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by walrus01 2146 days ago
From an ISP perspective this seems like the sort of company that orders one $250 a month business DIA circuit (at a price point where there is no ISP ROI for building a true ring topology to feed a stub customer) and has no backup circuit. Then the inevitable happens like a dump truck 2km away with a raised dump driving through aerial fiber and causing an 18 hour outage.

Some circuits might average 5 to 7 nines of uptime over a year, but the next year is dump truck time... You can never truly be certain.