Does 5G work during load shedding?

[123Eish]

Hi Everyone,

Does 5G work during load shedding? Basically asking if the 5G towers have backup power.

If it does what is the cheapest way to keep my 5G Outdoor modem running when the power goes out?

It uses a poe injector so those cheaper fibre router UPS/battery pack solutions commonly found on Takealot won't work.

I do not want to spend 5k plus for an inverter/battery setup when I only need the router running.

Thanks

 

[powermzii]

Hi Everyone,

Does 5G work during load shedding? Basically asking if the 5G towers have backup power.

If it does what is the cheapest way to keep my 5G Outdoor modem running when the power goes out?

It uses a poe injector so those cheaper fibre router UPS/battery pack solutions commonly found on Takealot won't work.

I do not want to spend 5k plus for an inverter/battery setup when I only need the router running.

Thanks

When i had it it continued working during loadshedding.

I plugged this into a standard mini UPS > https://www.geewiz.co.za/power-over-ethernet/4408-single-port-gigabit-poe-injector.html

 

[SolidState]

Hi Everyone,

Does 5G work during load shedding? Basically asking if the 5G towers have backup power.

If it does what is the cheapest way to keep my 5G Outdoor modem running when the power goes out?

It uses a poe injector so those cheaper fibre router UPS/battery pack solutions commonly found on Takealot won't work.

I do not want to spend 5k plus for an inverter/battery setup when I only need the router running.

Thanks

Think it is tower depended, when 2 of my friends were on RAIN, both had no signal during load shedding, were I still get my full signal, and due to most people not connecting to the tower during load shedding - my speeds during load shedding is superb, so my tower definitely has backup power.

 

[Gtx Gaming]

Yeah mine did not have backup, had to cancel.

Will sign up again later, now that I know 5g works here.

 

[Dretastic06]

Yeah mine did not have backup, had to cancel.

Will sign up again later, now that I know 5g works here.

a buddy in the area confirmed, that rain 5g stays up when its loadshedding

 

[XmanDZA]

I can confirm that it stays up in my area (Rain 5G).

 

[The_MAC]

Depends on the tower and the usage during a power cut.

If there are no batteries, then no, if there are batteries, then the duration it stays on will depend on it's power consumption i.e. amount of users

 

[123Eish]

Thanks for the replies.

I checked which cell ID the router is connecting to and then checked if that cell ID is still up when loadshedding occurs using my phone and searching for cell towers. The tower my 5G connects to seems to be on during load shedding.

Now I just need to find a way to power it.