Well, a UPS *is* a battery right? So you are just choosing a different kind. Personally, I would think that running the network gear off a large UPS would be more cost-effective, but who knows.
What is probably killing you is that PC.. -- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ Edmund Cramp wrote: > This storm got me thinking - it looks like the phone system (mostly) stayed > up ... at least until the CO batteries and generators died. But when we lost > AC power at home my UPS running the DSL modem, wifi and firewall started to > complain after half an hour... I disconnected the PC running the firewall > (Pfsense) and wifi and stayed on the DSL modem with my laptop via a wire for > another hour before the UPS finally died. > > So what I need I think is a 12V battery and a setup that runs the modem, > firewall, wifi and switch all directly off 12V - this has got to be a better > solution than buying a bigger UPS. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -- > This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. > Click here to report this message as spam. > http://esva.puryear-it.com/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id= > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
