On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 03:05:12 +0000, Jim Harris wrote:
>Steve,
>
>How true you are!
>
>Living in the northeast (Ma) our power does funky things on occasion too
>- and yes I have UPS's on them. This protects me from glitches, line
>transfers and short term outages. However, when a 'noreaster comes
>barreling thru - with 50+ knot winds, and a 300+ year old oak tree keels
>over taking down wires, poles, cars, etc... a UPS doesn't do much.
>(grin!)
>
>I've acutally taken it down (for experimental purposes - to attach
>something else to the cable modem - or to re-arrange the wiring and
>layout of my lab) - more often than that. Eventually, I am hoping to
>get things settled down, put the STN box up on a shelf, attach a
>deep-cycle marine battery to the UPS, and let the good times roll.
>
>Bottom line. I've taken it down manually because I -wanted- to, I have
>NEVER had to take it down because I -needed- to, and it has -never-
>"crapped-out" on me.
>
>Prior to the STN box, I had a beast motherboard, tons of memory, fast
>processor, etc. box running NT4 Server with IIS-2 as my proxy/gateway,
>and I needed to shutdown and reboot the box about once ever few weeks or
>so - because it got "fussy" and would stop connecting. (it got to the
>point that I was rebooting the machine weekly just to prevent this. It
>got old fast...)
>
>With the STN box, it just works and works and works.
>
Amen to that, my STN box lives in a closet with a hub, modem and UPS,
the uptime on it is somewhat amazing.
I think it probably has cobwebs inside - afraid to look!
Only when I need to reconfigure it comes down.
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