for close to a month during super storm Sandy. The line between what we call civilization and primitive "radio" is fairly thin and lacking in redundancy. Often I walk into stores and restaurants and the manager comes up to customers and says "Our internet is down--we cant take credit cards--the repair person is on the way" I get this at Government offices also when they have to enter data. I have mostly new tech stuff but lets face it--we like sailing because its not.