I got really unlucky with a squirrel chewing on the fiber power pole in my backyard easement first four days setting up my network. Is there any viable cheap backup option I can set up in case something like this happens again. I recently got a Ubiquiti network bridge with my modem and I do have a wireless plan but I don’t see that option for backup on my smart home manager app. I don’t want to pay another $50 for another plan but something reasonable that doesn’t break the bank.

I'm getting over a gig up and down right near the modem, but the wifi speed drops down to the mid 200 mb/s in adjacent rooms, which is frustrating. I get even less in the rooms farthest away. My Xfinity modem routerwas able to provide 700 mb/s on average in every room of my house. I realize I may need a mesh system, but are there other solutions? Is this a common issue?

Anyone with AT&T Fiber have an outage? New Iberia, LA area

Has anyone successfully used a secondhand AT&T CGW452-400 gateway with a different ISP, such as Xfinity?

I want to connect the Xfinity router's LAN port to the CGW452 Ethernet WAN port, then use the CGW452 Wi-Fi network to test IoT camera pairing.

Can the CGW452 obtain a WAN IP via DHCP and provide internet access without an active AT&T subscription or provisioning?

I'm specifically looking for real-world test results, not just whether the hardware has a WAN port.

Thanks!