Having needed to evacuate 4 times for floods & 2 times for bushfires I radically changed my IT
So now all computers run off external SSD's with an external HD as data back up
Thus evacuations is nothing more than putting 6 drives into a bag
Australia has the worst most expensive internet on the entire planet so backing up onto any "cloud" server is a fools errand as it gobbles up data allowences very quickly and excess data costs are astronomical
Most ISP BS with "unlimited data" which is true, but what they do not say is over X Gb your connection speed gets throttled and some will choke it back as far as 128 Kb/s
Then there is "peak hours " which for some is 6am to 2am ie 20 hours of peak & 4 hour of off peak
Most ISP sell X Gb but that X GB/m is A Gb of peak & B Gb of off peak
So a 100 Gb/ m can have as little as 10Gb of peak hour use & 90Gb of off peak .
The NBN was supposed to deliver 10Gb/S connections to the entire country but in reality less than 5 % of the country can actually get anything over 20Mb/s regardless of what bandwith your pay for .
We were supposed to get fibre to the door so it would be a do it once & forget about it for the next 100 years but like climate pollution it became a political left vs right proposal so when the right got in they sabotaged the system so only the well healed got fibre connections , 30% of the remaining got the modem racks moved from the phone exchanges to a curb side box that needs 240 V power supply to work, suffers badly from RF interference and is totally unreliable when needed most like in floods & bushfires .
The remaining 60% got HF cable ( using the old cable TV network ) or satalite which would be fine if there was more than 5 to connect to & you have a bank balance like Elon Must to pay for it .
I consider myself lucky when I get any better than 2 Mb/s connection and that connection remains for any better than an hour
Apart from lawnmowers, Australians are the most stupid people on the planet .
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