Re: Reliability of Networking Hardware?

w_tom wrote:
Duane Arnold wrote:

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. :)


And so we agree on the primary function of a plug-in UPS. To protect
data from blackouts and extreme brownouts. 'Cleaning' of power
typically does not exist AND is made irrelevant by circuits already
inside the computer. Electronics being so robust that a computer grade
UPSes can output such 'dirty' power (ie 200 volt square waves and 270
volt spikes) and not harm a computer.

I don't have a problem using one and it stopped the problems of the lock-ups and reboots of the router I was having when I put the UPS in place is the bottom line.

The purpose of a plug-in UPS: "I got a few minutes to save my work.
:)" The protection of data.


That and what the UPS did to prevent the problems I was having with the router. You'll take note that I said nothing about a *computer* in the problems I was having with the router.

The UPS is doing its job with providing the protection that I need and if a benefits of using one is that it also gives me the time to save data at a critical time of power loss, then that is good too.

Duane :)



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