Re: Cable Modems

I'm very late to the conversation but this is why I have a UPS. It will only keep my equipment up 5 - 10 minutes but it's long enough for me to save what I'm working on and gracefully shutdown the system.

I also have the cable modem and router on the UPS. This after doing some work on-line that was lost due to a power outage.

Rick

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Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Cable Modems

Jon, isn't graceful shutdown always a winning move? Just the nuisance factor
makes a UPS useful if you have a couple of power blip every year or so. imho



On 8/5/2013 12:53 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

Thanks for all the comments.

I had a feeling that there were probably repeaters etc. in the line that could

be impacted. We rarely get major outages and when we do (like the last one)
it covered 80% of the city (population about 300,000) so the chance that the
cable would have worked are slim to none anyway I suspect.

Looks like UPS is only worth it for the surge protection (which I already

have) - chances that it would allow on-going connection during any significant
outage are probably slim and the money would be better spent on another
hot-spot - except of course that we are in a virtual black-spot here ... can't
win!

Thanks again to all.



Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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