It is nice for updating a steam library, or downloading a huge file. Other than that, 1Gig is pretty much useless for me.

Dang, my entire house (including my lab) uses about 1100 kWh a MONTH. You have serious consumption going on.

every kernel update, each host gets the boot. So uptime is rarely over a month.

I recently had a 30 min power outage. Internet stayed up and working throughout. I have Tripplite 1500VA ups that has a displayed/load calculated 82 min run time. I only put the most critical things on UPS.