far as I can tell, the whole battery thing is just for marketing. If the power goes down, your cable will probably go down too and you would have to have a corded phone that draws its power from the phone line for it to work anyhow.
How about the strand (pole) mounted battery backups, the portable field generators that can be trucked in, and the emergency power backup generators at the headend ?
Yes, when I worked for Comcast we had a number of back up generators. The battery back-ups we had were only good for a few hours, so once in awhile we would roll the generators out. The generators got stolen all the time, despite being chained to the pole. That was awesome.
