We tested how our new whole house battery backup works with our Sonic fiber networking equipment by switching off access to the grid and it works - sorta. Since it can take a few seconds for the battery to take over, our fiber equipment goes down. After the battery switches on, the ONT boots back up within a minute or so. Meanwhile, the router is patiently looking for the signal from the ONT which it soon finds and our broadband is up and running. However, the ATA re-boots immediately after the power returns and before the router is back up so, of course, it doesn't find a signal and just quits. To get the ATA back, I have to unplug the power for a few seconds.
The documentation for the ATA states that it periodically "registers with our network on an hourly basis". Based on this declaration, all I have to do after a power outage is wait up to one hour for the ATA to re-register, ie. no unplug-replug. Is this true? It sure would be nice to not have to do that manual intervention.
The documentation for the ATA states that it periodically "registers with our network on an hourly basis". Based on this declaration, all I have to do after a power outage is wait up to one hour for the ATA to re-register, ie. no unplug-replug. Is this true? It sure would be nice to not have to do that manual intervention.