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Old 09-18-2020, 06:00 AM
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If you’re a snowbird, don’t you need Internet working continuously at both homes? If you don’t have the Internet continuously working, how can you monitor and control your HVAC system? How can your alarm system communicate? How can your cameras communicate? What about your remote control for the lawn irrigation? If you have a pool, there’s remote control and monitoring for that too.

If I had two homes, separated by over a thousand miles, I would want to be able to monitor and control things remotely, instead of being in the dark, assuming that there are no problems at the home that’s over a thousand miles away, and unoccupied.

I can understand shutting off cable or satellite TV when you’re gone for months, but you need the Internet connection for the remote monitoring and remote control.