Ya with 10 days left he would need 6800 VPPs a day which is obv doable for him but if he wanted to finish with 1 day left it would take 7600 VPPs a day or so.
im a little nervous for you. god forbid an internet problem, or some other catastrophe. does any carrier offer an aircard on a free trial basis? even if you had to pay for one month's service, i think that would be $50 insurance well spent. another possibility would be to pack up your system and take it to some place that had working internet. not ideal, but better than losing. i currently use a desktop system in a mobile environment, so not too big a deal.
ya, power outage too. you could buy a generator on a days notice tho, so all you would need is an aircard or sat internet then.
obv, these are all extreme cases, and have very small chance of occurring...would maybe think of a plan just in case, while falling asleep or something.