Yeah and turn off cloud connected home video cameras. Video upload is horrible at that connection speed with 6 users.

That is a big nope.I’m a specialist at work and support everything.

I get calls with people with less than 30 having all sorts of issues working remote, single users, no smart home devices, no file transfers happening, only person in the house.

Since Covid, we can support 1500 people remotely. We have spent on new Cisco switches, and remote appliances and enough bandwidth to support everyone. Everyone with higher speed does not have an issue.

Also don’t be someone remote also connected on wifi. This does not help VPN one bit. especially with only an ISP provided router.

If you work from home with that connection speed, your ONLY course of action is to hope you have a local desktop at work on their gigabit network that does all the work, while you manipulate it remotely, which requires the minimum amount of connection.

IT blows my mind when people go home with their laptops, and work on huge excel documents full of macros, and need access to share drives to accomplish their goals.

What could take them 10 minutes here at work will be 2.5 hours remotely. Add another VPN user at home and a bunch of kids with various streaming/gaming needs and it’ll be horrible. Trust me.

Yes and no.
Yes, it would still be powered on, but it depends on how far the power outage reaches, and how much backup power xfinity has at their local site where your connection leads. IF they are not affected by the blackout, it’ll work as long as you can generate electricity, most likely.