Redundancy
At Frazier Mountain Internet, we know staying connected matters—especially when the weather turns or disaster strikes. That’s why we’ve built our network to keep running through power outages, snowstorms, and even certain upstream Internet issues.
Power Backup
Our core network is supported by solar, battery, and generator systems. Both of our fiber uplinks—Frazier Park and Pine Mountain Club—have backup power. Our Tecuya Mountain backbone runs off-grid, and most of our access points have solar and/or battery support.
We’re not done. We're adding or upgrading solar and battery at key sites, including the PMC RV Lot towers. We’re also working on better solar monitoring so we can fine-tune performance and stay ahead of problems.
Equipment Redundancy
We keep spare units on hand and backups of all router configs. That includes key infrastructure and customer equipment—radios, routers, the whole stack. For some gear, like our primary border routers, we keep a warm spare ready to go within minutes.
Weather Resistance
Some high-capacity wireless links are more sensitive to weather than others. When needed, we fail over—manually or automatically—to more resilient radios. We're in the process of making all of that automatic so failovers happen without any hiccups during storms.
Internet Failover
We have two fiber uplinks—both using AT&T carrier fiber—on opposite ends of the mountain. The lines run mostly underground, but they’re not invincible.
A couple summers back, fiber between Frazier Park and PMC went down. Because of our design, the PMC Clubhouse stayed online—we rerouted traffic wirelessly through Tecuya and out through our Frazier Park uplink.
Still, as some of you saw last night, if the break happens before our Frazier Park uplink, it can knock out service. In this case, the fiber break was on a long run from Mettler to South Bakersfield, caused by a third-party provider’s mistake
We’re working on solving for that type of failure. The fix involves building a third wireless uplink to Bakersfield from the Linden tank in PMC. That means leasing space, deploying high-end gear, and hardening our backbone to handle it.
It won’t happen overnight—but every upgrade, backup, and failover we put in place moves us closer to one goal: making Frazier Mountain Internet the most reliable provider in these mountains, no matter the conditions.