05/24/2026
We'd like to thank everyone for putting up with various outages the last week or two while PG&E played games with the power grid.
Almost all of our major tower sites, and a bunch of the smaller sites have battery backup systems ( around 30 of our towers ) that can provide varying run time on battery. Plus our fiber feed locations are all battery backed up.
For shorter duration outages, we're fine on battery, but as they get longer we have to stage generators at the towers to charge the systems back up. That's when we start the whack-a-mole game of juggling where to place generators to keep ahead of the battery depletion.
We don't always get it right. Sometimes towers have had load added since the last power system audit and things fail sooner than expected. But after each failure of a system, we take notes and schedule upgrades and improvements to make the next time smoother.
Stream IT Networks does not do a lot of advertising, for 13+ years we've relied on our good people to spread the word. Thank you so much for that. We will never be a massive ISP. But that's fine, what we do have is that local connection you'll never get from a big ISP. And we do this all while still finding time for family, friends, and the things that matter most in life.
Thank you again.
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