Well, that network replacement took an unexpected turn

I mentioned the other day that I finally replaced my temporary network. I mean, 14 months is temporary, right? Right?

Well, that setup didn't last long, and I don't know why. Something odd happened, and I'm now keeping an eye on things.

The other day, the power went out. A large power outage hit a large section of town, and my house was impacted. The outage lasted over nearly two hours, which is pretty unusual. Georgia Power doesn't often have outages that long. Even an outage of minutes in length is unusual, making the hour-plus outage very unusual.

The outage of that length also meant that all of my network shut down. While this seems obvious, the fact is that it is rare that my network shuts down. I have uninterruptible power supplies on my network, meaning the occasional power blip, though rare, does not impact my network at all. The long outage meant that the battery backup died and my network went down.

When it comes back up, there should be no issue. However, something happened, and I don't know what that something was. The network came back on, but the network didn't come back up.

I ended up having to do a factory reset of the network, meaning I had to set it all up again.

I used to have the older version of the Google network devices, and never had such a problem. This, however, was a problem, and it took me a couple of hours of troubleshooting before I was able to determine that a full factory reset was the solution.

That isn't good, and I don't want that to be the thing I have to do a lot. Or a little. I don't want to do it at all.

My Streaming Life depends on a reliable network. Everyone's does. I really don't want to have to go through that again.