Re: Reliability of Networking Hardware?

w_tom wrote:
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.

I never said it did. What I said is that the router likes good clean power and not having that UPS in place caused problems with my router at the time in the condo. With one computer a Dell, it would lock-up at times on the keyboard with the power switching on or off with the air conditioner or furnace at times. And I know what's was doing it. It was a PITA to crawl back there and do the unplug and plug on the keyboard. That UPS stopped all problems I was having with the router -- all problems.


Meanwhile apartment dwellers must kludge a solution to transient
protection, or buy and get the landlord to install an effective 'whole
house' type protector.

It's not going to happen not in any neighborhood I came from or not in any of the high price ones I have lived in to date. It's wishful thinking.

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.

Come on man, some may go through all that but most will not do it.

My advise is just go get a UPS and be done with it.

And if the power drops and transformers blew out where I use to live at on a routine basis in the high price area, too much population in the area, that UPS comes in handy in that area as well. I got a few minutes to save my work. :)

This is the real world talking to you.

Duane :)



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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