NwkEWR
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Re: Counting down the days...
Cheese, tell me that you are being facetious, please do tell me that, otherwise I may need to mention the name of a technological wonder that no one has ever heard of before, it goes by the acronym of UPS, and no, it has nothing to do with United Parcel Service.
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Cheese
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1 edit | said by NwkEWR  :Cheese, tell me that you are being facetious, please do tell me that, otherwise I may need to mention the name of a technological wonder that no one has ever heard of before, it goes by the acronym of UPS, and no, it has nothing to do with United Parcel Service. And tell me how long that UPS is going to run if any type of PC is plugged in? Not 10 hours! |
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nitzan
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| While we're comparing apples to oranges, how long would your PC last on your cable box's battery?
We're not talking about a PC here so it is irrelevant. We're talking about how long would your Analog Telephone Adapter, router, and cable/DSL modem run on a typical UPS. Answer: long enough for the power to come back. If you need your cable co to supply the battery for you that's up to you, but you can most definitely easily do-it-yourself.
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Cheese
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| said by nitzan :While we're comparing apples to oranges, how long would your PC last on your cable box's battery? We're not talking about a PC here so it is irrelevant. We're talking about how long would your Analog Telephone Adapter, router, and cable/DSL modem run on a typical UPS. Answer: long enough for the power to come back. If you need your cable co to supply the battery for you that's up to you, but you can most definitely easily do-it-yourself. My PC would last probably less than 10 min on my 1500 UPS with my hardware and no, I don't need the cable company to supply anything, and the average user isn't going to just hook up those items to a UPS, they will also have a PC hooked up. |
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s13
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said by Cheese :And tell me how long that UPS is going to run if any type of PC is plugged in? Not 10 hours! That's why you run it off a dedicated UPS. You can pick up a small UPS for under $40 that will run a cable modem for hours... cheap security. |
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s13
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said by nitzan :If you need your cable co to supply the battery for you that's up to you, but you can most definitely easily do-it-yourself. Don't know if it's just for business or what, but Cablevision supplied us with a purpose-built (proprietary cable) APC UPS when we switched to Optimum Voice a few months ago. Don't know the specs but the installer said it should last 15 hours in an outage... while I doubt that number, I'm sure it'll be good for several hours. |
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Cheese
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said by s13 :said by Cheese :And tell me how long that UPS is going to run if any type of PC is plugged in? Not 10 hours! That's why you run it off a dedicated UPS. You can pick up a small UPS for under $40 that will run a cable modem for hours... cheap security. Again, the AVERAGE user is not going to purchase a UPS strictly for using it to power a phone adapter/cable modem. |
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s13
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| said by Cheese :Again, the AVERAGE user is not going to purchase a UPS strictly for using it to power a phone adapter. Anyone with a semblance of a clue will. UPS technology has been around for long enough and is commonplace enough that all but the most clueless users know of them and their benefits. Couple that with fears of losing phone service in a power outage and most will make the simple connection that VoIP + UPS = success. |
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Cheese
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| said by s13 :said by Cheese :Again, the AVERAGE user is not going to purchase a UPS strictly for using it to power a phone adapter. Anyone with a semblance of a clue will. UPS technology has been around for long enough and is commonplace enough that all but the most clueless users know of them and their benefits. Couple that with fears of losing phone service in a power outage and most will make the simple connection that VoIP + UPS = success. Again, and READ carefully, THE AVERAGE USER IS NOT GOING TO POWER JUST A CABLE MODEM/PHONE ADAPTER, THEY ARE GOING TO PLUG A PC INTO IT, which in turn is going to drain the UPS quicker, and in turn, the phone service will not last as LONG as say a CDV modem  |
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s13
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| said by Cheese :Again, and READ carefully, THE AVERAGE USER IS NOT GOING TO POWER JUST A CABLE MODEM/PHONE ADAPTER, THEY ARE GOING TO PLUG A PC INTO IT, which in turn is going to drain the UPS quicker, and in turn, the phone service will not last as LONG as say a CDV modem Uh huh, and if you didn't have the memory of a goldfish, you'd realize I have been talking about a DEDICATED UPS the whole time. As in DEDICATED to the MODEM and/or NETWORK HARDWARE. As in NOT USED WITH A PC. My 81 year-old grandmother, a longtime Optimum Voice subscriber, was smart enough to figure this out and she's one of the least computer-savvy people I know. If she could do it then the average Vonage customer (who one can assume to be a bit more savvy by default) probably can too. |
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Cheese
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| said by s13 :said by Cheese :Again, and READ carefully, THE AVERAGE USER IS NOT GOING TO POWER JUST A CABLE MODEM/PHONE ADAPTER, THEY ARE GOING TO PLUG A PC INTO IT, which in turn is going to drain the UPS quicker, and in turn, the phone service will not last as LONG as say a CDV modem Uh huh, and if you didn't have the memory of a goldfish, you'd realize I have been talking about a DEDICATED UPS the whole time. As in DEDICATED to the MODEM and/or NETWORK HARDWARE. As in NOT USED WITH A PC. My 81 year-old grandmother, a longtime Optimum Voice subscriber, was smart enough to figure this out and she's one of the least computer-savvy people I know. If she could do it then the average Vonage customer (who one can assume to be a bit more savvy by default) probably can too. |
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