Re: Reliability of Networking Hardware?

Power switching of "air conditioner, refrigerator, furnace etc" do
not create electronics damage. They do not create destructive
transients. For if they did, then we were all trooping daily to
hardware stores to replace smoke detectors, clock radios, bathroom and
kitchen GFCIs, dimmer switches, etc. A computer grade UPS only
protects data from extreme blackouts and brownouts. Its power is
sometimes so 'dirty' as to even be a threat to small electric motors
and power strip protectors. Electronics being so robust that this
'dirty' UPS electricity is not a threat.

Meanwhile apartment dwellers must kludge a solution to transient
protection, or buy and get the landlord to install an effective 'whole
house' type protector. A kludge solution: find the grounded wall
receptacle closest to breaker box. Shorten a power cord on a largest
joule power strip protector minimize the connection to earth. Hope
the breaker box has some kind of earthing connection. Move computer on
that circuit as far as possible from breaker box. It is not good
protection, but at least it is something. Something that a plug-in UPS
does not even claim to provide.

Duane Arnold wrote:
Yeah, they maybe fresh but I don't see this doing much good for someone
living in an apartment or one doesn't have control of the house.

Myself, I am more interested in keeping the power clean and constant to
the router or FW appliance and other devices, which I had a lot of
problems with the router as household appliances switched on and off on
the line like the air conditioner, refrigerator, furnace etc. etc.
causing problems that the UPS corrected the problems and I never had
another peep out of the router.

Duane :)

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